Sorry, Suela.
Although, speaking of databases, someone in our IT department finally fixed a database issue that has meant I haven't been able to submit a support ticket in years, if ever. I love our IT department. I mean, granted, several other people tried to fix this in the past, but the two guys I talked to this week (for a couple of different things) were so nice and helpful! Even though they coudn't see my full screen.
Suela, I had no idea you and I worked for the same people. Clearly we should plan ourselves a 3-martini lunch someday.
Oh, geez. The American Horror Story rubber man will totally be a thing this year, won't it?
A's win! A's win! They take the West!!! BOUNCE BOUNCE BOUNCE.
::tosses green and gold confetti all over the place::
BOUNCE BOUNCE BOUNCE BOUNCE BOUNCE!!!!!!!!!!
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Are Jem and the Holograms making a comeback?
(Relatedly, in high school chemistry [so, uh, 26 years ago, HOLY CRAP], one of my friends made a periodic table joke about Jem and the Halogens, and that is how I always think of Jem and her band, ever since then. I mean that when I asked the question above, the first thing I typed was "Jem and the Halogens," and it looked totally normal to me.)
You ever spend a lot of time and energy pulling something together, and badgering people for information--just to realize that nobody actually cares if you have updated all that information in a much cleaner and more accurate database?
Yeah. Or editing something. No one cares if the commas are in the right place.
Or they care TOO much -- don't get me started on the woman who gave me a lecture about how their department doesn't use the serial comma, when the stuff they had given me was riddled with them. RIDDLED.
The people who are supposed to maintain this information don't. I get better data from fansites than I do from our own staff. It's ridiculous.
Also, GO As! Yay!
You ever spend a lot of time and energy pulling something together, and badgering people for information--just to realize that nobody actually cares if you have updated all that information in a much cleaner and more accurate database?
With me it's usually people not remembering or caring that I have access to cleaner, quicker and more accurate databases,