Smarmy emcee: "A bachelorette!...do you have a job, love?"
Me: "Yes! I'm an archivist!"
Emcee: "And what do you archive?"
Me: "Holocaust testimonies!"
And that, my friends, is how I made a burlesque show interlude awkward.
I should not put songs from musicals on my playlists because it's taking every bit of self-control to not dramatically sing along while students are in the office.
@waitmanb That sounds amazing and I dearly wish I that I didn't have a late-onset hazelnut allergy.
Side note: if you want to be really weird, chai tea with milk and vodka is surprisingly great as well.
@pullmygoalies It means doing something in a barely correct, not exactly stable way. Think of using duct tape to do repairs. I use it in my display name because my ways of handling metadata for work can be inefficient or unorthodox, but it gets done.
I had this weird thing growing up where the things I could watch were heavily policed, but I could pretty much read whatever I wanted. My parents were very contradictory in general.
Did your parents monitor/police your reading? And if so, at what age did it stop? I certainly didn’t get any input from when I started choosing/buying my own books, maybe age 10 or 11, and I can’t remember ever being told “not that” when I wanted a book from a shop or library.
@thatliBEARian I jokingly refer to my aesthetic as "haunted clergy." So: plain tees, tunics, or button downs; neat jeans, dress pants, or long skirt; combat boots/Docs; sweater, duster cardigan, or blazer; a (made by me) shawl; weird earrings and necklace. I'm an academic librarian/archivist.
My soul joyously becomes one with the universe when "Temple of Love" by the Sisters of Mercy comes on at the goth night and I can let loose.
Apparently the 7 drunk preppy dudes who wandered in from the downstairs bar and jumped in a circle while chanting feel the same way.
Things that take forever at work:
* Downloading mezzanine quality video files
* Converting hundreds of video files to another format
* Me reading through what a supervisor wrote about me in an evaluation statement, complimentary or not, because DEAR GOD NO.