And now, I am going to hear a lecture by Bauman.
I'm so tired that I read that as "Batman."
Raise your hand if 'ew.'
Buffy ,'Same Time, Same Place'
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.
Steph L. - May 13, 2009 6:16:31 am PDT #9652 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Seska (the Watcher-in-Training) - May 13, 2009 6:17:22 am PDT #9653 of 30000
"We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh?"
I'm so tired that I read that as "Batman."
Damn. Now I realise it could be even more cool. Oh well. Off to get beer with colleagues before the relatively cool lecture...
Vortex - May 13, 2009 6:22:06 am PDT #9654 of 30000
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
heh. You've seen movies and TV with people driving across Memorial Bridge with the Lincoln Memorial in the background, and then suddenly turning left onto Pennsylvania Ave, and we think "hey, you're in Virginia".
Watching CSI: Miami you'd think the only way to get anywhere in Miami is to cross the Julia Tuttle or MacArthur Causeways. Because, you know, everything happens on the beach in Miami.
Well, doesn't it? Oh, wait, some things happen in nightclubs at South Beach.
Is there anyone you can appeal to?
Universities are evil about maternity leave for staff. For a while, you couldn't use sick leave for maternity. When someone mentioned this, I asked (out of curiosity) "well, what if you had a cesarean? That's an operation, so you should be able to use sick leave for that" There was a murmur, and I was then told that basically, departments "worked it out" @@. Ridic.
JZ - May 13, 2009 6:31:02 am PDT #9655 of 30000
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Universities are evil about maternity leave for staff.
God knows my own university mat leave was severely fouled up (and still, if I ask ten different administrators in Personnel exactly how much of what leave I should have been able to take, and whether my 300+ hours of untouched sick leave were available, I'll still get ten different and completely contradictory answers).
But Sparky's just seems like an extra level of malevolence. Docking her for nonexistent working Fridays during the single most physically and emotionally needy time of her and the Babyfrass's mutual lives is damn near inhuman.
Sparky1 - May 13, 2009 6:38:51 am PDT #9656 of 30000
Librarian Warlord
But Sparky's just seems like an extra level of malevolence.
Frankly, I blame it on who is running the place at the highest levels. They don't share a dinner table with humans of the female persuasion so they can ignore this kind of thing (whereas my poor DH hears me rant every night).
At the moment, I'm boggling about how they seem not to know how the dependent care credit works.
Vortex - May 13, 2009 6:49:35 am PDT #9657 of 30000
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
They don't share a dinner table with humans of the female persuasion so they can ignore this kind of thing (whereas my poor DH hears me rant every night).
no, that's not it. We have the same BS here too. Hell, our GC is a woman with children and they still have this crap.
omnis_audis - May 13, 2009 6:52:47 am PDT #9658 of 30000
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir
Told The Girl she was in the wrong profession and that she should have been a teacher 'cause it's less stressful (and then I heard it). She laughed for about ten minutes.You've done your job. You cheered her up! Good for you.
Frankly, I blame it on who is running the place at the highest levels. They don't share a dinner table with humans of the female persuasion so they can ignore this kind of thing (whereas my poor DH hears me rant every night).PixK and I had a nice discussion awhile back at how slanted the health care system is against women. Really opened my eyes. Being single male, I didn't have a clue. The most boggling point she made, lil blue pill is covered by insurance, birth control pill, not always. Huh??
Sparky1 - May 13, 2009 6:59:30 am PDT #9659 of 30000
Librarian Warlord
how slanted the health care system is against women
One of my favorite examples of the slant was how certain states I've lived in taxed feminine products, but not shaving cream, because shaving cream was a necessity (like food), but feminine products weren't. @@
JZ - May 13, 2009 7:05:22 am PDT #9660 of 30000
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
We have the same BS here too. Hell, our GC is a woman with children and they still have this crap.
Ugh, completely disheartening. The top level of my university is more diverse than Sparky's, but they're mostly old enough that their babyrearing days are a distant fuzzy memory (plus they're making enough that, should they somehow spawn at their ages, they can easily manage one full-time stay-at-home parent).
I know it won't do a damn bit of good except to my own conscience, but now I want to write a letter to Sparky's board of regents saying, "I'm a practicing Catholic with two children who'll be entering college in the next decade and a half. However, as I take my church's social justice teachings seriously, I will have to forbid them to even apply to your institution, as it would surely be a sin to give money to an employer that shows such disregard for the caretakers and guardians of the weakest and most vulnerable members of its community."
amych - May 13, 2009 7:11:57 am PDT #9661 of 30000
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
JZ, DOOO EEEET.