Hee! Someone on deviantArt said they liked my style! I have a style! (Shut up, Amy). So what if my style is "hack away at the paper until it gives up"? That's a valid choice. I refuse to be shamed...

(Shut up, Amy)

Uh, I said it first. And you don't just hack away at the paper. Stop that.

In Downton news, oh my god do I hate Thomas and O'Brien . But I also think they're written really over the top. There's barely a shade of gray there in either one of them.

We are just finishing up our first cookie boxes. Mmm, Samoas and Tagalongs are my favorites. Oh oh oh! I posted some happy GS cookie squeeing on FB, and my BiL commented some crap about GMOs. Dude, I do NOT point out all the GMOs lurking in his near constant food posts, do I? But I had no choice but to ignore him as he was just looking to bait me.

Cass, I will happily put two aside for you if you want to just send a check.

We have so many samoas it's ridiculous. Last weekend at the end of boothing we had 20 boxes leftover. I cannot tell you how ridiculous my house looked that day -- boxes of cookies and envelopes of cash everywhere. Ask Kristin or Drew, if you don't believe me.

And you don't just hack away at the paper. Stop that.

That's what it feels like with the pen though. It's weird. In the instances when a mistake doesn't ruin the picture, there's almost a physical sensation of "that's not what I meant!" and just scrubbing harder at the paper with the nib until it looks more like what I wanted.

Do you remember back at the very start of me trying to draw again when I did a teensy little foray into pen, and you said you didn't like it as much because it lacked detail? That was inking, not drawing, and it was hesitant pen over hesitant pencil, and that was just piling up weaknesses.

Sometimes now I use pencil guidelines, but they don't necessarily make for a better likeness or picture. That just...sometimes thing happens.

he was just looking to bait me.

It is clearly bait-the-buffista today. At least you chose the high road.

I think I must have tasted the American Girl Scout cookies. But I'm not a big cookie person, if cookies are not chewy and probably oatmeal.

I think my favorite cookies right now are the molasses chews I made a few weeks ago. They were sooo nummy.

Cass, I will happily put two aside for you if you want to just send a check.

Deal. I'll email you.

Oh I hate when people get into GMOs. Because they often aren't very clear what they mean or what the facts are. And I want to bash their facts because they are wrong. I don't totally disagree with their nebulous wishes, but they don't know what exactly they want. Dude, bananas.

I know I'm kinda confusing about what my job is, probably because it's kind of confusing what my job is. My manager loaned out 50% of me to help with communication and now I hear analysis for a director whose job is to analyse status and set strategies and direction. And communicate.

I was a couple days late being able to help him out because of the project management course I went to (uh, totally not my first) this week, and today he asked me if I'd like to present on project management to the company executives. Is this homework? Proof I didn't skive? He's positioning it, amongst other things, as an opportunity for me to get in front of all the execs and sell...me, I guess, but it feels weird. I mean, his job is clearly kind of cool, if he can pick things to tell executives about.

Why do I not have a job like...well, I guess this is adjacent, but still. So, aside from the new slides I have to put together based on CIO feedback today, and the company wide poll I need to do on the title of one of his projects, I also need to work out what fifteen minutes of project management execs most need to know. From me.

Is anyone watching The Carrie Diaries? And I mean that in Buffista terms and larger terms. Apart from the same sex kiss gifset spammed all over my dash and Martha Jones, I know nothing about it. Oh, right-bad hair. Definitely bad hair.

I also need to work out what fifteen minutes of project management execs most need to know.

Do your shit on time, tell us when you cannot do your shit on time and really tell us when you can't do your shit at all.

With better language. They need to know to communicate and that deadlines and goals are interwoven.

Do your shit on time, tell us when you cannot do your shit on time and really tell us when you can't do your shit at all.

I want to give everyone I work with a pretty little plaque with this engraved on it.