They should film that story and show it every Christmas.

Xander ,'Same Time, Same Place'


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.


Steph L. - Apr 13, 2012 11:21:34 am PDT #843 of 30001
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe

our turnaround time, from receiving a manuscript for publication to actual final-form publication, will go from 6 weeks to 3 weeks.

WHAT.

She said airly that "all the time lost will be on the conversion vendors' side; they would be required to get papers back to us sooner. So we won't be affected."

Oh my god, you really DO work for my company. How does the magic "they will be required" even WORK? Just saying it doesn't make it possible.


Steph L. - Apr 13, 2012 11:23:21 am PDT #844 of 30001
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe

3 weeks for conversion to our format

I'm curious about this, though. We just get Word docs in and edit in the Word files.

(Our acceptance-to-publication time, BTW, is about 3-4 months. And we keep accepting ever larger numbers of papers, which just makes that time longer and longer. Makes us look AWESOME, let me tell you.)


msbelle - Apr 13, 2012 11:28:49 am PDT #845 of 30001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

omg, drama chick at work is now having major drama on the phone loud enough for me to hear about paying a toll fee late. Jesusita. I feel for the operator.


Liese S. - Apr 13, 2012 11:36:36 am PDT #846 of 30001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

Okay, I did my one thing!


Strix - Apr 13, 2012 11:41:44 am PDT #847 of 30001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger

I have done several things! Go me!

And I will head to yoga with a girlfriend shortly, come back and edit some more, and then this weekend is Cabin in the Woods, fnacy ice cream (anniversary movie and ice cream, since our anniversary day was a work night) and hanging out with friends tomorrow night, including a good friend who now lives in Chicago (we FINALLY get to see her 2nd child, a daughter, who is almost a year old now.)

And then...TAXES. KHAAAAANNNNN!


Ginger - Apr 13, 2012 11:41:48 am PDT #848 of 30001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda

our turnaround time, from receiving a manuscript for publication to actual final-form publication, will go from 6 weeks to 3 weeks.

WTF? Are they counting on a wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey thing?


sumi - Apr 13, 2012 11:42:48 am PDT #849 of 30001
Art Crawl!!!

Man, I've done a number of things including calling everyone who needed to sign up for interviews next week. (Student committee leader type positions) Still have tons of stuff. . . mostly art collection related.


msbelle - Apr 13, 2012 11:43:32 am PDT #850 of 30001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

I cleared off one pile and then de-cluttered 3 of 4 boxes sitting in front of my desk.


Liese S. - Apr 13, 2012 11:45:30 am PDT #851 of 30001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

My next one thing is a bitch. I'd rather declutter.


shrift - Apr 13, 2012 11:49:16 am PDT #852 of 30001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty

I think I'm not going to bring my work laptop home with me this weekend even though there's always busywork I could do while watching Netflix.

I need to buy new walking shoes. And more Hawaiian rum while I'm at it, since the store is down the street from DSW.

And because I need to spring clean my closet, perhaps I'll do some more unfucking: [link]