According to my SIL, my brother is already well into his effort to burn the neighborhood down. Good times.
Plus bonus points for use of the word 'mosey'.
Oz ,'Same Time, Same Place'
Natter 69: Practically names itself.
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.
sarameg - Dec 31, 2011 4:00:11 pm PST #13848 of 30001
Kat - Dec 31, 2011 4:06:48 pm PST #13849 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
fireworks?
sarameg - Dec 31, 2011 4:09:48 pm PST #13850 of 30001
Yup. They must hate having him for a neighbor every NYE and Fourth.
Kat - Dec 31, 2011 4:10:44 pm PST #13851 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
At least he's not shooting a gun. I love the annual email from LASD telling us to fire a gun in the air is a felony.
I'm ringing in the new year in my sweatpants and t-shirt, eating yet ANOTHER loaf of french bread.
sarameg - Dec 31, 2011 4:14:24 pm PST #13852 of 30001
Well, he doesn't have one. Yet. (Topic of drunken conversation the night before I left. PJ's eyes about rolled out of her head. He likes to spring these things on her when he's shitfaced.)
§ ita § - Dec 31, 2011 4:29:44 pm PST #13853 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Okay, so strangers aren't as shitty as I was convinced this morning. I just got a call (well, two, because I kind of didn't answer the first, because I'M SULKING) from a guy whose car got broken into this afternoon. Being more like Batman than I am, evidently, he and his friend went dumpster diving. As well as half his stuff (as in, half his *entire* wardrobe), he found my laptop bag, sans laptop. So now I have that back. I did like the bag, and I did like the portfolio. Not as much as I *need* the damned computer, but he did make 2011 suck just a little bit less.
He still has two more bags without owners, and I wish everyone luck in that, as well as him finding the other half of his clothes (who steals *half* your underwear?).
Now, I think, I might be done for the day.
sarameg - Dec 31, 2011 4:33:41 pm PST #13854 of 30001
Good on him!
Polter-Cow - Dec 31, 2011 4:33:43 pm PST #13855 of 30001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Oh, that's good, ita ! It's something.
JenP - Dec 31, 2011 4:37:41 pm PST #13856 of 30001
msbelle, I'd suggest also dropping off a resume in person and asking to speak to the hiring manager -- not so much for the actual resume, but because you'll present so very well that it will make a difference (even if you don't speak to that manager, I used to get notes from whoever was on duty with "She was awesome! Call her!" if someone really good came in). It was mostly people who came in and made a good impression that got hired -- I'd either go find their online app or ask them to submit one so I could get them in for an interview. An adult, well-dressed, well-spoken, responsible person was an awesome find in my experience (no offense to young, sloppily dressed, not-so-well-spoken teenagers... they just didn't really do if for me, and they were most of who came in and asked about jobs), and I could never tell that from online. I don't know that hand-delivering a resume is the convention in most of the business world, but it works in retail where I've worked.
ETA: And, you know, that's kind of unfair to some of the younger kids who came in and did it right. There were those, too! Just not the majority, sadly.
§ ita § - Dec 31, 2011 4:41:46 pm PST #13857 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Weirdly, he was robbed 18 hours later, and he's a five minute drive away. They still had my stuff? Okay, gift horse. Keeping it.