muahahaha

just to put it out there:

i am proud to work at a company that hires zombie staff:

i think we should win the award for the finest of equal opportunity employers.

Miss Austen Regrets is gorgeous gorgeous gorgeous gorgeous.

and exactly what i thought was how it should be done.

Those of you that

1. love the Keira Knightly version of Pride and Prejudice (most likely because that was the only version you saw)

2. liked Becoming Jane (which i abhored from day one)

are seriously lacking in any sort of good fortune in life.

-_-

what a bummer.

surreal

From Cynical-C, in turn taken from a livejournal group of WOWers (on being a parent and MMORPGer), :

When I finally got fed up with the server my main was on (the only decent person there was my friend as far as I could find) I moved over to Stonemaul permanently. I ditched my half-assed attempt at an undead mage, rolled up my druid and was good to go. Well, now months later I’m finally level 60 and my husband and I are both in the same guild. I’ll be starting my raids with them this week actually.

The problem? We have two small children who need to eat dinner and raids start at 5pm. Ack! How are we going to make dinner?! There are no problems with the kids running around playing and such while we raid. They’re already used to that, they play in the computer room and we can get them things that they need (you know, cups of juice, snacks, what have you) when we have breaks. Before it was easy because if I was running an instance and in the middle of combat my husband might be in a a space between pulls where he could safely go afk for 30 seconds you know. But now we’ll be on the same schedule essentially. We both play support classes too (he’s a holy priest, I’m a resto druid) so the guild ideally would want us to both be in a forty man raid. It’s not like we can easily switch off any raid nights other than say, ZG and AQ20 runs.

It’s more of a logistics problem than a real stressor. It’s just that it hadn’t really occured to me when I joined his guild that eventually we’d both be raiding on the same nights and thus on the same schedule game-wise. For tonight, since dinner is already thawed out, I’m just planning on eating with the kids at 4pm (about two hours earlier than our normal dinnertime) and letting them snack when they get hungry later one. We’ll make a plate for my husband (who doesn’t usually get home from work until just about invite time) to heat up and that will take care of tonight. But what about the rest of the week? The rest of the time I’m raiding.

I'm not saying that the couple neglects their kids, on the contrary I think the kids are more or less fine, and the adults are doing what they can to work around their schedule. It's the fact that their schedule is purely WOW driven that gives me pause. Like a huuuge, pregnant one.

I was initially a bit worried that the angry owner will track me down and beat me up, but then I figured she'll be too busy on WOW :P

>:o

this newfangled layout is pretty confusing. what do they think i am, 21?

geez. kids these days never respect their elders...-_-