@Carex said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:
@Kestrel
Also, remember, once she is inside your house you can shoot her dead. Just make sure she is fully inside the residence. If you have a restraining order out on her and she breaks into your home, you have a license to kill.Just finish the job. Shoot her at least three times at range, wait about a minute, call 911 while she bleeds out, try to sound like you're confused and in shock.
You scare me 
@Lisse24 She is excellent. I own her book but only by her kindness. It is called "how to be an academic" or is in Australia. It has another title in US. I couldn't find a copy to buy that wasn't large print, and so she posted one to me!
@Lisse24 Very true! It seems to be a shocking idea to my colleagues that we take lunch, that we don't work on the weekend and that people don't call us on AL. Have you guys read the thesis whisperer? It is about university but... relevant
@Tinuviel said in The Work Thread:
Well since we've turned this into the teacher thread, for the moment... I need to be more organised. I set year long assignments for a few of my classes at the beginning of the year. Now I have to grade them all in a week to get the reports done in time because I'm an idiot.
I feel your pain. I agreed to move the assessment to today, and then just now realised that the board is on monday and I have to write a report. Before Monday. Bollocks.
My first class of students had their test today. Some (who came to class regularly) did brilliantly, and others... well, least said. But it was exciting and exhausting!
@Pandora Oh god, I am entirely twitched about the idea of Fred West being in the shower... @Auspice SAVE YOURSELF!
@Auspice said in Lisse24's Playlist:
@Arkandel said in Lisse24's Playlist:
TL;DR: I don't mind Ares' way of constructing scenes.
I prefer them because of my limited hours. Most of my RP takes multiple days to complete because I don't sit down to RP until 7 or 8pm most nights and I start feeling zzzzzzz between 9 and 10pm. That's a pretty narrow window to play!
And it solves the US/EU problem for me! I have two scenes going with two US based players who, without this, it would be brief or only via a document or something...
And if you don't want someone dropping in going 'ugh why has no one posed in 12 hours, geez' well.... it's gotta be private.
We tend to leave it public, open to others joining but our player base is small enough to know who is busy or not, and we tend to leave "good night" oocs in there...
I think the bigger Ares games are much more flexible for folks. Like Grey Harbor!
I'll cheerfully plug Discworld here! Small and we're keen to involve everyone at this point! 
@moth said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
One: my thirteen year-old dog stopped eating her food.
Worrying! I hope she is ok...
She will eat EVERYTHING else in the known universe
This morning I heard plastic being chewed upstairs. Took me a moment and then I RAN. She has an obsession with my mouthguard, and was happily working her way through the case to get to it. This is the second one. The other was never found...
@Arkandel Those slippers, they look really chewable, wouldn't want anything to happen to them. Just saying...
We bought Harley a ball - she has been playing with it for 8 hours solidly now. I stopped throwing it for her and got some serious side eye...
@Auspice Whamagedon has started!
See, I have been on the receiving end of a creep. I didn't see it at first, as it escalated and it took someone else to say "Are you ok?" for me to pause and go, "No, actually this isn't comfortable." When I disengaged my character from his IC, he flipped his shit OOCly and staff had to step in to make him stop freaking out at me for saying no. So for me, being asked meant that I did finally see what was going on. The guy was staff there, and was also fired for doing some pretty dodgy stuff.
To be honest, YMMV. @Grayson and I have rped some stuff that does look dodgy AF and certainly I've been asked if that was ok. I just said yeah, we're friends and sorted it out ooc. I chuckled and moved on.
