Sparky, you already know how I feel about this. If I was inclined to have ever given any kind of money to them, this cured me of it. Too bad I didn't, so I could take my endowment, flounce off and go home.
Fred: It's the pictures in my mind that are getting me. It's like being stuck in a really bad movie with those Clockwork Orange clampy things on my eyeballs. Wesley: Why imagine? Reality's disturbing enough.
'Shells'
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.
Maria - Dec 05, 2012 7:33:06 am PST #3244 of 30001
Not so nice is that I'm about to ruin a Friday morning for a bunch of people because of a series of unfortunate events and an upset foreign government. - shrift
§ ita § - Dec 05, 2012 7:40:27 am PST #3245 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
We have self-evaluation due next Friday. Thanks for the notice! No one is scrabbling desperately at the last minute to finish projects, and I just realised I have a mandatory certification (minor) to complete by tomorrow.
Sparky, that's entirely miserable.
le nubian - Dec 05, 2012 7:41:07 am PST #3246 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Sparky,
I really hope things end up okay for you. but regardless it sounds like your work environment will be under significant strain. Ugh.
Steph L. - Dec 05, 2012 7:44:04 am PST #3247 of 30001
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Jessica - Dec 05, 2012 7:44:58 am PST #3248 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
17 photos of capybaras relaxing in Japanese hot springs
There is literally nothing about this that is not awesome.
Sparky1 - Dec 05, 2012 7:46:20 am PST #3249 of 30001
Librarian Warlord
Maria, if you'd call them up and tell them you're interested in giving a heap of money, and then pull the rug out from under them after you'd strung them along for a while . . . I might laugh.
I've told everyone I supervise that if they need to get the hell out of here and find someplace where it is easier to breath the code words are "I'm going to the stacks to do research" and I will give them cover if anyone comes looking. I actually had a week's warning and saw a draft of the letter, but it still made my heart stop, so I can't imagine what it is doing to the people who got it as a surprise today.
Nora Deirdre - Dec 05, 2012 7:47:41 am PST #3250 of 30001
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)
17 photos of capybaras relaxing in Japanese hot springs
They look so smug! Love it.
Consuela - Dec 05, 2012 7:49:59 am PST #3251 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
I wore all black today: my new black Banana Republic dress, black boots, black cashmere sweater. I'm in prospective mourning for my job. And my free time.
Maria - Dec 05, 2012 7:52:26 am PST #3252 of 30001
Not so nice is that I'm about to ruin a Friday morning for a bunch of people because of a series of unfortunate events and an upset foreign government. - shrift
I might laugh.
I would definitely laugh. Especially if I insisted that the gift was contingent on allowing pro-choice guest speakers when the topic has nothing to do with abortion.
Fred Pete - Dec 05, 2012 7:58:42 am PST #3253 of 30001
Ann, that's a ferret.
Egad, Sparky. Non~cut~ma for you.