Ooh, good one. Thanks!
Am I supposed to be changing my clothes a lot? Is that the helpful thing to do?
Anya ,'Storyteller'
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.
Jesse - Apr 27, 2013 6:00:57 am PDT #20781 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
-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.
-t - Apr 27, 2013 7:20:03 am PDT #20786 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Yay being almost ready for dog's imminent arrival!
I have put on my cranky bloomers (thank you Jilli for making these available!) and my SF2F T-shirt, flying the b.org flag pretty high today. While I sit on my couch or possibly in my backyard, but still.
meara - Apr 27, 2013 7:34:12 am PDT #20787 of 30001
I agree that more of you should move to the northwest. Maybe Seattle instead of Portland. We have more jobs.
Sarameg, he has an accent? That almost counts as being in a foreign country for you, r it should...
Dana I'm so sorry. But you're closer geographically to her now than you were, right? And what everyone else said--early stage is usually very curable.
lisah - Apr 27, 2013 7:42:43 am PDT #20788 of 30001
Punishingly Intricate
Yay dog for Lee!!!!
Amy - Apr 27, 2013 7:53:58 am PDT #20789 of 30001
Because books.
Welcome, Lee's new dog!
While I sit on my couch or possibly in my backyard, but still.
As a true Buffista does.
Zenkitty - Apr 27, 2013 8:15:04 am PDT #20790 of 30001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
Dana, I'm sorry, and much ~ma to both of you.
Today in an effort to stop being a hermit, I'm going to a "meetup" with other local movie fans to watch Serenity at someone's house. I don't know any of them. The social anxiety is topping the charts, here. But if I back out now, it means I took a space that someone else might have wanted and didn't use it, and that would make me feel bad, so I have to go. I'm feeling especially old and ugly and fat and unlovable today, and would prefer to hide in my den, but I'm going to put on real clothes and go. Maybe I'll meet someone I can be friends with. Maybe it'll be an uncomfortable disaster. We'll see.