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I didn’t even realize till Thursday that the office is closed on Monday. Bonus three-day weekend! There aren’t words for how jacked I am about that. (I once told a company-wide meeting at Interweave that I was jacked about the magazine’s redesign [summer issue]. Whole room cracked up. Then people told me I was refreshing. Clearly the office needs a vocab shakedown. Any suggestions? It’s my goal in life never to utter business buzz-words, and it’s horrifying how difficult that can be. Not that being jacked about something is a replacement for a business term. Right. A long parenthetical in the opening paragraph. Where’s this going?)
In my short-term stint drowning myself in vampires and werewolves and a whiny teenage girl, I finished Eclipse last night (Goodreads is down for maintenance as I write this; sorry for no link). Gotta say, it’s almost as if Stephenie Meyer phased into some new kind of writer halfway through the book. The first half was reminiscent of the slow and steady and lacking New Moon: Bella Swan (the man asked me last night if she was an ugly duckling; I took a second and rolled my eyes and was like, oh, right) was just as annoying, and I again wanted more story development. But then things picked up around halfway through, and the book became a true page turner by the end. I was riveted. And since the riveting parts weren’t about falling in love with a vampire who is arguably the most painfully perfect man ever to exist in the history of literature, it must be that Meyer found her action-adventure legs. That a love story was intertwined in all the suspense and spectacular gore was pretty much perfection. Emotions ran high, and I was glued to my couch. So I’m glad I persisted, and will start on the fourth (and, thankfully, final — because really? I’m thirty-two years old and I have a lot of stuff going on right now and I could do without spending every free moment reading this stuff) book later today.
Just found your blog through Emma’s and wanted to thank you for the darn good read. Many points resonated but the biz vocab thing is just so painfully true it hurts. Boo on jargon, yay on being refreshing! You didn’t lose me. Bullet by bullet, I totally hear you. Thanks!! L:
hilarious picture. Anyway, I use disqus on my tumblr blog– no issues, easy to set up… That’s all I have to say.
since you spoke of disqus recently (on twitter maybe?) i’ve been thinking about it. it seems like a great tool! i wish there was more information on their wesbite in front of the login though. i hate that. anyway, since i’m waiting to upgrade my entire site to EE in the sprint i’ll have to check it out then :)
in the spring!! but it may be a sprint, i’m not sure :)
“Refreshing”? Ay yi. They mos def need a vocab overhaul.
Extremely silly and highly entertaining RPG: Kingdom of Loathing. It may be more fun if you have some sort of background/knowledge of RPG tropes, which I imagine you probably culturally absorbed even if you never played one. Haven’t played in a while, but I was a Disco Bandit. It was awesome.
You've *got* to check out It's always sunny…”- it is quite hilarious- no holds barred and very non-PC. My fave episode is “Dennis & Dee go on welfare”….
It's on my list! I'm psyched to check it out.
A couple days late, but that's your fault because while at an airport far too late in my work day on Tuesday, I bought Twilight and can barely get myself together enough to make tea in the morning (or get to work for that matter). (It's your fault because I had been staring at the book with what little hipster contempt I can muster, and one more reference to it being addictive did me in, because I'm not a reader of vampire stuff, for whatever reason. And of course with leaning on Vampire Weekend for music, I feel like a bigger traitor to my non-vampire stance. [By listening to Vampire Weekend I am also proving that I am latecomer, and no longer anything like a hipster, I am the 30-year-old in a club full of drunk 21-year-olds.]) Non-jargon phrases I love to use at work because they get reactions: “hunker down” (I think it's the way it sounds) and “diddle fart” (my dad's phrase and completely inappropriate, and perfect for the latter reason). It's Always Sunny… is wildly inappropriate and utterly brilliant. I loved the first season (it was a bit toned down back then), and in the second season they just dared people to look away. In fact, while sitting here trying to ignore my need to finish Twilight, and wanting to finish knitting a hat (to finish making something, anything), I've realized that the only thing that could pull me from Twilight would be It's Always Sunny… God I love those folks. At least it's Friday and I'm going to the Chocolate Festival on Sunday. Although, by that time I will have finished Twilight, bought the next book, decided that none of my friends deserve baby or wedding blanket gifts and I should spend all of my time… Read more »
Heh. Just don't read my review of the whole series till you're finished. But do take heart that, given that we seem to have fairly similar tastes, you *might* end up hating the books and hating yourself for continuing to read them the further along you get. I actually found that dynamic made my reading a lot more stimulating than it would have been without the constant, simultaneous analysis.
Always Sunny is at the top of our list, now.
I'm insanely jealous about your attending a chocolate festival. So, you know, I'm suffering too.
Yeah, well, I didn't move on to New Moon. I already have a difficult time with teens (although I love the Buffy teens), so a break was needed. But it's sort of like a festering scab right now. I so desperately want to dive back into the addiction, because of the high I remember, but I'm worried that I'll stumble out scathed because of how I felt by the end of Twilight. But I'm not reading your review, I want to, but I'm being good until I finish or give up.
And the chocolate festival was highly overrated. Although, San Francisco was oddly sunny, and therefore stunning if not in the Tenderloin.
Yeah, well, I didn't move on to New Moon. I already have a difficult time with teens (although I love the Buffy teens), so a break was needed. But it's sort of like a festering scab right now. I so desperately want to dive back into the addiction, because of the high I remember, but I'm worried that I'll stumble out scathed because of how I felt by the end of Twilight. But I'm not reading your review, I want to, but I'm being good until I finish or give up.
And the chocolate festival was highly overrated. Although, San Francisco was oddly sunny, and therefore stunning if not in the Tenderloin.
I’m behind on picture-a-day challenge that I set myself, too. I don’t worry about it that much anymore because really, how many pictures of random crap do people want to look at?
I just got back from doing a shocking amount of laundry. Well, less shocking and more “really a pain in the butt to drag to the laundromat and back considering it’s August in MD.”
Just found your blog through Emma’s and wanted to thank you for the darn good read. Many points resonated but the biz vocab thing is just so painfully true it hurts. Boo on jargon, yay on being refreshing! You didn’t lose me. Bullet by bullet, I totally hear you. Thanks!! L:
hilarious picture. Anyway, I use disqus on my tumblr blog– no issues, easy to set up… That’s all I have to say.
since you spoke of disqus recently (on twitter maybe?) i’ve been thinking about it. it seems like a great tool! i wish there was more information on their wesbite in front of the login though. i hate that. anyway, since i’m waiting to upgrade my entire site to EE in the sprint i’ll have to check it out then :)
in the spring!! but it may be a sprint, i’m not sure :)
“Refreshing”? Ay yi. They mos def need a vocab overhaul.
Extremely silly and highly entertaining RPG: Kingdom of Loathing. It may be more fun if you have some sort of background/knowledge of RPG tropes, which I imagine you probably culturally absorbed even if you never played one. Haven’t played in a while, but I was a Disco Bandit. It was awesome.
I’m behind on picture-a-day challenge that I set myself, too. I don’t worry about it that much anymore because really, how many pictures of random crap do people want to look at?
I just got back from doing a shocking amount of laundry. Well, less shocking and more “really a pain in the butt to drag to the laundromat and back considering it’s August in MD.”