And we live to fight another day.

Mal ,'Objects In Space'


Natter 74: Ready or Not  

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.


shrift - Jul 17, 2015 7:47:43 am PDT #1048 of 30003
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty

If you find my motivation, please shove it through the intertubes in my direction.

I'm hoping that I will find my motivation at the bottom of this large coffee I'm drinking. I am the groggiest.


Dana - Jul 17, 2015 7:49:10 am PDT #1049 of 30003
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

Hooray, my lunch meeting was cancelled.

I actually do find the training useful, though since I had already taken another version, it just confirmed what I already knew. Give me facts and clear expectations, then leave me alone and let me work.


Steph L. - Jul 17, 2015 7:49:56 am PDT #1050 of 30003
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe

Oh, man. It's sentences like this that make me want to find a new job where I don't have to deal with words:

"A Google for current practice location of each matched applicant was then performed."

Yeah. A Google was performed. t keens, rends garments


Ginger - Jul 17, 2015 7:54:06 am PDT #1051 of 30003
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda

emotional people who got offended if you didn't engage in small talk were blue.

What color are the people who got offended if you did engage in small talk? That would be my color. I hope it's not pink.


Ginger - Jul 17, 2015 7:59:53 am PDT #1052 of 30003
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda

Given the passive nature of your publication, they still could have written, "The current practice location of each matched applicant was determined using Google." Performing a Google sounds painful. You could break a rib.


Steph L. - Jul 17, 2015 8:02:48 am PDT #1053 of 30003
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe

Oh, I changed it to "We then performed an Internet search for current practice location of each matched applicant." We actually try to put as much in the active voice as we can.


shrift - Jul 17, 2015 8:11:27 am PDT #1054 of 30003
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty

What color are the people who got offended if you did engage in small talk?

Probably green if small talk makes you think, "OH MY GOD. Stop asking me about my weekend and tell me what you want so you can go away and let me work!"

I am viewing 3 apartments today because I probably should see other places before I make a final decision.


Jesse - Jul 17, 2015 8:12:22 am PDT #1055 of 30003
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Wait, Steph -- how will anyone know it's SRS SCIENCE??


Steph L. - Jul 17, 2015 8:13:22 am PDT #1056 of 30003
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe

Wait, Steph -- how will anyone know it's SRS SCIENCE??

We put in little doodles of people in lab coats who are scowling and waving Erlenmeyer flasks menacingly.


Maria - Jul 17, 2015 8:18:22 am PDT #1057 of 30003
Not so nice is that I'm about to ruin a Friday morning for a bunch of people because of a series of unfortunate events and an upset foreign government. - shrift

msbelle, lots of health~ma for your uncle.

Jesse, thinking good thoughts for your and your family today.

At least Dana is not going through DISC assessment training today. *shudder*

shrift, sound plan, but I'm sure you're exhausted with the search. It's almost over.