Yeah, I could do that, but I'm paralyzed with not caring very much.

Spike ,'Showtime'


Natter 71: Someone is wrong on the Internet  

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.


Consuela - Feb 15, 2013 9:21:20 am PST #11469 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

THINGS NOT TO TELL YOUR MOTHER

There's a sub-category of Things You Told Your Mother and She Forgot, which is even more fraught. The other night Dad called me and put her on the phone so she could yell at me for selling their condo without telling her about it. Fun times!

IONallaboutme, I just learned that the period of performance for my contract is up at the end of this month, although there's enough money to keep it going for another six or eight weeks. But between that and the looming sequestration/furloughs/hiring freeze, even if they do want to hire me, they may not be able to. Joy.


Theodosia - Feb 15, 2013 9:25:35 am PST #11470 of 30001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"

Good lord, Consuela. I am aghast.


Amy - Feb 15, 2013 9:27:13 am PST #11471 of 30001
Because books.

Jesus, Consuela. I'm sorry.


§ ita § - Feb 15, 2013 9:28:55 am PST #11472 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

The other night Dad called me and put her on the phone so she could yell at me for selling their condo without telling her about it.

First line of defence failed here. Yikes. But more yikes about the lovely morass of rules regs and requirements that make doing your job harder than not.


aurelia - Feb 15, 2013 9:38:25 am PST #11473 of 30001
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.

I don't know what to make of the paintings, but this is what struck me:

Correspondence obtained by the hacker indicates that at least six separate e-mail accounts have been compromised, including the AOL account of Dorothy Bush Koch, daughter of George H.W. Bush and sister of George W. Bush.

Koch? As in *that* Koch family? How did I not know this?


le nubian - Feb 15, 2013 9:39:15 am PST #11474 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

Consuela,

I read your post and literally put my head in my hands right afterward.


Tom Scola - Feb 15, 2013 9:46:16 am PST #11475 of 30001
hwæt

Koch? As in *that* Koch family?

No.

You do know about Lauren Lauren, right?


Consuela - Feb 15, 2013 9:51:45 am PST #11476 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

I read your post and literally put my head in my hands right afterward.

Thanks. I just... I hate to use tumblr-speak, but I can't even. It's just so frakking ridiculous.

I do think they should be able to extend the period of performance, but if there's an indefinite hiring freeze as a result of sequestration I don't know what to do.


Kate P. - Feb 15, 2013 9:56:13 am PST #11477 of 30001
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love

'Suela, I think you should just ask if you're being punked. Because it's starting to seem like the only possibility.


Burrell - Feb 15, 2013 10:00:08 am PST #11478 of 30001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!

I really wish that the articles just mentioned the paintings and the hacking and didn't go into detail about the emails back and forth about GHWB. That feels like such an invasion of privacy to me.