I don't understand enough of the words in your post to properly share your outrage, flea. But I am sympathetically outraged because I trust you.
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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.
-t - Jun 07, 2012 1:49:40 pm PDT #8813 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
flea - Jun 07, 2012 2:02:06 pm PDT #8814 of 30001
information libertarian
Well, GS-15 is the top rank of federal employees, before you get the the level of political appointees. Where mr. flea works, it's a Senior Scientist or Branch Chief position. Whereas the NEH website is important, of course, but it's actually quite a bit less complex than the average University's web presence, I would argue.
Sheryl - Jun 07, 2012 2:02:25 pm PDT #8815 of 30001
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"
Timelies all!
Found out that my uncle has prostate cancer.(My parents told me during our weekly phone call) Don't know the prognosis yet.
Consuela - Jun 07, 2012 2:10:10 pm PDT #8816 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
I saw a job ad for a web manager for the NEH website today. It's a GS-15 and starting pay is $123K. It requires 2 years managing a Drupal site and experience in an academic or similar setting.
That's... really ridiculous. Who do we know who needs a job?
Sheryl, I'm so sorry. I hope it's one of the easily-treated kinds.
le nubian - Jun 07, 2012 2:10:20 pm PDT #8817 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Sheryl,
oh dear! How do they not know the prognosis?
Cass - Jun 07, 2012 2:22:01 pm PDT #8818 of 30001
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
...and that you can tell from the bands he listed as favorites that it was really ghost-written by a 13 year old girl. Essentially.
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So are mine. Really.
But seriously, Rio isn't married to Bob Saget, either. If someone has real health problems and makes a jokey explanation for them, I don't really care.
The lines between code and lies and euphemism and just the way we talk about things to deal with them at all get pretty clouded even without the fact that we all talk textually.
but you don't get to pretend we know each other in a healthy way...fuck off.
You know, this is actually how I feel when TVTropes comes up.
I am sorry, Sheryl.
How do they not know the prognosis?
Speaking as someone with a recently diagnosed cancer patient in the family? Pretty easily. Especially early on. It's really more art than science. A good and scientific art, but art.
In things that matter to no one but me, there is an up and coming racing driver named Victor Carbone and (I think) because Nestor Carbonell played a character named Victor in Ringer, I picture him. The kid kinda looks like him too. Which makes it no less confusing.
-t - Jun 07, 2012 2:24:23 pm PDT #8819 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I'm sorry, Sheryl. Health~ma.
le nubian - Jun 07, 2012 2:34:03 pm PDT #8820 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Thanks Cass. That's frustrating.
Jesse - Jun 07, 2012 2:43:07 pm PDT #8821 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
And someone can know something, without the information dissemination through the family, too.
lisah - Jun 07, 2012 2:49:56 pm PDT #8822 of 30001
Punishingly Intricate
So sorry, Sheryl.
One of Bob's closest friends had a girlfriend of many years who was pretty messed up in a lot of ways and who died a couple of years ago. I think he knew some of the story before she died but after she died it came out that she had multiple fake online personalities in a bunch of different forums. I'm not sure of all the details but there were people who felt pretty close to fake versions of this person. He ended up having to figure out how to let them know that the real person behind the faker was really dead. Sad stuff.