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[greatwhitenorthchick]

Originally posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy
We're seeing a bunch of Afghan restaurants in the area now - a pretty interesting mix of Indian and Middle Eastern with the occassional Russian influence.

I love Indian.

I am very fond of Afghan food. There's a great one in my neighborhood. Trouble is the A/C kept breaking down in the summer so now I just get delivery from it.

[patentparanyc]

Originally posted by robustpuppy
I remember from my LR&W class that the ADEA kicks in at 40. So if you do the minimum not to get fired for just a few more years , you are totally fucking golden! Isn't it great?! Just as it may become less reliable to slide by on one's looks, the law steps up to help.

according to TM I Have zero looks to "slide by on" or 2.5 looks. meh.

[Secret_Agent_Man]

Originally posted by robustpuppy
I know that it's silly to get irritated by the misleading nature of newspaper headlines, but given that they are usually misleading in an inflammatory sense, I am surprised by the euphemistic tone of the headline and the opening sentence of the story below.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...101900533.html

I don't expect the article to display obvious disgust, but the way this article describes what happened, you'd think the priest was just some old guy reminiscing about a ski trip with his college girlfriend.

I thought that too, and the Priest strikes me as someone who'd built up a lot of excuses in his selective memory over the past 40 years.

S_A_M

[patentparanyc]

Originally posted by robustpuppy
I have worked with young, old, male, female, black, white, and people of all ethnic and religious backgrounds, and I have found that doing the minimum not to get fired appears in every demographic and at every level of responsibility.

But have fun with this schtick when you are an old bag yourself. Although I would guess that you will be complaining about how lazy the younger women are, always talking about how busy they are when all they do is take long lunches to go shopping and post on internet chat boards all day and have no respect for their elders who've been doing this for 20 years.

Fine. Take age off the table. It's about work ethic and this chick's work ethic sounds like it SUCKS.

[Pretty Little Flower]

Originally posted by bold_n_brazen
My ex was scuba diving a couple of weeks ago. Because he did not have a dive buddy with him, he was diving with the divemaster. The divemaster, having decided it would be fun to feed a large grouper that was known to live at that location, carried a bag of chum attached to his wrist. At some point, a free-swimming moray eel approached, looking for a snack, and when the divemaster did not feed the moray fast enough to suit the moray, the moray attacked. "Like a pit bull," says my ex.

It's not just the stingrays, man. The whole damned ocean is pissed off.

You're reading too much into this. I have been known to get violently worked up over a bag of chum, but I was never actually pissed off.

[Replaced_Texan]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall

And how exactly was he punished? He was made to comply with the rule (that he tried to ignore), like everyone else. Compliance is not punishment. If he had made two collections, tried to submit both and they told him he could only submit one, would that be a punishment too? He tried to submit a collection that did not comply with the rules. He had his receipts. He knew he was over. He got caught and they let him go.

And the fact that the collection that hit the runway was under budget is irrelevant, because it's the submission of the collection that had an advantage over the other collections that is the issue.

TM

Again, I don't know how the rules were written and neither do you. None of the other contestants objected at all to the way the over budget issue was handled, and none of them looked particularly surprised about it. It could say "you are not allowed to present a collection budgeted over $8,000" (as I believe they were written, and as how the show played it out) instead of "you are not allowed to submit a collection budgeted over $8,000. Submission of the collection will occur one day before the presentation of the collection." (as you advocate).

The judges did not have an opportunity to take a look at the over-budget collection, so the extra that Jeffery had brought with him was thoroughly irrelevant to the outcome, except to the extent it counted against him when they were told about it.

[Pretty Little Flower]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
That idiot started a full-on stingray-man war. They were minding their own business, swimming around not killing us and now they're all pissed off. We're doomed.

TM

It is more complicated than just a stingray vs. man thing. More and more I have been tempted to attack annoying assholes who invade my space by stabbing them in the heart with my poison penis. Few of these assholes have been stingrays.

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally posted by patentparanyc
according to TM I Have zero looks to "slide by on" or 2.5 looks. meh.

She wasn't talking to you.

TM

[Pretty Little Flower]

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
Again, I don't know how the rules were written and neither do you.

I don't know if Thurgreed knows how the rules were written and neither do you.

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick
Oh come on. There are a million things to fight with patentpara about, but criticizing her job shouldn't be one of them. I'm just saying. Especially when most of us are just drones.

It's not her job, it's the droning on and on about it.

I want to hear about Indian food. South Indian. North Indian. Korma sauces. Cashew/mint spread (there is a place in Boston that is have French/half Indian and makes an incredible cashew/mint spread for your Naan. Ummmm.

I have enough boring work of my own.

[bold_n_brazen]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
She wasn't talking to you.

TM

You seem to have lost sight of how things work in patentpara-land.

[patentparanyc]

Originally posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy
It's not her job, it's the droning on and on about it.

I want to hear about Indian food. South Indian. North Indian. Korma sauces. Cashew/mint spread (there is a place in Boston that is have French/half Indian and makes an incredible cashew/mint spread for your Naan. Ummmm.

I have enough boring work of my own.

Fine. describe some good Indian food. I'm a baby and only seem to eat Chicken Tikka Masala and that's lame. So something that isn't so hot that it blows my head off would be a nice suggestion.

[bold_n_brazen]

Originally posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy
It's not her job, it's the droning on and on about it.

I want to hear about Indian food. South Indian. North Indian. Korma sauces. Cashew/mint spread (there is a place in Boston that is have French/half Indian and makes an incredible cashew/mint spread for your Naan. Ummmm.

I have enough boring work of my own.

I will be in Boston the weekend of November 10. I am staying near Copley. I haven't lived there in over 6 years, so I'll gladly take restaurant recs.

Oh, and you Boston types.... let me know if you want to have a drink.

[Replaced_Texan]

Originally posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy
It's not her job, it's the droning on and on about it.

I want to hear about Indian food. South Indian. North Indian. Korma sauces. Cashew/mint spread (there is a place in Boston that is have French/half Indian and makes an incredible cashew/mint spread for your Naan. Ummmm.

I have enough boring work of my own.

Robb Walsh of the Houston Press just reviewed Indika. Anita Jaisinghani just opened a new location, and he went to check it out. It was a really good review, but my favorite part was this:

At the new location, Indika has found a suitable showcase for its world-class Indian food. And it has added the upscale cocktails and approachable lunch items that it needed to attract a wider audience. Combine the hip new menu with a Montrose-area address, and you have the makings of greatness.

But as brilliant as she is, Anita Jaisinghani owes part of the credit for her success to the palates of Houstonians. Floyd Cardoz at Tabla in New York will never be able to make his food as spicy as it should be, because New Yorkers are wimps when it comes to chiles. And I imagine innovative Indian restaurants in Tennessee and California face the same restraints.

What makes Jaisinghani's food great is that it's not only among the most creative takes on Indian cuisine in the country, it's also muy picante when it's supposed to be. Thanks to the "bring it on" palates of jalapeño-happy Houstonians, Indika's fabulous, fiery Indian food has found the audience it deserves.

[nononono]

Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick
I am very fond of Afghan food. There's a great one in my neighborhood. Trouble is the A/C kept breaking down in the summer so now I just get delivery from it.

Mmmm, Afghan food is so yummy.

On the paralegal, how come no one's acknowledging the OP's role in this mess? Sure, maybe the paralegal sucked, but by handling it that way it sounds, it was made worse. I like the TM approach - give her the work; if it's not right, give it back until it is correct. This is frustrating, and you'll have to set artificial deadlines. But is she at least responsive? I have a para who is minimally so, in part due to my own failure to establish the proper dynamic. I am working to remedy this, but it's a pain in the ass. Problem is, she generally does it right, so I can't say too much.

Now, my secretary is another story. Thank fucking God I'm getting a new one soon. The secretary filling in for mine was practically in tears the other day over the disaster that is my admin's workspace and the deplorable state of my contacts database and other important thing. Plus, she's a fucking snoop. Whew, sorry, I needed that.