No studying? Damn! Next thing they'll tell me is I'll have to eat jelly doughnuts or sleep with a supermodel to get things done around here. I ask you, how much can one man give?

Xander ,'Conversations with Dead People'


Natter 74: Ready or Not  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


-t - Jan 18, 2016 11:51:01 am PST #13613 of 30003
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Obviously, she did not expect you to expect compliance.

We are all the time trying to train people (coworkers, that is) to put important information in the subject line so we don't have to open emails that don't pertain to us (my company has a culture of replying-all all the time, and spamming a whole department rather than finding out which individual you need to contact, I get a ton of mail that I can just ignore if I know what it's about). Repeating it in the body of the email is a pretty good practice, though. Not that you get to decide that, I understand, Tep. Annoying all the way around.

My mom had the bone density thing done, but I forget what the procedure was like (if she told me. I know she told me that the doctor told her her bone density was low and was therefore decreasing and she countered that probably it had always been low, they'd never checked it before, but I don't know any other details)

I have done nothing today except feed myself and read mysteries. I have been a Very Hungry Caterpillar all day, for some reason.


Zenkitty - Jan 18, 2016 12:37:12 pm PST #13614 of 30003
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.

Ugh, Steph. The eternal battle to get educated professionals to actually read the entire goddam email.

And to find exactly the right balance between not enough information in the subject line, and writing the entire email in the subject line. Everyone wants something different.


-t - Jan 18, 2016 12:52:03 pm PST #13615 of 30003
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

OK, got all my cutting boards washed and bleached some grout. Not as dramatic an improvement as I hoped for, that second one. Oh well.

I'm getting dangerously close to the point where I have to think about where I want things to be stored rather than just stashing them wherever there happens to be room right now. That's going to slow things down considerably.


Lee - Jan 18, 2016 1:12:11 pm PST #13616 of 30003
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.

How do they do that, Lee?

It's sort of a cross between an x-ray and a cat scan. You don't have to be inside the tube, since they were only checking my spine and hips and the imaging device can be focused there, but they made me lie down and strapped my feet down so I couldn't move them out of pigeon toed position.


shrift - Jan 18, 2016 1:37:18 pm PST #13617 of 30003
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty

I've been idly searching for indoor planters for succulents, and I think I must own Totoro and Catbus: [link]


Burrell - Jan 18, 2016 1:38:21 pm PST #13618 of 30003
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!

Sounds uncomfortable, Lee, but I hope you get good results.

So I did get a bunch of work done, but still need to finish it up. And kids both got their homework finished before dinner, so they get to file the weekend as a win.


Burrell - Jan 18, 2016 1:39:29 pm PST #13619 of 30003
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!

nice, shrift!


Juliebird - Jan 18, 2016 1:50:50 pm PST #13620 of 30003
I am the fly who dreams of the spider

We are all the time trying to train people (coworkers, that is) to put important information in the subject line

Our ED titles all his emails as "First name here". Boss man doesn't read past the first two words, gets bored or sees something shiny, never looks at it again, declares you never sent it, admits he doesn't read them, and doesn't apologize. He does this with texts as well. It's four words!


Kat - Jan 18, 2016 2:26:58 pm PST #13621 of 30003
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

When I was in school our social studies/history teacher would show us a video of the "I Have A Dream" speech every year on the 15th. This year I was happy to hear that my son's 5th grade teacher showed it to her class on Friday, which was of course the 15th.

I've taught this and we have watched it. I also have shared a NYT piece that looks at how the most famous part of the speech is improvised. [link] The part he had prewritten was very different in tone and rhetoric.

But what you can see in the video is after Mahalia Jackson says, "Tell them about the dream, Martin", Dr. King puts the speech aside on the lecturn and from there his language changes. So cool.


-t - Jan 18, 2016 2:50:38 pm PST #13622 of 30003
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Those planters are super cute.

I hope you get favorable results, Lee.

I do not want to move onto cleaning out my kitchen drawers. Maybe I will put that off. I am also having trouble getting myself psyched up to go out to dinner, but if I am going to try all the restaurants participating in Restaurant Week I really need to.

Maybe if I start with feeding the cats I ca keep that momentum going.