There may have been someone yelling, "You can't measure and dump ingredients?" It may have been me.
Love this.
Now, I can hold a note for a long time...actually I can hold a note forever. But eventually that's just noise. It's the change we're listening for. The note coming after, and the one after that. That's what makes it music.
Host ,'Why We Fight'
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.
Jessica - Dec 11, 2012 9:57:52 am PST #3968 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
§ ita § - Dec 11, 2012 9:58:07 am PST #3969 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
GET OFF THE INTERNET, JESSE.
We will see you after business has closed.
Just had my first 1:1 in forever, and apparently the official word from the boss is: fewer details. And his side of the bargain is: fewer agitated demands for details. My fingers are crossed that this works out--it makes sense. My boss that got fired wasn't replaced by this guy. This guy was fired boss's boss. We're missing a person between my manager and my boss, and there's no way he can handle as much as he asks for and we need to stop throwing it at him.
Kind of a shame, because my auto-debrief-on-encounter really had my projects going more smoothly for a while--he wasn't surprised, and everything was calm.
But we do also have explicit permission from our manager to escalate beyond her if she's not giving us what we feel we need, so that's good, at least on paper.
We have to do year end self-evals by the end of the week, which is Thursday morning for me. Yikes! But they sent out the recognition award summary yesterday, and I got two. I have no idea for what, though, because no one told my manager, and it wasn't her. I need that info before I send in my self-eval. Belying the "self" part of that.
Jesse - Dec 11, 2012 10:03:20 am PST #3970 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
GET OFF THE INTERNET, JESSE.
We will see you after business has closed.
I can't do anything! I need the stuff from the other people! wah wah wah.
Kat - Dec 11, 2012 10:14:42 am PST #3971 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
I think Jesse should stay on the internet and amuse me! Because I really should get off the internet and grade papers.
-t - Dec 11, 2012 10:18:16 am PST #3972 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I don't recall any recent random acts of kindness. I haven't been out amongst the humans much.
I am right now though. At the Soc Sec office to get a replacement card. Whee?
§ ita § - Dec 11, 2012 10:21:51 am PST #3973 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I am getting off the internet to have my hair shorn in my lunch break.
Maybe my award will be explained by the time I return, or more likely I will have amassed replies from commenters defending that guy's reporting. IO9 was never great with science. Now they're indefensibly laughable. That's not hard to understand, is it?
Jesse - Dec 11, 2012 10:29:48 am PST #3974 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I can't even be amusing, because all I can think is, "fuuuuuuuucccckkkkk."
brenda m - Dec 11, 2012 10:39:10 am PST #3975 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
Oh man, here goes. Awful feeling, even if what I'm doing is totally justified and necessary.
-t - Dec 11, 2012 10:43:02 am PST #3976 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
That's rough, brenda. Get through it.
SSA was unexpectedly quick and painless! Just getting a replacement card, but I can remember taking all day to do that.
I decided to dress professionally today since I now have a professional wardrobe, and it seems to be making me more productive. I wonder how long that will last.
erikaj - Dec 11, 2012 10:46:26 am PST #3977 of 30001
Always Anti-fascist!
Sometimes I think it's because journalism, at least as it's practiced most often currently, and science have such different time frames and goals. The 24-hour-news cycle demands entertaining and provocative little knowledge nuggets, especially anything about men vs. women, sex....so a minor difference in the brain is always breathlessly reported as "Are men naturally smarter?" or "are women naturally more gifted at picking crap off the bedroom floor?"(The answers are usually yes, until next week's "groundbreaking" something or other proving the opposite.)