Here is a work conversation [overheard]:A: "That was a good doughnut."
B: "Yes! I started digesting it for you."
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B: "You know koala moms feed their babies poop so they'll have the enzymes? That's what I do for you. But I'm not a mom."
-_-;

Here's another:C: [re: something I missed what it is] "There's a phrase for it... S.T.O.N.I.T.H. or ( Read more... )

I did some good things, and I made some mistakes. The mistakes weren't TOO bad, but I think they're the kind that count as "dings" in somebody's notes. You know, like when the interviewer decides you won't get the job because you fidgeted too much or said you liked dubstep or something ( Read more... )

Things I wanted to note about work that aren't very interesting to anybody but I don't care ( Read more... )

My pre-interview interview was almost entirely not like Hysteric Blue's video for "Grow Up ( Read more... )

This actually seems not noteworthy, considering, but I'll note it anyway because that's what I do. [Also, for that whole "making conversation" shit that's supposedly so important to forming strong relationships... I LURV YUO INTARWEBZ!!!1 ( Read more... )

More yet-unfinished thoughts:

1. Diana Wynne Jones died this morning, which sucks =/ but... circle of life and all that. I know I'm kind of detached in this respect, but it's a coping mechanism. I don't know how I'd manage if I let every single death EVER get to me.
   
   
2. Link from my brother: Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior [read before criticizing ( Read more... )

I wish I could declare a moratorium on new ideas until I can finish older ones, but nooooooooooooooooo... X/ ...anyway, I started picking at the beach comic first panel, mostly because there is a scene from Hagaren [鋼の錬金術師--I'm being snobbish at the moment] that always garners a grin out of me for a reason I won't spell out just yet. All you need ( Read more... )

Senior Accountant! I am okay with this new guy they picked... long as I get to stay <=p

I managed to nick some food this time. It's surprisingly difficult to do properly--without completely ruining the food as well as not looking like a complete moocher in the process 6_6; I mean, breakfast things are relatively easy to nick, since they're by and ( Read more... )

Oddly enough:

HowManyOfMe.com
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So my childhood struggle against my mother--and this is not designed to be a jab at her but an explanation of my plight--has been this whole "dressing nice" biznatch and how I can't. Not easily, at least. I think my mother had this idea that I would grow up to be her living Barbie doll [as a lot of parents with delusions of living vicariously ( Read more... )