#francesweyr

I bet your fundraisers LOVE being compared to Bond. XD

It’s honestly not an inappropriate comparison. One of the things I like about working with fundraisers is that they are fundamentally incapable of allowing things to be awkward. The best fundraisers are never at a loss for conversation and never make you feel uncomfortable -- it’s a very bond-suave kind of deal. For a person who is anxious about conversation and frequently awkward, it can be very soothing to know you’ll be in a meeting/sharing a cab/having a meal with a fundraiser. 

That said, it is funny watching them switch it on and off -- some of them are naturally charismatic but for some of them it’s a very specific act, and when they’re done with Being A Fundraiser they turn it off and turn into super hilariously awkward weirdos. 

francesweyr replied to your post “So, if you have noticed that I’ve been a little quiet lately – and I...”

I sometimes wonder if becoming a manager turns you into a jerk or if biding your time to let your inner jerk flourish is a prerequisite for promotion. Take care of yourself and good luck.

I think it’s often a function of the company you work for -- if certain personality traits are valued by the company, certain people float to the top by specific virtue of being assholes. Self-promotion really does get one to the top a lot of the time and it’s generally a symptom of narcissism. One of our current senior managers is a delightful person who just works her ass off, and one of them is an incompetent asshole who is very good at kissing ass and throwing other people under the bus. 

siancrosslinisback replied to your post “It looks like Lurie Children's has several Foundation/fundraising jobs...”

Holy shit, they cut you down from a 10 man to a 2 man team and *haven't even listed the positions yet????* Yikes and also I hope you find a better place soon!

Not quite that bad -- our 10 person department is down by four, but the department is split into two teams and unfortunately my team took the hit, so we are down from six to two. So we have six of 10 employees total, which isn’t awful, but my team is missing four of six. And since my team does much of the ACTUAL WORK while the other team mostly theorizes and writes white papers, it’s a struggle.  

It wasn’t a big deal when only one person was out, but we’ve had three leave within four weeks of each other, which is a pretty big deal, especially since one was a manager and one was a senior analyst like me. We’ll hold it together for a while, especially since the manager mostly shoved all her work off onto someone else and is thus not a huge loss, but if one more person leaves we’ll be in genuine trouble. 

levynite replied to your post “You know, it’s so joyous to see new canon arrive and reignite a...”

gomens make me think of japanese gomen

Honestly I don’t care for it, but it seems to be the way fandom is trending and who am I to buck a trend :D 

lem0ncakes replied to your post “I’ve gotten both my fandom and personal email inboxes down to under 10...”

Last time I tried to do that my email blocked me because of “suspicious activity”. I do have over 10000 unread emails so I that could be why...

iamshadow21 replied to your post “I’ve gotten both my fandom and personal email inboxes down to under 10...”

You did good. I have 120 tabs open right now.

Both of these comments gave me genuine cold sweats. My very specific brand of anxiety would never allow me either of those things. I have 5-10 pinned tabs at any given time but if I end the week with unpinned tabs I have to go through them and close them down or else I would just freak the fuck out. And I can’t deal with unread emails, I have to at least read them.

crofethr replied to your post “It looks like Lurie Children's has several Foundation/fundraising jobs...”

Sam, I missed something and the mobile app is being a shit so I can't find anything relevant in backscroll- are you job hunting? Bc if so, my sister just mentioned that her (nonprofit) employer is hiring both on-site and remote positions. Let me know if I've interpreted correctly on limited info, lol, and I'll get you a link if you need it.

On the flip side of this, l have co-workers who, when asked to create a document, will write a memo in Microsoft Excel. It looks just as odd as it sounds, but they're intimidated by Word.

kink-tomato replied to your post “mysweetetc replied to your post “I appreciate the steady daily...”

Sir Mix-a-lot likes big bundts and he cannot lie

I AM SO GLAD SOMEONE MADE THE JOKE SO I DIDN’T HAVE TO

lacylu42 replied to your post “THIS WEEKEND...WE BAKE. My early birthday present has arrived! I am...”

The NYTimes ultimate chocolate chip cookie recipe, assuming you like chocolate chip cookies. You certainly could make it by hand, but it's a HUGE batch that is almost too much for my Kitchenaid.

I’m so terrible at cookies, but perhaps the Kitchenaid will be my lucky charm....

lylilunapotter replied to your post “More Food!”

Wait, you can make marshmallows without corn syrup?!! This is the best news I’ve gotten this month

I hope so! I mean, corn syrup is molecularly dissimilar but in the end it’s basically a sweet syrup -- it adds certain textures/flavors but with marshmallows I thiiiiink we can do without. 

lovedhouseswent replied to your post “Kitchenaid Food Suggestions”

This might be a regionalism, but when you say that you fuck up gnocchi to me that means that you eat it very enthusiastically, but I realize that it can also mean that you mess them up?

Well, when you give me a plate of gnocci I will also fuck it up in the sense I will devour them, but in this case I mean I will mess up the making of them :D 

francesweyr replied to your post “Kitchenaid Food Suggestions”

I have a recipe from the first kitchen aid I bought for pound cake that you beat forever and it is like silk in the mouth. The newer book wusses out with a healthier version. Let me know if you want it

I’d love to have it! Feel free to post it and tag me or email it to copperbadge at gmail.com :) 

nubpher replied to your post “THIS WEEKEND...WE BAKE. My early birthday present has arrived! I am...”

Since everyone beat me to saying marshmallows, my suggestion is maple sugar. Boil pure maple syrup in a heavy saucepan until 257°-262° F, transfer to mixer bowl and beat on medium low until you see the steam go POOF at which point the maple goop will turn sandy. Spread it on a cookie sheet to cool, sift, then whizz up the bigger lumps in a food processor. Tasty on oatmeal or yogurt, even better sprinkled onto slices of bacon with cracked pepper and before baking in oven.

Oh neat! You can buy it pretty cheaply too, but making it from cheap maple syrup would probably be fun and just as cost-efficient! 

lightshadowverisimilitude replied to your post “THIS WEEKEND...WE BAKE. My early birthday present has arrived! I am...”

Butter! To be fair, you don't NEED a stand mixer for it, but it's so much easier than standing there with the handmixer for ages. Just poor heavy cream in with the wisk attachment and let it go. Once the whey starts to separate out, strain it. I usually just squish it with a flexible spatula. Do not recommend cheesecloth. Add salt and/or pepper, herbs, honey, spices, whatever!

You know what’s also great for making butter, food processors! That’s how I’ve done it in the past. But I never thought about adding herbs and honey, that sounds delicious! 

ameliahcrowley replied to your post “Kitchenaid Food Suggestions”

If you make the Yule log, you can even make the traditional, little meringue mushrooms to decorate it!

East Side - popular with mermaids and scuba divers.

themiscyra1983 replied to your post “sir are the tvtropes usefulnotes on chigago accurate”

Sam is it not possible that Chicago's East Side is, in fact, where the swamp monsters and lake mermaids live

It’s even possible Kelp Kevin vacations there! But even then I bet the mermaids call it Down Town. :D 

francesweyr replied to your post “Random thought: do you ever try old-timey recipes? I've been watching...”

There is something about “just start a fire in this oven you built of dirt, scrape out the fire when it’s good and hot, and then stick your bread In it to bake” that is a bit intimidating. That and I’m not convinced that absolutely everything is improved by the addition of nutmeg. Fun to watch, though

Well, when nutmeg’s all you got, I guess everything looks like it could use some nutmeg. :D 

janedrewfinally replied to your post “Do you think that banana/tomato concoction would be good over plain...”

Darn it, I don't actually like either tomatoes OR bananas, and yet this is looking like a very interesting thing to try....

It really was quite good. I don’t care for tomatoes normally and I’m not much on cooked bananas because usually it strengthens the flavor too much (viz banana bread) but it sort of melded the two in a way that was surprising. 

memprime replied to your photo “Marine Biologist Dearborn Starbuck, doing important work to further...”

I wonder if they're gonna learn to flush to toilet or go to the bathroom in the toilet next...

So far they haven’t shown any interest in it beyond “Ooooh what’s it doing?” like it’s some kind of form of kitty television. But at least if they do learn how to flush it on their own, I don’t pay water bills...

ladyknighttime replied to your photo “Marine Biologist Dearborn Starbuck, doing important work to further...”

Do you call the kittens Dearborn Starbuck, or just Dearborn [insert redacted brickspace last name here]

They were saying on the tv news that they needed the seats for United employees

Yes, please! If anyone can that would be great.