Buffy ,'Sleeper'
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.
Happy, a little belated, birthday, Strix!
Much ~ma for Zoe.
My cheap car without a ton of miles alert went off on this morning. (We're not really looking for one anymore, but I haven't canceled the alert yet). If Em was actually planning to start driving now that she's 16, I'd be all over this one.
Big, tough, and it makes everyone around you slow down.
Hey, I have a query and a problem. I need to know what is appropriate to wear to my kiddos bar mitzvah, in the synagogue. Are capped sleeve acceptable or should they be at least elbow length sleeves? I understand that my skirt length should probably be about knee length? And do I have to wear a hat or scarf?
I'm trying to get everything in a row before October when we have the bar mitzvah in Pennsylvania.
Strix, it depends on the synogogue w/r/t sleeves. There's no requirement for women to cover their heads.
Monday. I hate you and all of your works.
Monday. I hate you and all of your works.
Yes.
This morning I've been all "Blah blah blah Monday blah blah stock market plummets blah blah..."
Big, tough, and it makes everyone around you slow down.
That would be a hilarious car to buy for a 16 year old!
This morning I've been all "Blah blah blah Monday blah blah stock market plummets blah blah..."
I sold almost all my individual stocks last week. Muwahahaha!
I can't even get into T. Rowe Price's website this morning. There must be a million people all freaking out at once.
Thanks, Sparky. I think I'll play it safe with sleeves, or wear a shrug or a cardigan. It'll be October, anyway.
Strix dress code depends on the synagogue - do you know whether its reform, conservative, orthodox, or what? That'll narrow down what the requirements probably are. If the synagogue has a website they'll probably list any dress code requirements there. I wouldn't worry too much - guests are usually cut some slack.
I was thinking I just needed more sleep but today I feel like maybe I'm actually coming down with something. Maybe I will go home and eat Jell-o on the couch.
Monday. I hate you and all of your works.
I am dealing with an author who is the special-est snowflake to ever put words to paper. It's a fucking 1-page commentary, and he is fighting me on edits that were made so that his commentary is not vague. He says "I do not wish to explain something the reader can look up." THAT'S NOT HOW ARTICLES WORK.
We also have a policy to not use words that are kind of dramatic ("frighteningly, this policy leaves out..." or "the article laments that patients are not treated..."), because the senior management hates that shit and deletes it if we leave it in.
Special snowflake is all "This is an opinion piece -- MY opinion, my words, so leave 'frighteningly' and 'laments' in the paper!" So all I can do is explain that if I leave them in, senior management will probably take them out after the article leaves my hands.
He also commented "You are editing this as though it is a manuscript." SWEET JESUS YOU FOOL WHAT DO YOU THINK THIS IS???? By its definition, it is a manuscript.
He opened his last email to me with "This is becoming too much work." Seriously, dude? This is a ONE PAGE COMMENTARY. You think it's too much work for *you*??? I'm the one who has to deal with your stupid face.
He needs to die in all the fires. I was so over his shit last week when he told me it was "too hard" to review the PDF of his 1-page paper in Acrobat. STOP IT, EVIL HAND.