No, I don't like parties. Why?
Dec. 7th, 2004 01:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
icarus"Hi! Welcome to the tutoring center! Guess what? We're having an office party today! Potluck, bring food.
What do you mean it's the week before finals and you're not in the mood?
What do you mean you loathe parties, office parties most of all?
C'mon, Icarus. Wipe that Snape-ish snarl off your face, stop swearing, bake something, and come 'be entertaining' for an hour or two!
What do you mean you'd rather clean the catbox with your teeth?"
What do you mean it's the week before finals and you're not in the mood?
What do you mean you loathe parties, office parties most of all?
C'mon, Icarus. Wipe that Snape-ish snarl off your face, stop swearing, bake something, and come 'be entertaining' for an hour or two!
What do you mean you'd rather clean the catbox with your teeth?"
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Date: 2004-12-07 01:40 pm (UTC)*am hiding out in my office because there's a party in the other room*
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Date: 2004-12-07 01:42 pm (UTC)Don't tell them I'm here. I have, um, terribly important things to do. Yes, I'm busy and important, everyone go away.
Icarus
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Date: 2004-12-07 02:02 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-12-07 02:07 pm (UTC)Icarus
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Date: 2004-12-07 02:15 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-12-07 02:36 pm (UTC)Then you can snuggle in bed with a good book and chicken soup ^^
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Date: 2004-12-07 05:27 pm (UTC)It's more or less true, and this is a damned stupid week to have this party.
Icarus
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Date: 2004-12-07 02:40 pm (UTC)The last one I went to, I drank too much and couldn't get a lift home. And the boss drank too much and was sleazy to the waitress all night. Horrible.
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Date: 2004-12-07 05:35 pm (UTC)... I have, in 17 years of employment, never been to an office party. I always, always bail at the last minute.
I really mean to go. But I make a break for freedom every time.
On another subject... whimper, whine... I don't suppose you have any Jack/Daniel recs? *puppy dog eyes* I've just burned through all over Kalimyre's fics (didn't buy the 'bully' ones, she shows her age there, but her Jack and Daniel are so intelligent), I've read Anna S., Thegrrrl, Brighid... please?
Icarus *wading through Area52*
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Date: 2004-12-07 11:46 pm (UTC)The Huntress? Gigglefest? I bet I'll love 'em.
Mallory? Cerebral? Sounds great!
I'm not big on the angst, but a title like Conduct Unbecoming has to be tried.
Thank you. *collapses at your feet in gratitude*
Icarus
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Date: 2004-12-08 12:01 am (UTC)That might make things easier. :D
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Date: 2004-12-07 11:08 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-12-07 11:49 pm (UTC)Icarus
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Date: 2004-12-07 11:10 pm (UTC)As for fic... hmmm. Okay, I liked Conduct Unbecoming (http://www.area52hkh.net/ash/hellblazer/conduct01.php) by Hellblazer, but you may not - it's really, really heavy on the angstarama (it's a guilty pleasure type fic, anyway :D).
Also - you have read Loki's Curse (http://www.area52hkh.net/asj/jonah/curse.php) by Jonah in the Whale, haven't you? Someone recced it to me and I can't remember who.
Meredith Bronwen Mallory is my personal hero - her list of fics is here (http://www.area52hkh.net/author.php?name=Meredith+Bronwen+Mallory), and they're all good, if very cerebral. I like that style of fic very much, but I know that not everyone does.
The Huntress (http://www.area52hkh.net/author.php?name=The+Huntress)' humour fics make me very, very happy, but it's hard to rec humour - other people might find her fics silly, but I got a really good giggle. I haven't been brave enough to try her Jack/Daniel/Teal'c/Jonas fic yet (argh!), but her funny stuff is well worthwhile.
I'll get back to you if I find anything else. For the most part, what I've been reading is astoundingly average.
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Date: 2004-12-07 02:49 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-12-07 04:15 pm (UTC)Icarus ;)
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Date: 2004-12-07 03:32 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-12-07 04:03 pm (UTC)I stressed. I whined.
I baked the damned cheesecake.
I got dressed.
Then I bailed at the last minute, dredging out a plausible (if not generally believed) excuse.
I will feel guilty (as per usual) my next workday, but will compensate by bringing in the cheesecake. What's really funny is that everyone will say, "You missed a great party!" And what they really mean is "Fuck you, if we had to go, you did, too."
The cheesecake will only barely make up for it.
Icarus
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Date: 2004-12-07 05:10 pm (UTC)The only office party I ever had fun at was the one where I took a female friend (which was not uncommon there, for some reason) and everyone assumed she was my girlfriend. Neither of us disabused them of the notion, and watching everyone struggle to say something innocuous was amusing. But that's it.
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Date: 2004-12-07 05:23 pm (UTC)Maybe I could my boyfriend in drag? :D
Icarus
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Date: 2004-12-08 01:07 am (UTC)Party!
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Date: 2004-12-08 11:17 am (UTC)Now WG's mother is wistfully asking if we can come down this year.
Augh. The guilt is killing me, because the answer is no, and it's not my fault but WG's. Yet she had a cancer scare only months ago so it's just... gah.
*sings* "Happy Holidays.... happy holidays... where the merry bells keep ringing, may your every wish comes truuuuuuue...."
On the other hand, I get 17 (unpaid) days off for Christmas. Yeah! All I have to do is live that long.
Icarus
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Date: 2004-12-08 03:56 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-12-08 11:18 am (UTC)More? *Icarus drips crumbs*
Icarus
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Date: 2004-12-08 08:38 pm (UTC)