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[AugustWest]

I'll come up with a series of empassioned snap judgements based on very limited knowledge. It is kinda what I'm best at.

Here's a can for painfully honest self-evaluation!

[theinevitable]

oh man, he totally picked a really awesome combination of people. I am excited. The one problem is that in some places he eliminated positions rather than filling them with people who we didn't want in there for various reasons... and I feel like those people are going to be bitter.

but, I mean, one girl came in and said "I know I'm not sleeping with anyone on exec staff, and I'm not in your girlfriend's sorority, but I still think I have what it takes to do this job better than (her competitor who is dating the jazz director, is in his girlfriend's sorority, and is infinitely better than her in every way)." That girl did not need to have a job.

So yeah, now I realize that he also didn't give our other roommate any position, and in fact didn't fill the position he applied for. Drama is heading our way.

[Doc]

So yeah, now I realize that he also didn't give our other roommate any position, and in fact didn't fill the position he applied for. Drama is heading our way.

But at least this bodes well for his faith in your ability?

"I know I'm not sleeping with anyone on exec staff, and I'm not in your girlfriend's sorority, but I still think I have what it takes to do this job better than (her competitor who is dating the jazz director, is in his girlfriend's sorority, and is infinitely better than her in every way)."

Yeah, if the only reason you can think of for someone else to have the job instead of you is nepotism chances are you don't have a balanced evaluation of your own abilities.

[wombat]

  But it also says "Warning!  Irritant!"  Which really should be posted on the front of all non-foods based foodstuffs, and before every episode of that ungodly Ghost Whisperer show.

Oh man, there need to be stickers that say this, and I need to buy them in packages of a thousand.

[theinevitable]

doc-- also, the fact that she would say that to his face made him so, so mad.
Also he was entertained by the idea that maybe our college radio station is really pro-sorority. Because... does that sound likely?

[jaydub]

I once worked with a plastic compound that had the most innocuous Material Safety Data Sheet ever.  The worst that could be said about its health effects was "May cause mechanical irritation if inserted in the eye".

[Pedro Picasso]

Geeze, I used to love it when we got some of them safe ones. At one point my lot was usually stuff that just said it's gonna kill you and then hang around for the next 4 generations so it can kill them too.

And then burn a hole to the molten core of the earth.

Alright.  Who ordered Ash a case of HappyFunBall?

[Doc]

I've found it's kind of funny how complacent one becomes after a while about handling carcinogens and similar.

I may not find it so funny in about 20 years though.

[theinevitable]

so, WashU student union treasury have managed to enrage me. I am not an angry person. I understand a lot of their rationale for cutting our budget, as much as I dislike it. But when you treat my friends/people in general with disrespect I lose it.

They wouldn't give our personnel director, who is a treasury member, a freaking PEE BREAK. He had to run out of the meeting in fear of missing a vote (and he actually did miss one) because they couldn't take a 1 minute bathroom break in a 5 hour meeting. Multiple of my friends came back almost in tears after being cut off midway through a sentence, after having their hand raised for at least an hour.

I have been going on too many rants lately (and the optimal number of rants on TOUAMB is "1 per year tops") so I will end here.

[wombat]

Geeze, I used to love it when we got some of them safe ones. At one point my lot was usually stuff that just said it's gonna kill you and then hang around for the next 4 generations so it can kill them too.

And then burn a hole to the molten core of the earth.

Hey, I think that's the disinfectant that we use at work.

[Pedro Picasso]

They wouldn't give our personnel director, who is a treasury member, a freaking PEE BREAK. He had to run out of the meeting in fear of missing a vote (and he actually did miss one) because they couldn't take a 1 minute bathroom break in a 5 hour meeting. Multiple of my friends came back almost in tears after being cut off midway through a sentence, after having their hand raised for at least an hour.

They are not in the business of treasury.  They are in the business of screwing you guys.  If there is something you need from that organization, I would recommend appealing to a higher authority or finding a way to get what you need elsewhere.  You might also consider encouraging the local drama group to invade the next meeting hippie-freakout style, bang pots for a while, and then leave with no trace.

And anyway, if you can't rant to your imaginary friends ON THE INTERNET where can you rant?

[Pedro Picasso]

...wonder whether or not I should buy a set of Lone Wolf books and entertain hopes that my kids will grow up as nerdy as I did.

[jay-ell]

Think of who their mother is. 

Then think of the odds of them not being nerdier. 

Also: maybe we should wait until one of them learns to read. 

[linnea]

I haven't been around lately because I've been busy and trying to make shit happen at work. I just got a promotion and a transfer to a new division and a 10% raise, so you cats might not see me around too often.  Today I had the day off (woo! Thank you, flex schedule), and I baked some pear bread. Tomorrow I'm supposed to go to a Scotch tasting but the people who were supposed to go with me have bitched out, so I haven't decided if I'm going to go by myself or just stay home.

[wombat]

I haven't been around lately because I've been busy and trying to make shit happen at work. I just got a promotion and a transfer to a new division and a 10% raise, so you cats might not see me around too often.  Today I had the day off (woo! Thank you, flex schedule), and I baked some pear bread. Tomorrow I'm supposed to go to a Scotch tasting but the people who were supposed to go with me have bitched out, so I haven't decided if I'm going to go by myself or just stay home.

Hey! Hello! Congrats!