'Lineage'
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 Birthdays! And yay demolition? Doubly yay, though, for renovation completed--shower!
Ima vent. I have to schedule more meetings than I like to think about with people who are as recalcitrant as 5-year-olds protesting their bedtime. I can look at their calendars and see hours and hours of open times that they insist they can. not. be there then. I want my computer to shoot lasers out at them when they open my e-mails. Just do it, damn it.
Oh, I hate that Sail. UPDATE YOUR CALENDARS co-irkers of Sail.
Timelies all!
Happy Birthday to Zen and Kiba!
No shit. I've got one guy who has some appointments on his calendar and the rest are on his assistant's, and they rarely match up, so I'm sitting here mentally cutting and pasting to see if the assistant is shining me on when she sends me his availability. Blargh.
Was just told again today that I always dress so cute. I'm wearing rumpled khaki linen capris, a grey tank top, and a bright red shirt worn open on top of the tank top. I like grey and red together. I guess it's different from the t-shirts and jeans everyone else is wearing. Good to get validation that what I consider schlubby, cool-ish comfort wear looks halfway decent.
I have to admit I get really great compliments when I wear any of my dresses from eShakti. I've given out that website to so many of my coworkers, now.
I want to get some dresses from there but I'm absolutely horrible about looking at a dress and deciding it would work on my body. I have picked some, gotten to check out and then completely second guessed myself and deleted. Only to lather, rinse, and repeat.
I want my computer to shoot lasers out at them when they open my e-mails.
Ooooh. I would abuse the hell out of that functionality.
That does sound cute, Connie.
Tep, that guy deserves to be beaten about the head and shoulders with a hardback copy of Eats, Shoots & Leaves. I'm sorry, but I am laughing rather a lot.
I'm feeling pretty good about making the decision to transfer out here.
Woohoo affirmation of life decisions!
Teppy, I would want to bonk that guy on the head with a cartoon anvil.
Tep, that guy deserves to be beaten about the head and shoulders with a hardback copy of Eats, Shoots & Leaves. I'm sorry, but I am laughing rather a lot.
I am filled with a white-hot rage I can't let go. If you reply in a deliberately vague manner that you can't bother to punctuate, you deserve your article to be fucked up. You don't get to get all shirty with us.
(He's also being a dick about other stuff, too. His article is a super-short one, and they can't go over 2 pages. His goes onto about 1/4 of page 3. We asked him during editing to shorten the article, and he replied "I already shortened it while writing it and it cannot be any shorter than it is." Once it was typeset and we knew for sure it was too long, we showed him the galley and said he needed to shorten it, and he answered, "I already said it cannot be any shorter than it is. Perhaps you should change the layout."
I kind of hate what I'm about to say, but -- does this assclown even KNOW who we ARE? You don't tell the AMA what to do, son. If they publish you, you say thank you and shut the fuck up.)
(Okay, yeah, saying "Do you KNOW who we ARE?", even in my head, is AWFUL. But still. This dude sucks. I stand by my "Don't tell us what to do, son. Just follow our rules, which you were given when we accepted your precious baby paper.)