I was just there a few minutes ago....
Hee! Not the readership I was going for, but I'll take it!
Remember that sex we were planning to have, ever again?
Zoe ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
Natter 52: Playing with a full deck?
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Polgara - Jul 09, 2007 12:10:36 pm PDT #7214 of 10001
Karma is a cat, sleeping in my lap cuz it loves me. ~TS
shrift - Jul 09, 2007 12:10:38 pm PDT #7215 of 10001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
To be fair, I was working for a company that did work for Kellogg's, so it isn't as surreal as all that. But it was kind of randomly hilarious.
Toddson - Jul 09, 2007 12:11:06 pm PDT #7216 of 10001
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Sweetie, you have every right in the world to be thrilled, proud, and anything else. You've accomplished something that not everyone can - just writing the book is an accomplishment; getting it published means someone else thought it was worth their time and effort. The fact that you've got the internets heating up with the buzz means you've produced something that speaks to us - all the invisible people on the board plus the lurkers. Yay for you!
tommyrot - Jul 09, 2007 12:12:02 pm PDT #7217 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Hee! Not the readership I was going for, but I'll take it!
What, you think I'm not a knitter?
OK, I'm not, but still....
§ ita § - Jul 09, 2007 12:13:56 pm PDT #7218 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I have to admit that I've done the "but there was no bill!" thing.
There wasn't.
Also I'm a flake.
But mostly there wasn't.
These days I'm pathetic enough that I can only hold 1 recurring bill that's not sent through my bank. Water and Power wins, which means that cable keeps almost falling through the cracks. Hopefully my upcoming account number change will make it compatible with the autopay stuff.
sarameg - Jul 09, 2007 12:17:23 pm PDT #7219 of 10001
Because my student mailroom was staffed by the particularly inept students doing work study, I ended up being hyperaware over when to expect bills (so I could go yell at them and make them sort the buckets of weekold mail and put them in the PO boxes.) I do wonder how many people's credit got fucked up by those jerks.
sumi - Jul 09, 2007 12:26:37 pm PDT #7220 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
We're having The FLOOD right now with sheets of rain, lots of wind, thunder, lightning and hail.
shrift - Jul 09, 2007 12:27:06 pm PDT #7221 of 10001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
Why does it always start monsooning five minutes before I'm supposed to leave the office?
sumi - Jul 09, 2007 12:30:45 pm PDT #7222 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
And the temperature has dropped to 68!
Emily - Jul 09, 2007 12:39:26 pm PDT #7223 of 10001
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
I have to admit that I've done the "but there was no bill!" thing.
Oh, it wasn't that. I mean, yes, if you've gone two months without a bill, you should maybe go looking, since probably it doesn't mean it's free. What bugged me was that they hadn't worked out that not getting a bill -- and therefore never paying anything -- and having their service cut off might possibly be connected. Let me put it this way: I would expect the conversation to go, "I see you never paid your bill." "I never got a bill." "Okay, let's fix your address, and then you're going to have to pay some to reactivate it." "Okay." Rather than, you know, repeated iterations of "I never got a bill!" "Er, yes, but you're still going to have to pay for the calls you made. So let's fix that now--" "I never got a bill!"