Self, stop reading the comments on articles about New Orleans. Yes, even the ones on NPR. Possibly especially the ones on NPR.
Mal: Ready? Zoe: Always.
'Serenity'
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.
Dana - Aug 17, 2015 10:07:41 am PDT #3479 of 30003
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
-t - Aug 17, 2015 10:20:01 am PDT #3480 of 30003
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
There be dragons.
It is known.
Dana - Aug 17, 2015 10:23:37 am PDT #3481 of 30003
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Only, what, two more weeks of 10-year anniversary coverage?
-t - Aug 17, 2015 10:33:46 am PDT #3482 of 30003
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
We can hope.
Matt the Bruins fan - Aug 17, 2015 10:35:14 am PDT #3483 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
Had a bit of a scare today, my mom went to the ER with dizziness, light-headedness, and nausea. Tests couldn't find anything wrong so she's back home now, feeling somewhat better.
Ginger - Aug 17, 2015 10:40:06 am PDT #3484 of 30003
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
I just got a call from a friend who said she had gotten a panicked Facebook message from a friend of mine, R, wondering if I was okay. I haven't gotten a Facebook, phone or any other kind of message from R in months, and I haven't disappeared from Facebook, so WTF? He's been known in the past to leave a couple of phone messages for me and decide something had happened to me, without remembering that his phone was probably out of minutes, out of charge or lost. Then he calls friends of mine he barely knows and panics them. It's like he only remembers I exist every six months or so, and then thinks I should instantly appear. We used to be friends, but now it seems he only remembers I exist when he wants something.
Sorry. I had to rant somewhere.
-t - Aug 17, 2015 10:52:55 am PDT #3485 of 30003
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Oh, no, Matt! I hope it was really nothing.
Ugh, Ginger, that's terrible.
Steph L. - Aug 17, 2015 10:54:35 am PDT #3486 of 30003
I look more rad than Lutheranism
I am so frustrated with my job. I think I'm going to go stand in the shower and cry. Maybe with a beer.
Dana - Aug 17, 2015 10:56:29 am PDT #3487 of 30003
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Glad it turned out okay, Matt.
Ginger, that's...bizarre. And irritating.
Steph, I endorse standing in the shower with a beer. The crying part is not good, obviously. Is it your boss again?
Steph L. - Aug 17, 2015 11:04:10 am PDT #3488 of 30003
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Is it your boss again?
Yeah. I'm just completely frustrated with the feedback she gives me. One week I get raves and compliments (that I dutifully label with my "work kudos" label in Gmail), and the next week I get so much feedback on everything I did wrong that I have to page down twice just to read it all.
While I know my editing is neither perfect nor precisely the same from article to article (because different articles are more complex/more poorly written/etc., and because I am not an editing robot), I have a very hard time believing that I am SUPER AWESOME YAY TIMES one week and ENGLISH, DO YOU SPEAK IT the next week.
And ISTG she always gives me feedback on things that I did/didn't do because of our style, and so I point out that XYZ is our style, so that is why I didn't change it to ABC even though she thinks I should have. Then she replies "It's true that XYZ is our style, but I changed it to ABC because of [crazy-ass bullshit I couldn't have been expected to know because she just decided it's relevant]." That shit feels like gaslighting me SO HARD. I get bad feedback for following our style??? What the shit.