River: I know you have questions. Mal: That would be why I just asked them.

'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.


Maria - Aug 24, 2016 12:36:03 pm PDT #26549 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

Oh, that's ridiculously frustrating! And if you left and came back, you'd completely make up the difference because you'd be a new hire. It's all bullshit. I'm sorry you have to deal with it, Suzi.


Sheryl - Aug 24, 2016 12:56:57 pm PDT #26550 of 30003
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"

Timelies all!

I can be a messy eater at times, but I can't think of any food I only eat at home because of it. (Of course, having a small child ups the "messy eater" ante a bit.)


sj - Aug 24, 2016 12:58:16 pm PDT #26551 of 30003
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."

I prefer to eat whole lobsters at home because it is ridiculously messy.


Zenkitty - Aug 24, 2016 1:47:23 pm PDT #26552 of 30003
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.

I don't eat messy food in public. I have enough trouble with regular food ending up on the boob shelf. And white shirts? Never.


shrift - Aug 24, 2016 1:55:42 pm PDT #26553 of 30003
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty

I'm having a day. There's a happy hour to welcome us to our new building, so I just stood up at my desk and announced to some coworkers, "Oh, I should get a beer so I don't kill anyone." A coworker responded, "I fear for my personal safety right now."


Connie Neil - Aug 24, 2016 1:58:46 pm PDT #26554 of 30003
brillig

Both my boss and his boss feel I qualify for the next grade level.

Sounds like the company had a rule about how big of raises they can give people.


Jesse - Aug 24, 2016 2:16:39 pm PDT #26555 of 30003
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

My whole morning was a pile of shit, but I semi turned it around in the afternoon and then I left promptly to give blood. So now I have smug self-satisfaction.

Man, I am slow on the uptake. It finally dawned on me that the little girl I'd increasingly been seeing in an acquaintance's fb photos late this summer is not in fact a new summertime friend, but one of her 7 year old twins transitioning to a feminine id. Took the first day of school photo. "Wait, where's the other...OH!'

Aw. I wonder what's up with the child of family friends who has had long hair for years and recently started going by an androgynous name rather than their given male name, but who knows!


Matt the Bruins fan - Aug 24, 2016 2:49:57 pm PDT #26556 of 30003
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand

As I was saying goodbye and walking out the door my cow-orker asked if I'd read the email she sent moments before. No, I pointedly did not read it because I know you well enough to realize an email popping up in my inbox a minute before I shut everything down for the day is going to be some laborious procedure you should have notified me about hours ago. If it was important enough to require me to stay late tonight, it was important enough to walk yourself over to my desk during business hours instead of firing off a last-minute email when you heard my keys jingling. Seeya!


Hil R. - Aug 24, 2016 2:56:01 pm PDT #26557 of 30003
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

A Japanese friend told me that people in Japan eat sushi with their hands, and he thought it was weird that Americans ate it with chopsticks.


sarameg - Aug 24, 2016 3:13:43 pm PDT #26558 of 30003

Similar with the daughter of a childhood friend, though the child goes by Lu, rather than full given Lucia (and had been sometimes called Lu before, but not exclusively.) But similar transformation one summer and the family has managed to avoid using any indicative pronouns, so I'm not sure if it's a gender thing or just butch. In the case of the twin, whole new girl name unlike given name.

Given how young these kids are, it seems like their parents are going public with a minimum of fuss, not making it a thing. The only indication acknowledgement of any sort of change was someone asking if Girlname was liking her long hair & a response of yeah, but dad really has to learn to braid now, which wouldn't be really that significant unless you knew Girlname used to be Boyname.