Yay ready for movers!
You got fired, and you still hang around here like a big loser. Why can't he?
Cordelia ,'Chosen'
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.
tommyrot - Jan 20, 2012 6:56:22 am PST #17355 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
sj - Jan 20, 2012 7:00:05 am PST #17356 of 30001
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Lee, tons of moving~ma for today!
Ginger - Jan 20, 2012 7:06:22 am PST #17357 of 30001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
I thought many helpful thoughts at you, Lee. Really.
Good luck with the move.
§ ita § - Jan 20, 2012 7:17:56 am PST #17358 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
You can do it, Lee!
I am so the anti-motivator. I'd be all "Sit down! Drink some more! Where are your Community DVDs again? Enh, moving, whatever".
I was on the phone with the tester, and she suddenly screamed and said that I needed to be in the office stat. The source of her discomfiture? The project manager's shoes. He's wearing them today because his boss is out--he's already been called into her office and told to tone it down for other shoes.
It took them five minutes of futzing and two iPhones, but they sent me the picture, and my response was "That was on purpose?? You weren't mugged by a graffiti artist on acid?"
He took it pretty well, considering how hideously rude that was.
I considered uploading the pic to share with you, but I thought that would be overly invasive. So I googled "really colourful Asics", and they were result #6.
Amy - Jan 20, 2012 7:24:34 am PST #17359 of 30001
Because books.
My eyes are dilating right now, but whoa shoes and yay Lee!
tommyrot - Jan 20, 2012 7:28:15 am PST #17360 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Those shoes look like they escaped from Yellow Submarine.
§ ita § - Jan 20, 2012 7:32:14 am PST #17361 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Ugh! I'm blanking--what's the name of the NY gay (dead) artist who does really simple stylised colourful drawings (usually of people in abstracted almost-stick figurish forms)? My god, my social circle was obsessed with him when I was in university, and I've been to his store in NY a million...oh, idiot ita !, you have one of his children's books .... Keith Haring!
Yes, it's like Keith Haring on (even more) hallucinogenics.
(Vendor developer, when our tester tells you our SMTP server takes 30 seconds to respond to your setup, don't suggest you time out earlier--we're your customers. You don't code to explicitly exclude us)
Strix - Jan 20, 2012 7:34:09 am PST #17362 of 30001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
MY EYES MY EYES!!!!
Okay, I just got told off by previously unseen neighbor across the hall for being rude (i.e., sticking my head out my door at 3:30 in the morning to see who was speaking in raised voices right in front of it, and asking her apparently drunk guest to keep it down).
Oh princess, you're going to want to be in our landlord's office bright and early tomorrow morning for the discussion about exactly what is and isn't rude.
WTF? Oh, yes, Matt -- go polite-postal on her ass. Princess needs a verbal spanking. Rude? You? Nope, babybee -- that Manolo is on YOUR foot.
Jesse - Jan 20, 2012 7:40:14 am PST #17363 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
ita, your job is crazy. It sounds kind of great?
Matt the Bruins fan - Jan 20, 2012 7:50:35 am PST #17364 of 30001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Yeah, the property Controller's jaw dropped and then she laughed with me about the gall. She said their first step is to issue a general reminder about being considerate of neighbors so as to avoid singling any one tenant out. I'm not sure that will be effective, as Princess may not make the connection between that and her own obviously in-the-right behavior last night. (Though if she's self-aware enough for it to dawn on her she'll know it was me that complained. And I'm fine with that; I ceased to care about her opinion of me about 45 seconds into our first meeting.)