Posts made by Aria

@aria said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

I swear by all that is holy and all that is profane, it is going to take every ounce of willpower that I have not to straight up murder my teammates for an MBA project.

Being as I majored in English for undergrad and literally just accepted a job whose business jargon title translates into "I'm going to write change communications for tech bros who speak beep-boop fluently but don't know when to use capital letters", I volunteered to act as editor and proofreader for everyone else in the group.

After reviewing, editing, and standardizing the entire piece, I uploaded it only to discover....

Two of my teammates just straight up copied shit from the internet. Not even a sentence. I mean entire paragraphs slightly adjusted with the liberal use of a thesaurus.

WHAT THE FUCKING FUCK, DUDES?

You had to write all of three paragraphs each. That's it! You had a whole week to do it! It didn't even need to be written well. It just needed to either not be copied or have links dumped into the appropriate areas so I could create the citations for you.

If I hadn't read the SafeAssign originality report, we would all be failing this assignment at the very, very least.

What did I say two weeks ago, guys? What did I say?!

YOU CANNOT JUST COPY AND PASTE SHIT FROM THE INTERNET YOU ARE IN GRAD SCHOOL WHAT THE FUCK HOW MANY TIMES DO I HAVE TO SAY THIS I'M NOT THE TA FOR THIS CLASS.

@sunny said in RL Anger:

Office 365 ducking changed where the buttons are again and THIS TIME I can't put them back. grrrrrrrrrrrrr.

Atlassian is no different. Sometimes, updates are super functional and exciting and my whole team squees about it....

Other times, I squint at my screen and am like, "Atlassian is fucking with all of us because they're bored, aren't they?" This week's utterly random Confluence updates that make everything look different while still be stupid af about adding files to Confluence pages sometimes but not other times stand as evidence.

@tinuviel

Look. LOOK. Sometimes sacrifices have to be made. No one likes it. It's still necessary.

@ganymede said in RL things I love:

What I meant to insinuate is not about gender; rather, it was that one should find someone resourceful enough to be useful. Because there's really no excuse not to be, in my opinion, for household tasks.

Accurate.

Though I still maintain that someone who sends you cheese instead of flowers after a date is marriage material. Unless they know you're lactose intolerant, in which case they're a monster.

@roz Goddammit, my reaction to this is an immediate, hilarious, almost visceral recollection of an experience I had as a teenager and I can't say it without hinting at your PC's secret.

@ganymede said in RL things I love:

@aria said in RL things I love:

You're welcome for the solid life advice here, everyone.

A man?

I do the lawn mowing. The gardening. The furniture-making. The cooking. The plumbing. Cleaning, often. Washing and folding clothes. Putting the kids to bed.

Of course, my partner is also a lawyer-PA combo, so she be smart as fuck, but --

-- yeah, get you an anybody who will get off their ass and not be a helpless fuck. And for fuck's sake, I learned how to fix the washer and dryer through YouTube, along with changing oil, a car battery, and a flat tire on the side of the road.

THERE IS NO DAMN EXCUSE FOR ANYONE TO NOT KNOW THESE BASIC THINGS.

I mean....

I'm a woman (mostly? kind of? let's go with mostly and also "no one will ever look at me and think 'guy' or even 'non-binary no matter what I do'" because gender is complicated and society is fat-phobic and also dumb) and I also fix the shower, fix the air conditioning, self-diagnose wheel bearings crapping out in my car, manage all our finances, argue with the mechanic about why he's a wrong-face idiot who is an idiot that is also wrong (motherfucker, my car does not need power-steering fluid when I have clearly told you it's electric power-steering), and plenty of other household-slash-life maintenance things that our culture normally ascribes to dudes. On a trip to Lowe's a few years ago, I remember staring at the cashier who asked me if I was "picking up things on my husband's shopping list" right in the face and announcing "Are you kidding? He doesn't even know what a cartridge puller is. My husband is at home washing my laundry."

I said a man because we were literally talking about a guy (he) who bought a girl (the OP's sister) a wheel of cheese and their reaction to that, including our mocking the bullshit heteronormative standards of the fairytale romance narrative, which push the idea of grand gestures and, frequently, stalking or abusive behavior over the practical aspects of building a life together.

And also because my work bestie is a straight girl who is all about that dick, so. Y'know. Catering to my original audience.

I now present "An Actual Conversations with My Work Bestie: Discourses on Love in the Modern Era."

Her:

Me: MARRY THAT MAN. All these silly girls who are like, "I want romantic declarations! I want to be swept off my feet! I want the fairytale!" No, bitch. No.

Her: Um, clearly the answer to happiness is to date on FarmersOnly.

Me: My husband has never been sexier than the time he walked into our bedroom and announced "I fixed the problem with the plumbing. You can shower again." except for maybe the time he baked cookies without me asking.

Her: One hundred percent!

Me: Get you a man who fixes your house and brings you food. #priorities

You're welcome for the solid life advice here, everyone.

Student discounts, when I actually remember them.

It's so weird to be in my mid-30s and be like "Haha! STUDENT COUPONS FOR MY JEANS, FUCKERS." But I also love it, so.

@tinuviel said in Dead Celebrities 2021 Edition:

It probably would, assuming Charles follows precedent and his heir becomes the Prince of Wales. That said he'd also still be the Duke of Cambridge, so it's possible that George would use it as a courtesy title.

Yeah, that's the part where I get a bit confused. Like you said, Charles also used "Wales" as a surname when he was in the military rather than using his father's title, Duke of Edinburgh. But I assume that this is because the title Prince of Wales is higher in precedence than his father's title of Duke.

@tinuviel said in Dead Celebrities 2021 Edition:

@rinel said in Dead Celebrities 2021 Edition:

are there actually rules

Yes, there are. Lots of them.

When a royal needs to use a surname, they don't generally use their house, they use the name of their title. Prince Charles uses Wales, as did his sons prior to gaining their own titles, for instance.

It's actually even more complicated than that!

In 1917, the family adopted the surname "Windsor" by the order of then-King George V. Sometime in the early 1950s, the Queen amended that order to Mountbatten-Windsor to reflect Prince Phillip's family name, but it only applies to her descendants. However, that's a surname that he adopted from his mother in the 1940s after WWII because, y'know, for some reason the Brits were feeling super salty about the Germans and didn't really want a royal consort running around named Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, as @hedgehog mentioned.

However, @Tinuviel is also correct in that several royals use surnames derived from their father's title on institutional paperwork. Like he said, both of Charles' sons used Wales as a derivative of their father's title of Prince of Wales and George, William's son, uses George Cambridge at school, because his father is the Duke of Cambridge. Whether or not that would change when Lizzie passes and everyone moves up a rank in the succession, I don't know....

Because there are, in fact, a lot of rules. But when you're the royal family, you also just get to make those rules up because fuck it, you can. And that's basically the same thing as not having any rules at all, @Rinel.

In short, everyone is technically correct. Which as we know, is the best kind of correct.

I swear by all that is holy and all that is profane, it is going to take every ounce of willpower that I have not to straight up murder my teammates for an MBA project.

Being as I majored in English for undergrad and literally just accepted a job whose business jargon title translates into "I'm going to write change communications for tech bros who speak beep-boop fluently but don't know when to use capital letters", I volunteered to act as editor and proofreader for everyone else in the group.

After reviewing, editing, and standardizing the entire piece, I uploaded it only to discover....

Two of my teammates just straight up copied shit from the internet. Not even a sentence. I mean entire paragraphs slightly adjusted with the liberal use of a thesaurus.

WHAT THE FUCKING FUCK, DUDES?

You had to write all of three paragraphs each. That's it! You had a whole week to do it! It didn't even need to be written well. It just needed to either not be copied or have links dumped into the appropriate areas so I could create the citations for you.

If I hadn't read the SafeAssign originality report, we would all be failing this assignment at the very, very least.

@jibberthehut I approve of this cat.

What I did today.

@silverfox said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:

@aria

Mine lasted only about 24 hours, so you should be okay if yours follows like mine does. (I had exactly the same symptoms, minus the allergy stuff.

Yeah, I very deliberately scheduled us for Thursday night, figuring we'd start to feel like garbage late Friday and could just spend the weekend hiding under blankets and napping, then be fine by Monday.

The amazing thing is, insomniac FINALLY found another (not great, but hey it's a) job....

....the bad news is they asked him to start today, after we already had our appointments. It's, uhhhh.... going to be a hell of a first impression, I'm sure.

@silverfox said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:

I had no problem with the first Pfizer shot beyond hella painful arm, but I was hot garbage after the second.

^ First Pfizer shot was fine. Sore arm that was no worse than my flu shot last fall, kinda tired for a day or so. Got the second shot last night. I was fine this morning (nine hours ago), not even a sore arm, but as of about three hours ago, I have a headache, am exhausted, random muscles hurt, and I've got goosebumps and the shivers sitting in a sunny 78* room. The rest of my symptoms (cough, runny nose, sore throat) I assume are from spring allergies hitting me at the same time, 'cause all the trees and flowers are fucking and my eyes started itching last weekend.

Dealing with both at the same time is going to be.... interesting.

This is a really stupid thing to be excited about, but I got one of those plastic-donut things for putting your hair up in a bun, even when your hair is fine and stupid and would only make a little hair nugget if you tried to put it in a bun on your own.

I cut my hair super short when I was about 14? 15? and kept that pixie cut for well over a decade, so I missed out on all of those years when it seems like every other woman on the planet figures out how to manage her own hair. As I've spent the last few years growing it out to past my shoulders, I've also had to (sometimes rather embarrassingly) spend my 30s figuring out how this all actually works.

Now I'm like, "Waaaaaaaaaaaaaait..... I can outside in the summer and not immediately look like an electrified poodle?! AWESOME."

It's a really, really stupid little thing to be excited about, but given the year insomniac and I have had.... fuck it, I'll take it.

(Note: Ponytails are not an option due to the spectacular "young Samuel, the colonial youth excited to start his new apprenticeship at the printer's press" vibe I give off when wearing one.)

I thought this was a super, super cool idea!

But if I'm being brutally honest....

I am also old enough to remember White Wolf's "Year of the Lotus" and decided that the white lady should probably slowly back away from the terrible racist stereotypes that people were likely to end up playing, accidentally or otherwise. Probably (mostly) accidentally, but still. Especially given the sharp increase in anti-Asian sentiment that a lot of Asian-Americans are dealing with in the last year.

I just bought concert tickets for the first time in well over a year and am completely losing my shit.

@surreality Nope! Craft Smart's Multi Ombre Yarn in "Orchard Mist" mixed with Lion Brand's Homespun in "Waterfall".

What sort of monster gives students a four hour math exam?