I cannot read that NYTimes article.
No, you shouldn't.
Jilli! I have a co-worker that wants my arc reactor shirt. It's a lot of fun to tell her she'll never have it.
Hee! That makes me very smug.
Well, quite a lot of fuss. If I didn't know better, I'd think we were dangerous.
Mal ,'Bushwhacked'
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.
Atropa - May 14, 2012 1:30:42 pm PDT #5013 of 30001
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Scrappy - May 14, 2012 2:28:51 pm PDT #5014 of 30001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
That makes me very smug.
AS YOU SHOULD BE.
Vortex - May 14, 2012 2:49:52 pm PDT #5015 of 30001
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
I wish that show had been on cable, and could have lasted. It was entertaining! If not very good.
Yes. I think that the problem was that they wanted to be Mr & Mrs. Smith, but ended up being Scarecrow and Mrs. King.
Sophia Brooks - May 14, 2012 2:52:41 pm PDT #5016 of 30001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
I was home sick today and I watched all six episodes of Scandal. I love the actor who plays the newspaper reporter, but things never seem to go well for him.
I am also being driven slowly mad by a humming and beeping noise. The service station next door had to install some sort of pump or monitor or something, and they put it in a metal shed. All winter it has been humming which I could not hear with the windows closed, but as annoying outside. Now there is also a high pitched ringing/beeping. I feel like my brain is about to explode, and there are three apartment houses between me and this shed.
Ginger - May 14, 2012 3:19:38 pm PDT #5017 of 30001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
I think that the problem was that they wanted to be Mr & Mrs. Smith, but ended up being Scarecrow and Mrs. King.
Except not as good.
dcp - May 14, 2012 3:42:37 pm PDT #5018 of 30001
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.
Oy. RIF at work today, and I am in the grip of survivor's guilt.
My department was decimated; three are gone. One person left voluntarily for the severance package. The other two losses were mandated by budget cuts, and with their departure the company has deprived itself of its most experienced, knowledgeable, skilled, and level-headed people. Both are older than I, and primary support for their families.
I'm not actually safe. There may well be further cuts this week. Right now I don't know if I want to stay or go, but it is too late for me leaving to save one of my friends his job.
Scrappy - May 14, 2012 3:51:39 pm PDT #5019 of 30001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Oh jeez, that's tough. Hard on the RIF'ed and hard on those left.
sarameg - May 14, 2012 4:18:38 pm PDT #5020 of 30001
Aw, man, dcp. Take care of yourself.
Baltimore's ACS just came out. Fascinating stuff on the changes in my neighborhood (designated the Waverlies. It's actually a rather odd boundary. If I were drawing the lines, would be a little different and some of the demographs would be ...different.) And now I can't find the link nor how I got it...
..I just was asked the backstory of Kosovo. Mental whiplash. I read and wrote so much about the whole Yugo collapse in the 90s that I wished I had a 'fmr' key on my keyboard. My brother was part of KFOR stationed in Macedonia (hey, where DID my Skopje plate go??) I have a ridiculous number of books on the subject, And yet, for a moment I was all DER.
§ ita § - May 14, 2012 5:04:52 pm PDT #5021 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
dcp, I'm kinda glad you don't have to face the option of taking a hit to save someone else's job. Not a easy decision to make.
It's kinda weird having a twitch I can't see. But I can certainly feel my muscles fluttering over the scapula.
msbelle - May 14, 2012 5:08:28 pm PDT #5022 of 30001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
omg hate everything and this is with mac behaving today (not really helping much at all, but behaving). 6:30 til now, only real break was lunch and that was rushed so I could make a meeting that I was unprepared for because it got moved up 2 hours. Cat has peed on stuff the last 3 days, dog is still here, I have like 5 more things I need to get done tonight and make mac's lunch for tomorrow. I am dead tired and my parents keep asking about stuff I have not done and managing to make me feel like a complete failure for my lack of it.