Or maybe you could just be Buffy, he'll see your amazing heart, and he'll fall in love with you.

Xander ,'Get It Done'


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.


Calli - May 14, 2015 2:01:33 pm PDT #26415 of 30000
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

Yay, Mountain View!

My name would be, working back by decade: Daniela, Kaylee, Krista, Erika (waves toward AZ), Heather, Constance, Edith, Georgia, Opal, Audrey, Rosie, Estelle, and Dorothy.


Sheryl - May 14, 2015 2:06:02 pm PDT #26416 of 30000
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"

Timelies all!

My today name would be Arabella. 2000s name would be Ruth, 1990s Jill, 1980s Joni, 1970s Vivian. Not bad. It's when I go earlier that things get bad. 1960s name? Bertha. 1950s? Erma. I stopped looking after that.

My hair is getting more salt in the salt-and-pepper. The grey/white/silver(I'm not sure which) are more noticeable when my hair is down from the barrette.


Juliebird - May 14, 2015 2:42:25 pm PDT #26417 of 30000
I am the fly who dreams of the spider

I am Adilyn, not bad. The worst was Lakeysha. I'm envisioning that spelt with a dollar sign.

Got to witness, in two separate but consecutive instances, bossman and facilities manager be pissy about each other behind each others backs. Dudes, you're both fucking up, and you can't lord it over the other when they fuck up, because you have your own glass house to look after, get your shit together! You're both over fifty, act like grown responsible men!

When I saw them getting pissy at each other about another hotbed of a topic that is actually entirely the ED's fault, I ran. Literally. I really did want to be informed about why a certain problem existed, but those two are such a hotbed together.

And I continue to be unhappy with how bossman continues to create divisiveness amongst the staff with his control-freakness and dickishness. A colleague came over to relate an anecdote of a 1st grader who got their finger stuck in an eye-screw in the greenhouse. Hours later bossman sought me out to inquire as to whether she had been trying to suggest that we remove the eyescrews. Really? that's what you're dwelling on? She didn't ask us to, she might have been entertaining the thought, nervous person that she is, but she didn't ask us to do so. Don't make it a bigger thing than it was. We rationally talked it out and concluded that it was an interesting anecdote and that even verbally cautioning against sticking fingers in inappropriate places would only place ideas in these kids heads. She even presented it as a funny story.

So, control freak, and paranoid, excellent. Stop trying to create problems and enemies. You've got enough of that without trying.


-t - May 14, 2015 2:42:28 pm PDT #26418 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Made it home, did not get rained on, legs are ready to liquefy.


-t - May 14, 2015 3:02:19 pm PDT #26419 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

And it looks like we have resolution of that cluster from last week, finally. This has been such a tempest in a teapot - multiple people across several departments jumping through hoops, sometimes backwards and on fire. Twice someone (with the authority to make the decision) has said we are canceling the whole thing it isn't worth the trouble only to change their mind the next day, but goddammit those cookie sheets will be in stores to be given away with a purchase of something else (I don't even know what) next week.


Lee - May 14, 2015 3:05:51 pm PDT #26420 of 30000
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.

YAY getting home!

I was just thinking YAY rain, but Boo drive home in the rain.

Such is life.


Zenkitty - May 14, 2015 3:06:35 pm PDT #26421 of 30000
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.

While I was away, a sign appeared on one of the new buildings going up beside my grocery store. We're getting a Chipotle! And they deliver! Some of them, anyway. The ability to have someone bring me a burrito whenever I want one might not be all that good for me, to be honest.


Steph L. - May 14, 2015 3:11:55 pm PDT #26422 of 30000
I look more rad than Lutheranism

The ability to have someone bring me a burrito whenever I want one might not be all that good for me, to be honest.

Coincidentally, I was talking with my brother today, and we concluded that a burrito-sniffing dog would be WAY better than a truffle-sniffing pig.


sarameg - May 14, 2015 3:14:07 pm PDT #26423 of 30000

Aren't all dogs burrito sniffing?


hippocampus - May 14, 2015 3:14:11 pm PDT #26424 of 30000
not your mom's socks.

A thing I worked on has its own post on iO9.