Happy birthday, Aurelia!
I’m glad you dodged the ax, Jessica. 14k layoffs is nuts.
Why couldn't Giles have shackles like any self-respecting bachelor?
Xander ,'Beneath You'
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.
Calli - Oct 28, 2025 2:16:25 pm PDT #9924 of 10286
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
erikaj - Oct 28, 2025 3:33:31 pm PDT #9925 of 10286
"already on the kiss-cam with Karl Marx"-
#FuckTheBosses
aurelia - Oct 28, 2025 8:08:49 pm PDT #9926 of 10286
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
Thanks for the birthday wishes! I'm in the midst of A Christmas Carol load-in, so I'm keeping things low key this evening. Take-out sushi and finishing S2 of Slow Horses.
(I have a bunch of wishes for your city too, but you know about those)
And this is much appreciated. I haven't been teargassed yet, but there has been activity within a few blocks. I carry my whistle.
meara - Oct 29, 2025 6:44:36 am PDT #9927 of 10286
I hate that I love working east coast hours. It’s so much nicer than my usual schedule, where I wake up and immediately have meetings and am frantic to catch up on emails. But I can’t do it from home (would require getting up and going to bed hella early). But when I’m out on the east coast? So nice. Wake up at a reasonable hour, when the sun is up, sit down to computer, catch up on stuff, and THEN have meetings about stuff…
askye - Oct 29, 2025 10:31:18 am PDT #9928 of 10286
Thrive to spite them
I am back to work today. I was running a little late. I had changed my alarm to go off when I normally take my meds in the morning (which is after I wake up) and turned off the other alarms for vacation. Then forgot to reset them so I was eating breakfast and realized...oh ! Oh I should be walking out the door in 5 mins. And I still needed to shower etc.
It's been busy . But I feel a lot better than I have. Even the co worker who usually annoys me the most wasn't bothering me. I'm hoping this lasts for awhile
Tom Scola - Oct 29, 2025 11:04:28 am PDT #9929 of 10286
hwæt
I voted during my lunch break today!
Also, my boss's boss just emailed us, after getting some clarification about an issue he was harping us about, and said, “Looks like there was some confusion...” Yeah, nice use of the passive voice there.
NoiseDesign - Oct 29, 2025 11:16:17 am PDT #9930 of 10286
Our wings are not tired
Jessica that's so cool about the musical. The resident sound engineer at that theatre is a friend and former student of mine!
Jessica - Oct 29, 2025 1:44:48 pm PDT #9931 of 10286
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
The resident sound engineer at that theatre is a friend and former student of mine!
Oh, awesome!
brenda m - Oct 29, 2025 4:30:15 pm PDT #9932 of 10286
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
I hate that I love working east coast hours. It’s so much nicer than my usual schedule, where I wake up and immediately have meetings and am frantic to catch up on emails.
I've been on the west coast for like three days and the mad scramble to catch up at the beginning of the day is so stressful.
-t - Oct 29, 2025 4:50:16 pm PDT #9933 of 10286
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
At a couple of different points in my let's call it a career I worked on east coast time while in California, starting the day at 6 AM to be able to meet with people or whatever. In some ways it was nice, having some afternoon time to run errands before school let out even, or go to my second or third jobs as needed, but in a maybe deeper way, of course, it meant being in the office at 6 am every day and that was pretty rough. I can kind of fake being a morning person for a while if I need to, but really I would like to sleep 16 hours a day and any regular Being Awake schedule is going to be oppressive