Jobma to Consuela!!
Am I supposed to be changing my clothes a lot? Is that the helpful thing to do?
Anya ,'Storyteller'
Natter 72: We Were Unprepared for This
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.
Tom Scola - Nov 25, 2013 11:13:58 am PST #12901 of 30000
They pay me in WOIMS
shrift - Nov 25, 2013 11:14:15 am PST #12902 of 30000
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
Woo, there's nothing like being the only subject-matter expert who isn't on vacation this week.
Consuela - Nov 25, 2013 11:46:41 am PST #12903 of 30000
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Well, it was just a screening interview with a recruiter. Went okay. Guess I'll hear something in a week or so, if they want to bring me in to talk to a hiring manager.
Bah.
t kicks ground
Connie Neil - Nov 25, 2013 12:18:14 pm PST #12904 of 30000
brillig
It is the time of bliss in MyCompany Tech Support--time to breathe between calls, actual lunch hours, good odds of getting off at the scheduled quitting time. The extra stuff to keep track of is up to date, not quite so many catastrophes in the land.
From here until January is my favorite time of year.
Consuela - Nov 25, 2013 12:25:55 pm PST #12905 of 30000
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Sheryl - Nov 25, 2013 12:27:46 pm PST #12906 of 30000
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"
Timelies all!
Going to a concert tonight. I've never seen or heard this performer, but a friend of ours in AZ has apparently raved about him, so here we go.
beth b - Nov 25, 2013 12:52:15 pm PST #12907 of 30000
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
Job ma all around
JZ - Nov 25, 2013 1:20:17 pm PST #12908 of 30000
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Seconding the job~ma.
Also, holy God, will this day never end?
And it's about to get longer because I have to step away from FB, because more (non-Buffista) friends are being distressing. This time over whether Katy Perry was doing geisha drag last night and whether, if she was, it was offensive or not.
The general consensus on which, including among people of whom I thought better, is: "Of course not! It's beautiful artistry! People are just looking to be offended! If you're right, then obviously I have the right to be offended every time a Japanese person wears jeans! My dad's buddy in the service brought me back a wee kimono when I was four, so that made me a TODDLER RACIST, right? OMG, I'm mixed-race, so now I have to quit Dickens Fair because I'm appropriating, right? Why are people so sensitive about nothing? IT WAS JUST PRETTY GET OFF MY BACK STOP RUINING EVERYTHING PRETTY YOU RUINERS." O, for a bingo card.
I also feel guilty because there are two other people trying gingerly to push back against it all, and I feel like I'm abandoning them by stepping away, but I just can't even.
le nubian - Nov 25, 2013 1:25:21 pm PST #12909 of 30000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
JZ,
all this is made worse by KP in an interview [link] saying (jokingly, but in WAY WAY poor taste)
“I am obsessed with Japanese people,” Perry said. “I love everything about them and they are so wonderful as human beings.”
But then she took it up a notch.
“I’m so obsessed I want to skin you and wear you like Versace,”
Connie Neil - Nov 25, 2013 1:27:24 pm PST #12910 of 30000
brillig
I'm mixed-race, so now I have to quit Dickens Fair because I'm appropriating, right?
What is your response to that?