Yes, Edward Furlong looking scruffy is exactly it!

What does she EAT?

I don't think Donna Tartt's novels will translate well to screen. Too much relies on characterization and subtle cues in exposition. The Goldfinch is too sprawling and rambling. They would have to basically cut out all the story and just do the last quarter of the novel as a dumb action movie.

Make sure that education credit actually works. That's one of the perks advertised by my agency, but it's not funded. I am also going back to school to finish my degree and while my supervisor is cool about me adjusting my schedule as needed or taking time off for an exam or whatever, the tuition compensation that is…

ha. Most state and federal government jobs are like this. Go online to whatever state you live in and fill out the state application. Be very thorough. Apply for jobs that you meet qualifications for. Don't lie. They will find out. Word of warning - while the job security is good, the pay is low as fuck, the job…

Yeah, for me the low quality of life at the office and low pay is starting to trump the benefits and time off. In five years, we have only had a 2% raise. 2%! They keep adding more and more and more duties to our jobs but don't increase our pay. One of our state legislators compared state workers to welfare recipients…

I did this intentionally because this chick wouldn't stop fucking spraying goddamned perfume in her office over and over again even though she had been asked repeatedly by coworkers and supervisors to stop. Since her cube was right on the other side of mine, I brought in a nice stinky jar of kimchi and left it open on…

I think my job would call you out on watching Netflix at work. I'm on Facebook all the time, though, I'm just not an idiot and I silence my computer so no one hears the pings. I don't feel bad about it, either. When I'm finishing work for slackers every fucking month and my numbers are consistently in the top 5 people…

I just want my coworkers to stop talking over the phone to each other. We're not in offices. It's all cubes. Drives me batty. I DO NOT feel bad about getting on Facebook and Jez because of it. Re: FB pinging: do these idiots not know how to mute their computers or what? I mean, what the fuck?

It's really, really not a bad thing at all.

Lots of contractors with my state, too. The only reason my job is a state employee job and no a contract job paying out at $8/hr is because they tried to do that already and got sued by the Feds in response.

Mind blowing is right. We had someone who quit coming to work for over a month. No call, no text, nothing. No one knew what had happened to her. She didn't get fired. They let her just waltz back in to work like nothing had ever happened.

Do you work for state government? I do, and we have some people like this. It's really infuriating. I'm convinced that in order to get fired you have to moon the governor and tell the commissioner to fuck off.

Yeah, also the cooking is so much more fun. When we moved in together it was so fun cooking for him because it was the first time I got to cook for someone who wasn't all, "I don't eat onions," or "don't put that sauce on mine" or "please don't use salt" (!) whatever. We are always talking about how happy we are to…

How do these people no die of scurvy?

Yeah, I can't stand traveling with picky eaters. Or hanging out with them on a regular basis, really. I love my sis-in-law but she is SO picky and it drives me nuts. No ethnic food, no sea food, no "weird" (read: higher end) food. It's so frustrating. When I was dating I had a no picky eater policy and put it on my…

"Carbotarian" haha! I once knew this girl who called herself a vegan yet ate nothing but french fries, fried tofu, peanut sauce, and ketchup. I believe for breakfast she ate granola bars. She was the single most unhealthy person I have ever met. Just constantly sick all the time.

I like the comments as well. It's pretty easy to skim over the idiots and there can be lots of helpful hints from the people who actually know what they are doing.

What, no peyote?

Yeah, the fucking yuppies have caught on now that it's fairly high quality and not considered low-class anymore. Just wait, next thing you know HGTV will be telling us about how we should all have climate controlled weed refrigerators in our kitchens and selling $100 granite weed butter keepers.