Totally good present, Steph.
Mal: Well, look at this! Appears we got here just in the nick of time. What does that make us? Zoe: Big damn heroes, sir.
'Safe'
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.
brenda m - Dec 11, 2012 5:10:32 am PST #3914 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
lisah - Dec 11, 2012 5:13:03 am PST #3915 of 30001
Punishingly Intricate
Happy late bday, Consuela! New bikey!!!
JZ - Dec 11, 2012 5:15:51 am PST #3916 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.
Jessica, AH HA HA, with a side of bitter tears. If this thing doesn't end up on Shakesville as today's "This Is So The Worst Thing You're Going To Read All Day," I shall be severely disappointed.
Lee - Dec 11, 2012 5:28:07 am PST #3917 of 30001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
In what is wrong with people news, last night when I went to bed, I had a cheap version of this [link] on my lawn, but this morning it's not there anymore.
Amy - Dec 11, 2012 5:34:46 am PST #3918 of 30001
Because books.
That really sucks, Lee. Stealing holiday decorations is just really low.
Good luck today, brenda.
meara - Dec 11, 2012 5:37:31 am PST #3919 of 30001
Brenda that sounds awful! I hope you have someone with a key who can let you in. And that the project is easier to fix than you thought.
I am so sleepy. I shouldn't be, but I tossed and turned all night.
erikaj - Dec 11, 2012 6:01:35 am PST #3920 of 30001
Always Anti-fascist!
Don't know, JZ, click bait? I mean, if you click it cause you hate it, still traffic.
Consuela - Dec 11, 2012 6:18:02 am PST #3921 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Don't know, JZ, click bait? I mean, if you click it cause you hate it, still traffic.
Yup. The Atlantic is getting Slate-ified. So disappointing.
Thanks for all the birthday wishes, folks! And I get to continue celebrating because my flowers are in my office and they're lovely. And I'm meeting my niece for lunch--she gets back from her semester in Chile today!
On the down side, I scheduled at teleconference for tomorrow at 2 PM, except tomorrow is the holiday party, which is off-site. I don't really want to miss it, but I hate rescheduling the meeting at this late date (we set the date two months ago!). Sigh.
§ ita § - Dec 11, 2012 6:18:45 am PST #3922 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
One of the guys on our midwestern team asked me and one developer if we're getting something for our manager.
I forgot to answer. The developer did, enthusiastically. I have never bought a boss/manager Christmas gifts (I'm back from JA gifts, but usually the whole team gets those) and only one boss (guy who was fired from here) gave us gifts, and they were along the line of Steph's--his wife made salsa, and there were handmade labels--so you're not getting a sense of huge amounts of money, just more personal gestures.
Why not ask the whole team? I am confused. I'm not giving my manager a gift that doesn't come from anyone else in the LA group. God, just the asskissingness aspect of that makes me shudder. And they already think, apparently, that I'm a bit forward with the executives.
Consuela - Dec 11, 2012 6:24:14 am PST #3923 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
if we're getting something for our manager
In the work environment, gifts should flow downwards, not upwards. People shouldn't be giving presents to their supervisors, it leads to perceptions of influence. In fact, that's a rule in the federal system: supervisors can give gifts, but gifts to supervisors are either forbidden or very limited.
Also, it's just unfair to expect someone making less money to be giving presents to someone making more.