I picked up an extra project at work. Something with ads: a little outside my purview, but not outside my ability or even my knowledge: so it's no problem. What is, or may be, a problem is that my supervisor has expressed a commitment to rewarding me somehow if I end up doing overtime as a result of this ( Read more... )

About a week ago, I answered a question, "What religion are you?" with a few choice sentences pulled out of thin air. Drawing deliberately from some of my favorite bits of fiction, I intentionally chose effective expressions of my ideas in a way that neatly summarized them. I've been thinking about trying to expand that into a full-out essay, but I ( Read more... )

I think it might be something in between... The talker is partly responsible and the listener is partly responsible ( Read more... )