Yeah. My family occasions are enough like photo ops as it is.(although now I'm picturing CJ Cregg facing my evil stepmonster all "Ask your question or move on," which is making me smile.
It's all about the coat.
Host ,'Conviction (1)'
Natter 73: Chuck Norris only wishes he could Natter
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
erikaj - Dec 04, 2014 12:20:48 pm PST #11902 of 30000
"already on the kiss-cam with Karl Marx"-
billytea - Dec 04, 2014 12:21:25 pm PST #11903 of 30000
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Our office party apparently involves bowling.
One year we had lawn bowls. For the last couple of years we've just gone to a restaurant, I rather miss the dada that went into previous offerings.
I used to love our department's Selfish Santa (white elephant), but that was back in the day when we were a pretty tight-knit group of people with compatible senses of humor. This year I'm not sure it will be as much fun.
Oh! Our office does the Kris Kringle thing. This year I was the last person to pick out a name, and I drew myself. After considering the logistics to redo things, I just kept it. So I'm gifting myself this year. (I'm curious to see if I like what I picked out.)
Theodosia - Dec 04, 2014 12:26:36 pm PST #11904 of 30000
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
My desktop computer is definitely in hard drive failure. Happily, it's a RAID disk mirrored, so I will likely not lose any data, besides which I think all the important data is backed up with Carbonite, so it's just the annoyance and expense.
shrift - Dec 04, 2014 12:34:43 pm PST #11905 of 30000
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
Oh, ha ha. Someone wants me to get on a call. That never ends well, and I already want to destroy the world.
Connie Neil - Dec 04, 2014 12:35:24 pm PST #11906 of 30000
brillig
I, for one, welcome our new overlord shrift.
§ ita § - Dec 04, 2014 12:44:36 pm PST #11907 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
NOPE.
Ditched so many team outings of this sort, and they were always not on my way home either.
Hey! If I pass my background/drug (oh....) test, I can start on the 11th! So no feting yet, but hopeful noises!
Nora Deirdre - Dec 04, 2014 12:45:57 pm PST #11908 of 30000
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)
One year when I was at Lotus we had a fancy Xmas party at the Museum of Science, so we could wander through the exhibits and so on, that was really supernice for the non-drinkers/non-partyers.
When I worked at MIT Sloan, we had an Xmas party at MoS one year, and twice at the Boston MFA. It was nice.
Matt the Bruins fan - Dec 04, 2014 12:48:18 pm PST #11909 of 30000
Oh honey, the mentally unwell people have been in the fanbase since Game Changers was Stucky fanfiction on the internet. The calls have been coming from inside the house the whole time!
We haven't had a real Christmas party at my office in years, but as the President who retired last year was big into those "getting to know you" type party games I sure haven't minded their absence.
Theodosia - Dec 04, 2014 12:48:37 pm PST #11910 of 30000
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
::hoots hopeful noises westward::
Sheryl - Dec 04, 2014 12:52:25 pm PST #11911 of 30000
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"
Timelies all!
No holiday parties at work for me.
Meanwhile I forgot to put earrings on today, which meant I was practically naked. Didn't realize it until I was on my way to work. Don't know where my brain was...