Woe is me. My onerous task is to figure out how to spend the last 24 hours in Cairns.
What? She killed 'em with mathematics. What else could it have been?
Jayne ,'Objects In Space'
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.
sarameg - Nov 16, 2012 10:39:42 am PST #1168 of 30001
-t - Nov 16, 2012 10:43:53 am PST #1169 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I have also sorted out my Open Enrollment! And assorted other overdue tasks. And started making soup, which isn't really onerous except that it makes me hungry all day to smell it cooking.
Oh, crap, missed a bill, not done with that task yet...
meara - Nov 16, 2012 10:47:40 am PST #1170 of 30001
What kind of dog weighs 250 pounds?!?
I am just trying to get regular work done, as I have been all week. Hoping to finish up today with some training stuff and prep for next week's travel, and if my boss gets back to me, revising a report. But mostly looking forward to the weekend.
I think most of my overdue/onerous tasks at the moment are not going to be tackled today--I want to refi my house, and hire someone to garden/landscape/bomb and destroy my yard. But am not even sure where to start on either of those (and on the latter, not sure how much I'm willing to spend)
§ ita § - Nov 16, 2012 10:50:33 am PST #1171 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Two things are pissing me off right now: Tumblr technical support telling me to uninstall a number of add-ons I don't have installed, in a really pedantic and condescending way, and refusing to believe me when I said they weren't installed until I showed them the screens that said "nothing installed" and now their suggestion for why their site is giving me contradictory errors is to change browsers. "Here are free links for Chrome and Firefox". Well, thanks for saving me from the Opera moneypit! They're also entirely ignoring me on another issue, and I just want them to respond to me to say they won't fix it, so I know what the silence means.
And also people on IO9 are telling me that Hollywood doesn't have "minority" casting issues--either the casting is representative of reality (oh, right, women, that does suck, maybe), or my favourite "sometimes people who are better at the job or perceived by the audience to be better at the job are going to get it." Him I told we were done talking.
shrift - Nov 16, 2012 10:50:43 am PST #1172 of 30001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
I want a pony.
Well, I was going to make an eye appointment, but now I'm looking for a new optometrist.
brenda m - Nov 16, 2012 10:53:47 am PST #1173 of 30001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Big slobbery mastiff named Leah.
Consuela - Nov 16, 2012 10:56:25 am PST #1174 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
My onerous task of the day is to get a bid from the movers for my folks' move. And probably make them dinner.
Jessica - Nov 16, 2012 11:03:22 am PST #1175 of 30001
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
"sometimes people who are better at the job or perceived by the audience to be better at the job are going to get it."
Isn't this just a really shitty way of saying "Hollywood isn't racist, everyone is racist!"?
meara - Nov 16, 2012 11:17:20 am PST #1176 of 30001
perceived by the audience to be better at the job are going to get it.
Well, sure, if by "minority casting issues" you don't actually mean RACISM. Duh.
§ ita § - Nov 16, 2012 11:20:41 am PST #1177 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
It's pretty much "They're racist, and I'm okay with that."
THEN WHY ARE WE TALKING??
You don't get to say you're not racist after that. I'm ignoring you.