Timelies all!
Gonna run a few errands today, mostly having to do with reading material.(Library, comic book store, etc.) Otherwise, I will be trying to catch up on the DVR.
Buffy: A Guide, but no water or food. So it leads me to the sacred place and then a week later it leads you to my bleached bones? Giles: Buffy, really. It takes more than a week to bleach bones.
'Dirty Girls'
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.
Sheryl - Apr 27, 2013 4:14:34 am PDT #20776 of 30001
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"
Matt the Bruins fan - Apr 27, 2013 4:23:44 am PDT #20777 of 30001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Fingers crossed that all goes as well as possible for your mom, Dana.
Juliebird - Apr 27, 2013 4:47:52 am PDT #20778 of 30001
I am the fly who dreams of the spider
I worked with one guy who was a control freak in the nicest way possible. He would literally triple-check data and if he found a mistake, he would let you know in the most apologetic but helpful way possible. His control-freakiness also manifested in making sure he treated his people right, so even if he didn't take breaks, he made sure we did.
My boss is also this to an extent, telling me to go home after eight hours exactly while she finishes up her twelve hour day.
But she also doesn't trust the ED, or respect his views or judgment (and in some few instances, she is correct) or authority (which, when he breaks out that stick, is not on, EVER), and doesn't know when to say "yes boss" and not act like a brat about it.
Dana - Apr 27, 2013 5:25:40 am PDT #20779 of 30001
I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."
Thanks, everyone. I am not ready to research things yet but I will keep everything in mind
JZ - Apr 27, 2013 5:54:56 am PDT #20780 of 30001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Lots of digits crossed for your mom, Dana, and echoing everyone else that the earlier they catch it the better.
Jesse - Apr 27, 2013 6:00:57 am PDT #20781 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Ooh, good one. Thanks!
-t - Apr 27, 2013 6:10:18 am PDT #20782 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Have a great vacation, Lee! Does this mean you are bringing Bagel (or name TBA) home soon?
I don't think I really have the concept of the "family home" in any meaningful way. We are just not that kind of family. Grandpa's ashes are scattered over his ranch, which we haven't owned for a long time - it was definitely his and not the family's, and Grandma tended to treat real estate as investments.
Ginger - Apr 27, 2013 6:20:34 am PDT #20783 of 30001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Dana, insent to profile addy.
Lee - Apr 27, 2013 7:03:02 am PDT #20784 of 30001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Have a great vacation, Lee! Does this mean you are bringing Bagel (or name TBA) home soon?
Thanks! He is arriving at some point this afternoon.
I'm almost ready for him too! Just need to go get a car seat (did you know they make them for dogs now? and food bowls.
§ ita § - Apr 27, 2013 7:09:39 am PDT #20785 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
You are not being general about control freaks, Julie, but how is it a mark against other people who are either being general about cases which don't match yours, or specific again, about cases that aren't about your boss. The existence (or possible prevalence) of manipulative control freaks is not shocking, surely?
My first boss here was a manic control freak, and I'm sure that's part of why he's no longer here--he played it way wrong. My current boss has tendencies, but it's something he's working against, and his directs are openly working against it by leaving him out of things. In general, in fact, power (and resulting control) is being pushed down the org chart a bit as a company decision.
It's less bad than it was. No, that's not fair. It's better than it was. It wasn't bad, just sub-optimal.