I have good news, at least: I finally hired for my last open position on my team! And she seems great. I'm especially proud that in an office that is heavily, heavily white women, the three people I've hired are not! One white man (not a huge blow for equity in society, but still), two black women (one is maybe biracial, I don't actually know). Now if I can just hang on to them.
Xander: I still don't get why we came here to get info about a killer snot monster. Giles: Because it's a killer snot monster from outer space. I did not say that.
'Never Leave Me'
Natter 75: More Than a Million Natters Served
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.
Jesse - Jun 27, 2018 3:59:13 am PDT #26669 of 30002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Shir - Jun 27, 2018 4:22:01 am PDT #26670 of 30002
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".
I am trying not to spiral into despair because of the world. it's a lot of suck right now.
I have a weird hope mechanism. Give me 1-2 piece of horrifying news items and I'd be depressed. Give me more than that, and I'll enter a stage of "if nothing we do matters..." and get up and do/organize stuff. Maybe it is an adaptation to living here, but I just don't want to let the m-f take away my hope and humanity; I also don't have the energy and the capability to act with anger anymore. It tires me to try and contain it, and it makes my actions blind and dangerous.
However, in better news. After two years of spending dozens of hours trying to capture her, one very patient vet and a special cage (which name I cannot Google its name in English), and an hour of trying to get her inside the special cage, Batcat is finally vaccinated. Poor kitty. She resisted the entire thing. She's probably planing to kill me in my sleep tonight.
Edit: and yay Jesse's news!
Gudanov - Jun 27, 2018 5:10:51 am PDT #26671 of 30002
Coding and Sleeping
Slack is down. This feels like a national emergency.
-t - Jun 27, 2018 5:46:23 am PDT #26672 of 30002
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
That doesn't *sound* like a problem.
DavidS - Jun 27, 2018 5:59:51 am PDT #26673 of 30002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Today is Jacqueline's 50th birthday!
Do take a minute to wish her the best.
Matilda and I will assay the raspberry chocolate ganache cake to celebrate.
Steph L. - Jun 27, 2018 6:02:08 am PDT #26674 of 30002
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Wait, 50? How? What? How?
Happy Birthday, JZ! You make 50 look incredible! (Seriously, I am flabbergasted that you could be 50, because you sure don't look it.)
Tom Scola - Jun 27, 2018 6:03:27 am PDT #26675 of 30002
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY JZ!!!
Steph L. - Jun 27, 2018 6:06:26 am PDT #26676 of 30002
I look more rad than Lutheranism
(If I'm remembering correctly, I had the same reaction to Tom's birthday last year. Y'all need to start aging, damn it.)
Matt the Bruins fan - Jun 27, 2018 6:07:41 am PDT #26677 of 30002
"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
Happy Birthday JZ!
Shir - Jun 27, 2018 6:08:21 am PDT #26678 of 30002
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".
A very happy birthday, JZ!