people who prefer to call or email me about my bosses' availability rather than just attempting to schedule a meeting and seeing their available time MAKE ME CRAZY
See, when everyone's time is precious, and the real answer is "I'll see what I can move around" I often have to find their admin or call and talk to them before scheduling. Often I have to call their admin and ask them to call the other relevant admins to negotiate a time.
And some people don't have admins, so I can't invite them to anything without telling them I need them to come to a meeting--but somehow time always shows up. And, say, on a day that looks all booked out, they still do spend a fair amount of time at their desk, not on the phone.
I do get preserving some time for yourself, especially at either end of the day, or lunch, but if you're basically blocking out 9-5 every day, you're breaking the point of calendaring.
I don't have any candy except the candy that came home from tour. Which I don't eat. So if we get any trick or treaters, they'll get dum dums. But we won't.
I kinda miss being in the neighborhood where we got, like, eight billion kids. But it's cheaper this way.
At most, I get two trick-or-treaters, but I feel I must have candy for them. I'm buying it today, though. It calls my name too loudly to buy early.
4 hour commute this morning, woo. Tomorrow, I either take the express bus (which might still take 4 hours, but I can sleep or text if I want to) or stay home.
The last time it took me this long to get to/from work was during the transit strike. Fun times, people, fun times.
Downtown Manhattan is eerily dark and empty. Or rather, not empty, because people are out on the streets, but since there's no electricity no businesses are open. The first traffic signal I saw this morning was at 28th St.
Um... huh.
Fembot costume includes smoking nipples - Hack a Day
The greatest of Halloween costumes start with an idea, but they’ve also got to have strong execution to pull the whole thing off. This year [Johanna Jenkins] decided to put together a Fembot Halloween costume which is a wonderful example of this concept. Going as a Fembot from Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery sounds like a lot of fun right off the bat, but a bit of work at the sewing machine and access to a wig shop in Hollywood really brought it to the next level. But [Johanna] didn’t stop at that. The Fembots have machine guns in their bras. After they’ve torn through all of their ammo they’re left with smoking barrels as nipples, and that final touch even made it into the costume. In the video after the break you can see [Johanna] showing off the small battery operated fog system she piped into the costume bra.
I am impressed.
wow Jessica - 4 hours is ROUGH. glad you got in ok though.
Yikes, Jessica. It must be weird.
So Jessica, you essentially got to the office just in time for lunch, right?
Oh hush. people are just trying to throw you off their scent.
