It may make you feel better to hear that I did some kind of enrichment program one summer in high school (I think) where we took a classes at LSU that weren’t, like, real classes with college students in them but were taught by professors (or adjuncts or whatever, I have no idea, but not TAs or grad students) and one of them told us all that he got really good evaluations from his students but he knew it was just because he was entertaining and not necessarily that they learned all that much from him. I can’t remember what class that even was but him complaining about how they were evaluated even though it was to his benefit really stuck in my head.
Yes, it's terribly simple. The good guys are always stalwart and true, the bad guys are easily distinguished by their pointy horns or black hats, and, uh, we always defeat them and save the day. No one ever dies, and everybody lives happily ever after.
Giles ,'Conversations with Dead People'
Natter 78: I might need to watch some Buffy for inspiration
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.
-t - Feb 17, 2025 3:43:09 pm PST #5554 of 5694
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
erikaj - Feb 17, 2025 5:28:04 pm PST #5555 of 5694
Always Anti-fascist!
Guess who has brain damage and more unpaid assignments. I'm so thrilled to be on the precinct committee right now. I'll be trying to get commitments out of twenty-year-olds that just moved to town. After I do that, I'll get monkeys to fly out my butt. I have *got* to table that monologue about "If You Want Something Impossible, Ask a Disabled Person." I'm too fucking good at that shit,,,shouldn't saving the world be sexy or something?1
Hil R. - Feb 17, 2025 6:03:01 pm PST #5556 of 5694
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
I finished and submitted all my paperwork. It's not great, but it's done. And I'm halfway convinced that it'll get some automatic rejection because a lot of the classes I took for professional development have words like "equity" and "inclusion" in their names.
CaBil - Feb 17, 2025 6:41:51 pm PST #5557 of 5694
Remember, remember/the fifth of November/the Gunpowder Treason and Plot/I see no reason/Why Gunpowder Treason/Should ever be forgot.
One convention done, KatsuCon. Next convention up, this weekend in Morristown, NJ, Dreamation a small indy RPG con
Theodosia - Feb 18, 2025 6:42:04 am PST #5558 of 5694
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
The oral surgeon has an ambitious plan involving multiple surgeries including extractions, bone grafts and implants totalling...$37000. um.
JenP - Feb 18, 2025 6:45:50 am PST #5559 of 5694
Yikes, Theo!
flea - Feb 18, 2025 6:51:18 am PST #5560 of 5694
information libertarian
I’m off work today and listening to mr fleas morning meeting. These poor managers. Everybody has questions and they have no answers. They found out what probationary employees were fired after the employees did. Like they came in to work this morning and were told who was gone.
Addressing telework: They can telework through next week. “What then?” “We’ll know next week.” “If you don’t have a desk in the building, please let me know and we’ll figure something out.”
flea - Feb 18, 2025 6:54:34 am PST #5561 of 5694
information libertarian
Theo that’s terrible as a price point! Did the surgeon have any non-platinum options?
Matt the Bruins fan - Feb 18, 2025 7:09:48 am PST #5562 of 5694
"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
Theo, please tell us that you'll at least be able to bite through thick steel cables like Jaws from the Bond movies afterwards!
JenP - Feb 18, 2025 7:34:33 am PST #5563 of 5694
flea, that is such insanity.