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Just checking. It's June, right? And I live in the northern hemisphere? Then why the hell is it 56° out and raining? I really hate it here sometimes. >< If it's a choice between freezing even in four layers of clothing or being sticky and hot, give me the latter. I can't play WoW when my fingers are frozen!! Or write, for that matter.
Speaking of WoW (yes, wasn't that a good segue?), Blizzard is doing another one of their promotions. If you're the least bit interested or curious about this thing that consumes so much of my time, I can send you a link for a free 10-day trial, just let me know. Full disclosure is that if you decide to become a paying member, I get 30 days free. But I don't even care about that, honestly -- I just want more of you guys to play! <g> And the first hit is free! ;)
So last night at work, there was some emergency thing that needed to be posted after hours. My boss was busy, so I took care of it. The final content was sent to me around 6:45pm. I edited and posted the content by 7:15pm. At around 9pm, someone who was on the 7pm thread writes back, seemingly completely clueless, "What's the latest time we can get this to you and still have this posted this evening? We would like stronger approval from Legal..." And I was just like, are you fucking kidding me? Get your acts together! My reply: "You were on thread where we were sent the final content. What is the disconnect here??" AKA, why can't you people do your jobs properly??? No response since then. I was really pissed off by the idea that we would have to take down the content we were sent (a huge PITA) just because these people didn't know how to communicate with each other. I didn't think it was that big a deal, but at our team meeting this morning my teammates were full of admiration. One guy was like, "Wow, you know, you sit there kind of quietly, but you don't take shit from anyone." Okay, you know what, I'm normally kind of quiet because usually I don't care. But when you can potentially ruin my evening due to your own fucking incompetence, then yeah, I will have things to say. It's just funny to me because I don't think any of my friends would actually have been all that surprised by my downright measured response.
So, as y'all know, I really love the manga Hot Gimmick. I just found out that apparently, a novel was written from the manga, which has an 'alternate' ending to the manga itself. It's really irritating on the one hand (I hate the "let's try to please everyone all of the time!" mentality), but on the other hand it's kind of neat to see how influential public opinion can be these days. I still consider the manga to be the official canon, particularly since Miki Aihara didn't even write the novel, she only illustrated it. I'm vaguely curious about the novel, but if it never gets translated to English I'll be fine with it, since I like how the manga ended.
Does anyone else have the bad habit of reading multiple books at one time? I'm constantly doing that, mostly because I'm lazy and don't like to carry books around, so I have one in the car, one in the family room, and one in my bedroom. Also, sometimes I just get in the mood for a certain kind of book. Currently I'm reading: Speaker for the Dead (Orson Scott Card), Gaudy Night (Dorothy Sayers), and American Gods (Neil Gaiman). Very different in tone, and so far I'm enjoying all of them (even if Sayers can be a bit painful at times).
Happy Friday!
Speaking of WoW (yes, wasn't that a good segue?), Blizzard is doing another one of their promotions. If you're the least bit interested or curious about this thing that consumes so much of my time, I can send you a link for a free 10-day trial, just let me know. Full disclosure is that if you decide to become a paying member, I get 30 days free. But I don't even care about that, honestly -- I just want more of you guys to play! <g> And the first hit is free! ;)
So last night at work, there was some emergency thing that needed to be posted after hours. My boss was busy, so I took care of it. The final content was sent to me around 6:45pm. I edited and posted the content by 7:15pm. At around 9pm, someone who was on the 7pm thread writes back, seemingly completely clueless, "What's the latest time we can get this to you and still have this posted this evening? We would like stronger approval from Legal..." And I was just like, are you fucking kidding me? Get your acts together! My reply: "You were on thread where we were sent the final content. What is the disconnect here??" AKA, why can't you people do your jobs properly??? No response since then. I was really pissed off by the idea that we would have to take down the content we were sent (a huge PITA) just because these people didn't know how to communicate with each other. I didn't think it was that big a deal, but at our team meeting this morning my teammates were full of admiration. One guy was like, "Wow, you know, you sit there kind of quietly, but you don't take shit from anyone." Okay, you know what, I'm normally kind of quiet because usually I don't care. But when you can potentially ruin my evening due to your own fucking incompetence, then yeah, I will have things to say. It's just funny to me because I don't think any of my friends would actually have been all that surprised by my downright measured response.
So, as y'all know, I really love the manga Hot Gimmick. I just found out that apparently, a novel was written from the manga, which has an 'alternate' ending to the manga itself. It's really irritating on the one hand (I hate the "let's try to please everyone all of the time!" mentality), but on the other hand it's kind of neat to see how influential public opinion can be these days. I still consider the manga to be the official canon, particularly since Miki Aihara didn't even write the novel, she only illustrated it. I'm vaguely curious about the novel, but if it never gets translated to English I'll be fine with it, since I like how the manga ended.
Does anyone else have the bad habit of reading multiple books at one time? I'm constantly doing that, mostly because I'm lazy and don't like to carry books around, so I have one in the car, one in the family room, and one in my bedroom. Also, sometimes I just get in the mood for a certain kind of book. Currently I'm reading: Speaker for the Dead (Orson Scott Card), Gaudy Night (Dorothy Sayers), and American Gods (Neil Gaiman). Very different in tone, and so far I'm enjoying all of them (even if Sayers can be a bit painful at times).
Happy Friday!
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Date: 2006-06-12 08:20 am (UTC)(Just kidding :p But an enchanter in the party might be a good idea to keep Amelia from winning all those BoP rolls)
(Just kidding again. Maybe)
Yay for American Gods! It's one of my favorite novels. It is the only novel I know where, if you pay attention to the clues, you can guess what is the real name of the protagonist ;)
I'm currently in London, by the way (work, you know) and I'm disappointed it hasn't rained even once :( On the other hand there's so much humidity I can't breathe. And I'm not a big fan of these 4:30 dawns, either >_