unless he is a giant idiot
SIGH. I can sympathize a bit, because it's a small firm and I'm fairly senior, so they have to be sure they'll have enough work. But the guy who drives most of the hiring is in Boulder, not SF, and doesn't seem to think they need me.
I'll survive, but it's a bit lowering. It's been a rough year or so, and it would be really nice to have someone be really excited to have me on board. But other than this contracting firm, I haven't even had a real interview since before Thanksgiving.
Knitters! You can make little penguin sweaters to help little penguins omg. link
This is fun - a co-worker and I are educating the rest of our team on fandom jargon. (I just Googled "exclamation point fandom" because I didn't want to link to our FAQ.) So far we've been through shipping, OTP, HSQ, Vampire!Willow, slash/gen/het, woobie...I'm running low on terms I can just pull out of my head. Any big ones we're missing?
Adorable and very persistent dachsund:
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fanon, AU, High School AU, Always-an-X-AU, genderswap, mpreg, A/B/O (if you feel up to explaining it), OT3, apocafic, fix-it-fic, WNGWJLEO (which you don't see much anymore, I admit), ATG, dub-con...
fanon, AU, High School AU, Always-an-X-AU, genderswap, mpreg, A/B/O (if you feel up to explaining it), OT3, apocafic, fix-it-fic, WNGWJLEO (which you don't see much anymore, I admit), ATG, dub-con...
Perfect, thanks. Except I think the only people paying attention to the conversation anymore are me and the other fannish co-worker. Maybe we scared everyone off by telling them about rule 34?
(My other problem, of course, is distinguishing between fan jargon and Buffista jargon. I frequently can't remember which is which, and since I bitch about work here I want to keep the two separate...)
What is with this week and me being pulled into calls to play the heavy?
brenda,
so drinks are on you this Friday? Congratulations!
Happy Thursday all!
one of my colleagues had a discussion with her advisee (a graduate student, I should note) about why women go to strip clubs. I would not have had this discussion with my advisees, but oh well.
Anyway, the advisee mentioned she herself went to strip clubs. Colleague asked: "why do you go to strip clubs?'
Answer: "I like the chicken wings."
So...when my colleague told me the above, without exaggeration, I laughed for 15 minutes straight until I could hardly breathe. I think that is the most hilarious response to an earnest question on the topic that I could ever imagine.
