happy b-day beth and bonny!
Book: Afraid I might be needing a preacher. Mal: That's good. You lie there and be ironical.
'Safe'
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.
le nubian - Apr 18, 2012 11:27:55 am PDT #1517 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Allyson - Apr 18, 2012 11:29:18 am PDT #1518 of 30001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
I have an interview on Monday for a job I'm qualified to do, but it requires a polished sort of person.
I don't think I'll get it, and will likely humiliate myself in some way during the interview, but hey, they called me, right?
Connie Neil - Apr 18, 2012 11:37:47 am PDT #1519 of 30001
brillig
When I heard Dick Clark had died I thought, "So that's where Cheney got his heart from."
Fred Pete - Apr 18, 2012 11:39:35 am PDT #1520 of 30001
Ann, that's a ferret.
Happy Birthdays, beth and bonny!
Hands up: how many people thought he was already dead?
I saw him do a cameo on last year's New Year's Rockin' Eve. He looked and sounded like death warmed over -- like he'd had a stroke and recovered only 85-90% of his speech ability.
msbelle - Apr 18, 2012 11:43:24 am PDT #1521 of 30001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
yeah since the stroke Dick Clark's age was rerally obvious.
sad though.
Ginger - Apr 18, 2012 11:44:33 am PDT #1522 of 30001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
I knew Dick Clark could be propped up and could make somewhat understandable sounds, because they propped him up for about 10 minutes New Year's Eve. It was pathetic.
I wonder if they found the painting in the closet.
Jesse - Apr 18, 2012 11:44:48 am PDT #1523 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
like he'd had a stroke and recovered only 85-90% of his speech ability.
That is what happened, several years ago. Maybe as many as 10?
I am annoyed by how many people I have to tell things here -- no one talks to each other, apparently. So telling the boss and most-directly-related person a piece of news does not mean that the news will get to another interested person. @@
flea - Apr 18, 2012 11:53:14 am PDT #1524 of 30001
information libertarian
What is Junior Achievement? They seem to come to my kids' school all the damn time and as far as I can see it's some capitalist indoctrination gig. Am I wrong?
Also, we got a letter from a realtor in GA whom we don't know, with a printout of the MLS listing for our house marked up in red, and his business card, and "I know why your house didn't sell. Call me." This is asshole behavior, right? He's trying to poach us as clients? Should I tell our existing realtor? Or call him up, as him why he thinks the house hasn't sold, and then ream him a new one?
Jesse - Apr 18, 2012 11:54:53 am PDT #1525 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
What is Junior Achievement? They seem to come to my kids' school all the damn time and as far as I can see it's some capitalist indoctrination gig. Am I wrong?
You are not wrong.
And the realtor thing does sound like shitty business development, but I don't actually know.
Consuela - Apr 18, 2012 11:55:21 am PDT #1526 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
I don't think I'll get it, and will likely humiliate myself in some way during the interview, but hey, they called me, right?
Allyson, perhaps you should instead consider that the hiring team knows what they want, and have decided that you are qualified for the position. If you weren't qualified, they wouldn't have called you: they simply don't know if you're the most qualified.
Shooting yourself down in advance is pretty much guaranteeing you won't get the job, and that's fair to neither yourself nor the people going to the trouble of interviewing you.
And why should you assume you'd humiliate yourself? You are a competent, funny, professional woman. Give yourself a chance.