- CLIENT: We’d like to go ahead and book you to handle this year’s edition but, of course, we’re in the middle of a tough recession. So we’ll only be able to offer you about 50% of what we paid last year.
- ME: I gave you a heavily discounted price last year as an introductory deal. I said at the time it was a one-off and included a quote at the full price to illustrate.
- CLIENT: Yeah… Anyway, we’d like you to get to work immediately, since the deadline is
- this time next week.
- ME: You had a three-month lead last time.
- CLIENT: Uh-huh… Moving forward, we want you to treat this as urgent. Oh, and we’ll be paying you when the project comes into profit, of course.
- ME: So, you want me to do three months graft in a week, on the promise that when or if you make money out of my work you’ll pay me less than half what my time is worth.
- CLIENT: To be honest, we thought you’d be more grateful.
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Now that the post is written, I must answer an important question: Job application or Veronica Mars?
I just watched Veronica Mars for the first time evar yesterday. It is so, so good. BUT, I need a new job. Choices choices.
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because you know, as far as pocky goes, i prefer the variety that is specially formulated for my penisness.
is this a marketing thing (like luna bars and the dictionary of the khazars) or just another case of engrish?
It’s darker chocolate than regular Pocky. I also prefer this to sissypants regular Pocky, but it has nothing to do with my penis since I don’t have one.
Wrong Holiday treat, right?
Yup, It’ll be about 2 months before you can buy these.
I have one, waiting in my desk at work for a particularly bad day. It’s probably all melted and gross, but I don’t care.
The verdict on Kerrygold
It’s good butter. Very delicious. Omnomnom. However, its quality is not that far removed from the butter I always buy back home.
So though I rave about it, because butter here is weird and flaky and it smells odd*, I’m also sad for America. Cause you have all these cows, and apparently no idea how to handle their milk.
*I can now finally understand how a company could get away with naming their margarine “I can’t believe it’s not butter.” If you don’t know what actual butter is like, then perhaps margarine would be quite similar.
In addition to the water content comment, I have to say (as someone who also tried her Trader Joe’s Kerrygold this morning), I don’t think it transports that well? I don’t know. I remember my first bite of Kerrygold in the UK being a transcendental experience. This was tasty, but not much tastier than the butter we usually use (from Costco…think it’s their Kirkland brand). The color was also murkier, I guess from softening and re-hardening during transport? Again, no idea, but I also failed to have a Kerrygold orgasm this morning.
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