Kat, send it to me and I can read and edit. Let me know what kind of feedback you’d prefer.
Inara: Mal, this isn't the ancient sea. You don't have to go down with your ship. Mal: She ain't going down. She ain't going anywhere.
'Out Of Gas'
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.
Pix - May 22, 2014 5:06:23 pm PDT #28300 of 30000
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie
Pix - May 22, 2014 5:07:14 pm PDT #28301 of 30000
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie
PS I apparently lost my debit card today also.
And I am dreading the fallout with Tino once our supervisor has a chat with him about over-the-top ridiculous behavior.
sarameg - May 22, 2014 5:08:49 pm PDT #28302 of 30000
Good for you, msbelle.
Several cars were keyed on my block last night. Mine was one. I will have had it a year, tomorrow. It'll annoy me every time I see it, but I think the thing that irks me the most, that I'm trying not to dwell on, is that there are humans with this level of casual disregard. 'Hey, let's key all the newish cars on the block! Because we can!' Yeah, you didn't even get any goods from it. So small, so pointless. Robbery makes more sense.
-t - May 22, 2014 5:22:11 pm PDT #28303 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Argh, people.
Pix - May 22, 2014 5:22:42 pm PDT #28304 of 30000
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie
That completely sucks, sarameg. I’m so sorry.
§ ita § - May 22, 2014 5:35:38 pm PDT #28305 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
The Tinoest response to an issue around here was tech support saying (to a group who has worked around so many times they're now not allowed) "Can you find a workaround? I'm tired."
Kat - May 22, 2014 5:37:20 pm PDT #28306 of 30000
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Pix and Amy, insent and THANK YOU!
Kat - May 22, 2014 5:39:32 pm PDT #28307 of 30000
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
oh my god, ita. really?
My other favorite tino moment from the past two days is, after I said she wasn't an expert and I questioned her and parsed her sentences down to point out that just circling verbs doesn't work because "use" is not really the skill we want to teach she said, "You know what I mean."
I said, "No. And if a student gave me evidence in an essay but didn't do any explanation/justification but merely said, 'you know what I mean' I'd fail them."
So all morning the catchphrase became "You know what I mean."
Amy - May 22, 2014 5:41:50 pm PDT #28308 of 30000
Because books.
Clearly, tino and his ilk have multiplied.
sarameg - May 22, 2014 5:45:27 pm PDT #28309 of 30000
Now I've got to figure out if there is a relatively cheap fix (buffing? wax? Rub charcoal into it now and then-car is black) that will just minimize it so it doesn't stand out so much (because I'm not spending $$s on a paintjob for this- it runs from the headlight to across the back door) or if I'll go the route of just letting my car be so filthy I can't tell.
(And the worst part is, I can't put it past the feral kids from 2 houses across the street. I call them feral for a reason. We not-parents of the neighborhood try to model good behavior and don't hesitate to stop them from doing stupid shit and for the most part, they pay attention when you call 'em on it, but they have shit-ass parents. And they're all 10 and under. All eleventy of them. I told them they couldn't touch my yard or come on my property unless I asked them, and they've abided by that. But you have to tell them what is acceptable because clearly no one else has. I'm pretty much certain that C, the eldest, is going to end up dead or in prison because no one told him not to. Gah.)