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Buffy ,'Showtime'


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 08, 2015 12:42:16 pm PDT #489 of 30003
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty

What kind of paperwork do I actually need to produce in order to rent in San Francisco?


msbelle - Jul 08, 2015 12:51:54 pm PDT #490 of 30003
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

I was watching the Gary storyline in repeats the summer I nannied and was around a million kids and hormonal women. Lots of crying.


Steph L. - Jul 08, 2015 1:01:47 pm PDT #491 of 30003
the hardest to learn / was the least complicated

And all of the documents are on our shared drive, she just wanted me to move them to a different folder? Seriously? Do it yourself lady, it'll take you less time

My boss sent me an email...telling me to email an author to let the author know he will be receiving a galley. Wouldn't it have taken the EXACT SAME amount of time for her to just email the author herself? And then save me -- and by extension, the AMA -- the time it takes to send that email? (Which is a small amount of time, but still billable and ridiculous.)


-t - Jul 08, 2015 1:02:01 pm PDT #492 of 30003
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

I never watched thirtysomething. I have no idea what you all are talking about.

I miss watching tennis but I just cannot get into the right headspace for it.


Jesse - Jul 08, 2015 1:18:04 pm PDT #493 of 30003
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

My boss sent me an email...telling me to email an author to let the author know he will be receiving a galley. Wouldn't it have taken the EXACT SAME amount of time for her to just email the author herself? And then save me -- and by extension, the AMA -- the time it takes to send that email? (Which is a small amount of time, but still billable and ridiculous.)

My boss loves to do that shit -- I can hear her from my office, asking someone else to ask/tell me something. Why???

What kind of paperwork do I actually need to produce in order to rent in San Francisco?

I dunno, but I think in Boston I only needed paystubs. In New York, I'm pretty sure I needed tax returns. So somewhere between those, I bet?


Anne W. - Jul 08, 2015 1:19:46 pm PDT #494 of 30003
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.

Gah, meara, that is frustrating as hell. (Also, per our conversation at dinner I checked my fridge and I do NOT have a can holder in my fridge. I do, however, have a drawer in my dishwasher I had no idea was in there.)


meara - Jul 08, 2015 1:38:04 pm PDT #495 of 30003

A drawer you did not know was there?? How does that work?

I am currently ensconced with margarita. I have a conference call in an hour and several more hours of work to do but damn do I need this drink. (Told boss that I was over allocated and would not be able to do the trip to Boston she wanted me to do, and she was all "yeah, sorry, but we are getting a lot of pressure to get it done" and I managed to NOT respond "IDGAF about the pressure because I'm not doing it. Fire me if you want"


Zenkitty - Jul 08, 2015 1:42:07 pm PDT #496 of 30003
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.

My boss loves to do that shit -- I can hear her from my office, asking someone else to ask/tell me something.

My boss used to call me to come into her office so she could tell me something. It was never anything she couldn't have told me on the phone, she just prefers F2F contact. Sometimes she'd call to tell me she was sending me an email, and after I read it I should come into her office to discuss it. It was never sensitive information, or a scolding; those she'd deliver right at my desk in front of God and everybody. In conclusion, telecommuting is great.


Anne W. - Jul 08, 2015 1:43:13 pm PDT #497 of 30003
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.

A drawer you did not know was there?? How does that work?

It's a very, very shallow drawer up at the very top of the dishwasher. I think it's meant for utensils and such. I found out about it because I had a large plastic cup in (what I thought was) the upper rack that caught on the true upper rack. Fun times.


Maria - Jul 08, 2015 1:49:56 pm PDT #498 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

Argh, meara. And Tep. Jesse too. It's all bullshit.

So our initial response to a Denver Water RFP got through to the emailed Q&A level, and I just got notification that we've made it to the in-person interview stage. Heading to Denver 7/21-22 (may be the 22-23rd, since the interview is not until the afternoon). Take that, work. Maybe it will be enough to save my job even if it isn't 25 orders immediately.