If you want to have weekends/holidays/nights off, get one of the millions of jobs that offer these things. Do not, repeat not work for a newspaper and spend your time bitching at the boss/whining to your colleagues about how unfair it is that you have to work on Xmas. Among other things, it irritates the living shit out of people who need to save ( Read more... )

So Rupert Murdoch, the man behind Fox News and the NY Post, is buying Dow Jones. Which means he'll be owning the Wall Street Journal.

Hear that clippity-clop sound? That's the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse out for a trail ride.

Been busy as hell at work lately. Damn all these people who take vacations in the summer and cause scheduling trauma for the rest of us. They got some nerve wanting to have lives ( Read more... )

The NY Times has a really adorable dog essay, featuring beagles, here. It's convinced me that at some point I must write a story in which Hank refers to Darwin's rather dubious "lagomorphocidal instincts." I also particularly love the line about the beagle's natural prey being baguettes, not rabbits.

Just realized this is my 20th fan fic story. All XMM. Never saw that coming when I starting banging out "Great Scott" a couple years ago. Anyway . . .

That’s Entertainment
Rating: T for profanity, snarking
Characters: Logan, Scott, Darwin the Beagle, Lola the Siamese cat
Summary: Everyone defines fun differently ( Read more... )

Lola
Rating: T for profanity
Characters: Jean, Warren, Scott, Darwin the Beagle. Jean POV
Summary: Jean sizes up a new rival.
All standard disclaimers apply. Don’t own them, am making no $$ of them, and I never heard of no X3. All hail Rachel_martin64, the world’s best beta.

( Lola )

Coming in to work to find a colleague changing her baby's diaper on your desk gives a whole new meaning to the phrases, "I don't need this shit," "I don't believe this shit," and "Get your shit off my goddamn desk."

Nothing to say, just thought many of us could use a puppy today.
If you're not in a beagle mood, try:
www.dailypuppy.com
www.puppybreak.com

First, three cheers for seldear, who wrote the deeply fine summers_fling ficathon story "Domestic" (http://community.livejournal.com/summers_fling/11371.html) for me. I cannot believe I've gotten TWO stories that involve knitting -- my little fanfic cup of joy runneth over. And I wish to hell I'd been ( Read more... )

My workplace has apparently decided to enthusiastically celebrate an obscure holiday, "Work ridesandruns to Death Week," which means I'm horribly behind in answering e-mail and the like. My apologies. Will catch up this weekend, I swear. Must go into office early now and fight the urge to bludgeon people ( Read more... )