{{Nora}}
Early: You folks are all insane. Simon: Well, my sister's a ship. We had a complicated childhood.
'Objects In Space'
Spike's Bitches 44: It's about the rules having changed.
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
-t - May 11, 2009 5:08:51 pm PDT #9471 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Burrell - May 11, 2009 5:23:36 pm PDT #9472 of 30000
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
ita, we are trying to find a way to see it maybe this weekend. I'd be happy to have you join us if it works out.
Beverly - May 11, 2009 6:31:28 pm PDT #9473 of 30000
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Print out the email and write your rebuttal, Nora, point by point. Write out your argument, if you haven't done so. You don't have to do more than make a list of your points, really, but it will help to have them down and concrete.
I tend to stammer and clutch when I have a face to face meeting, or any sort of confrontation. So it always helps me to write down my points and write out a rough guide of what I want to say, and practice saying it. I also imagine varying responses, and my rebuttals to those. I practice deliberately keeping my voice lower to keep it from squeaking, taking deeper breaths, and speaking slower. It helps me to be prepared and not so jittery that I lose what I was going to say and just clam up in overwhelm.
I am not you, of course, and if this won't work for you, please disregard it. I only mention it in case it might help.
DCJensen - May 11, 2009 8:13:44 pm PDT #9474 of 30000
All is well that ends in pizza.
Glamcookie - May 11, 2009 8:39:08 pm PDT #9475 of 30000
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
THERE. ARE. FOUR! LIGHTS!
Oh hell yeah! Love me some Picard and love me some TNG!
Also, {{{Nora}}}. Wishing you a great outcome, lady!
Glamcookie - May 11, 2009 8:45:28 pm PDT #9476 of 30000
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
My tummy hurts.
t /5 years old
Vortex - May 11, 2009 8:46:35 pm PDT #9477 of 30000
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
Only if you're saying it so that you don't have to go to bed.
§ ita § - May 11, 2009 8:53:56 pm PDT #9478 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Burrell, given I have nothing to do during the day once I've done the job apps, I mightn't last until the weekend. But now I'm tempted to wait.
Hil R. - May 11, 2009 8:59:18 pm PDT #9479 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
I had an odd day today. Another grad student had been awake all night finishing up a take-home final, and she was kind of in that stage of sleeplessness where you just sort of keep rambling about anything. And this time, her rambling was about how men in Egypt (where she's from) are different than American men, and European men, and are the most romantic and the most manly men in the world. Oh, and "manly" means "hits women." She says she wouldn't be able to respect a man who didn't hit her, because she wouldn't think he was a real man.
My office can be disturbing at times.
Hil R. - May 11, 2009 9:14:04 pm PDT #9480 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Oh, and I tried earplugs while studying, and they work really well. Plus, side effect of my officemate not trying to talk to me while I'm working. (I get distracted very easily. He knows this. He has commented on this. He has interrupted me while I was working to ask, "You get distracted really easily, don't you?" And yet, he'll try to start a conversation while I'm working. I'll say, "I'm working," and not look up. Five minutes later, he's talking to me again.)