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[meganbmoore]

1.  One of my coworkers has us voting all night on one of those little girl beauty pageants.  I feel like I have sold my soul as I utterly despise those things, but I have been promised free food.

2.  Remember my mentioning a coworker named Meghan Marx?   When I got my paystub today, I didn't even look, just grabbed it and went back to my desk.  When I opened it, I almost panicked when I saw 1/4 thr vacation time I have listed...then looked and saw they had given me the wrong one.  I gave it to Meghan(who was literally 5 feet away) and went to get mine.  Got a slightly suspicious look when I said I had given her her checkstub, but got my stb after forging her name.

3.  I am reading Naomi Novik's Empire of Ivory, which is just as good as other books in the series, but I am annoyed by a back cover blurb, saying "Enthralling reading-it's like Jane Austen playing Dungeons & Dragons with Eragon's Christopher Paolini."  Now, first of all, please don't compare and excellently written and characterized series with  some of the worst fantasy to ever be published.  Second of all...these books are the Napoleonic Wars with Dragon's...if you're going to compare it with something, compare it to Bernard Cornwell's Sharpe series(though, unlike Sharpe, Lawrence doesn't have a new girl every book, even if he still has the girl from a previous book) not Jane Austen...completely wrong  type of story expectations there. 

4.  Ordered from Amazon: 10 books, 1 DVD set, all in 1 order.  Shipping from Amazon: 5 boxes, all arriving the same day.

5.  How lost will I be if I watch season 1 of Stargate: Atlantis only having seen s1-4 of SG-1?

Comments

[magicnoire.livejournal.com]

"Enthralling reading-it's like Jane Austen playing Dungeons & Dragons with Eragon's Christopher Paoline."

Dude, that's the most insulting thing I've read all day.

[fairest1.livejournal.com]

See, this is why you need to choose the 'Super Saver Shipping' option when ordering from Amazon.

[chomiji]

I'm reading the Novik book too ... it isn't grabbing me really hard, but it certainly doesn't deserve that cover blurb. Gotta agree with magicnoire - that's one of the most insulting things I've read recently. Dude, even my 15-yr-old thinks Paolini is lame!!!

[ladysaotome.livejournal.com]

5. How lost will I be if I watch season 1 of Stargate: Atlantis only having seen s1-4 of SG-1?

Sadly, probably pretty lost. They don't even find the outpost that eventually leads them to Atlantis until the season 7 finale. I'd say that's when you'll be safe to start Atlantis (even though it officially starts closer to . Some majorly critical things happen around SG1 s5-7 that will probably be very confusing otherwise.