So, how was your summer? Mine was fun. Saw some fish. Went mad with hunger. Hallucinated a whole bunch.

Angel ,'Conviction (1)'


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.


Tom Scola - Jan 17, 2012 1:36:56 pm PST #16851 of 30001
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

YAY!!!


hippocampus - Jan 17, 2012 1:37:35 pm PST #16852 of 30001
not your mom's socks.

YAY!!!!


Scrappy - Jan 17, 2012 1:38:03 pm PST #16853 of 30001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

Check you OUT with your employed self!!!!!


-t - Jan 17, 2012 1:39:12 pm PST #16854 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

HOORAY MSBELLE!!!!

Good luck with your mom's wbc, ita. I don't know anything about that, but I am rooting for her numbers to go up where they are supposed to be.


Jesse - Jan 17, 2012 1:41:03 pm PST #16855 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

WOO HOO MSBELLE!!

Watching Ellen, and Timothy Olyphant is one of the few actors I think is even more attractive out of character. Mmmmm.

Also, I just read the cutest email from my cousin applying to be a teen advisor to a project at my job. Aw!


§ ita § - Jan 17, 2012 1:41:18 pm PST #16856 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

So far my sister blames herself, and no doubt my mother blames *herself*. I haven't asked my father whose fault he thinks it is yet, but at least I'm pretty sure I'm off the hook. My mother, with disdain for how disease calls the shots, and incredible optimism and a desire to not act like a sicky (hey, maybe my sister should sit her down and make her watch The Princess Bride--instant lead balloon--while we stuff her full of leafy greens) had laid out a schedule around her chemo that had her lecturing and marking again. Given she's useless chemo week and she's now one week off, all that will have to be re-jiggered.

Translation would be highly appreciated, Burrell, as are everyone's good wishes and consolation.

Oh, good god, msbelle. That's the best two week wait ever! Good on you! (Have you done anything highly illegal you need erased off your records, stat? I mean, not that I know how, but I understand...stuff happens)

I just had to send out an email with a bit of "Why the fuck isn't everyone at the same alert level as I am?" The middle went like this:

The first change is “OMG, Compliance violations! Fix this now!” level of priority, and the second is somewhere around “That’s no good—we should fix it while we’re fixing the other stuff.”¹ Our goal is to complete QA by this Friday, so if you could do your darndest to get the queries modified and back into QA as soon as you can, it would be highly appreciated. And then there’s the vendor wiping of QA, etc.

Also—the query that generates who’s qualified and who’s not should be run before our next “initial” file feed. (for your interest, I rank that at “Well, if we do it now, we don’t need to remember to do it later.”)

¹: If you need my full priority list, please don’t hesitate to ask.

Get on it, people!


amych - Jan 17, 2012 1:41:29 pm PST #16857 of 30001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

YAY MSBELLE!!!!


Liese S. - Jan 17, 2012 1:43:36 pm PST #16858 of 30001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

YAY MSBELLE CONGRATS!


Amy - Jan 17, 2012 1:45:47 pm PST #16859 of 30001
Because books.

ita, it's nobody's fault but the cancer. And we all know cancer sucks. No blame. She's going to be okay.

msbelle, you clearly wowed them. Congratulations!


Sophia Brooks - Jan 17, 2012 1:48:42 pm PST #16860 of 30001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

YAY MSBELLE!

I have my fingers crossed for ita's mother, but I have no knowledge to share. I hope you can connect with the translators.