Oh, no, Dana.
I would still go, layoffs be damned, but that's my family.
There's more than one way to skin a cat. And I happen to know that's factually true.
Mayor ,'Lies My Parents Told Me'
Natter 70: Hookers and Blow
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Liese S. - Jun 21, 2012 4:54:23 pm PDT #10739 of 30001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Sheryl - Jun 21, 2012 4:57:17 pm PDT #10740 of 30001
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"
I'm sorry, Dana.
Dana - Jun 21, 2012 4:59:43 pm PDT #10741 of 30001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
I would go too, and have choice words for anyone who suggested I shouldn't go, but it's his family, so.
Atropa - Jun 21, 2012 5:00:43 pm PDT #10742 of 30001
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Dana, I am so sorry.
OMG, my Batman leather jacket arrived.
I cannot WAIT to see pictures of you in it. Eeee!
Goals? I actually do have them, am working toward them, and simultaneously feel like OMG THIS IS HAAAARD and OMG I AM A SLACKER AND NOT PUTTING ENOUGH EFFORT INTO THIS, TRY HARDER.
§ ita § - Jun 21, 2012 5:00:54 pm PDT #10743 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Have you defeated Laurence Fishburne yet?
I know kung fu?
Liese S. - Jun 21, 2012 5:02:30 pm PDT #10744 of 30001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
but it's his family, so
Yeah, exactly. This is so totally up to him and them.
Steph L. - Jun 21, 2012 5:12:36 pm PDT #10745 of 30001
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Dana, what a sad clusterfuck. I'm so sorry.
Hey, did you hear about this copy editor who died a millionaire? [link]
My hero!
§ ita § - Jun 21, 2012 5:40:40 pm PDT #10746 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
My sister went to Cambridge. Twice. I feel this is a problem in our relationship. I never visited her there. I've never been to Cambridge, period. I have no independent idea what that part of her life was like. I mean, she knows a lot of things I don't know. Like the stuff she was studying when she was there. But I feel jealous that I don't know the life parts.
Part of me thinks that if I'd chosen Oxford over McGill, then I'd totally get it. But then...I wouldn't understand her McGill life. Like, I got to live that part and purloin her friends.
So there's no fixing that.
I HADN'T REALISED I WAS JEALOUS SHE WENT OFF TO SCHOOL WITHOUT ME.
This a radically emotionally stunted reaction to be actually having. And, honestly, if you watch Supernatural, don't say it. I get it. But she just sent me an email about an Oxbridge-generated response she's having to something and I have no fucking clue what she's talking about. This is not par for our course.
le nubian - Jun 21, 2012 5:56:57 pm PDT #10747 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Oh Dana. I'm sorry.
Zenkitty - Jun 21, 2012 6:06:27 pm PDT #10748 of 30001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
Dana, I'm so sorry. That's just adding injury to insult.
That makes three developers in the past couple years that would rather say "yes" than work out if "yes" means they're agreeing with me. It's really kind of creepy, but I wonder if it's an ESL defense mechanism where they're behind in the translation and are trying to buy time or something.
I've worked with a couple ESL people who would always say "yes" no matter what. Apparently it would be impolite to say "no"? I'm working with a conference-issue editor right now who's been politely not saying no for four weeks, and finally I've realize that he simply has no intention of providing the thing I've been asking him for. In retrospect, it's kind of impressive how he's managed to never just tell me he's not going to do it.