Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
Seanan McGuire
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PARASITE open thread!

To (somewhat belatedly) celebrate the release of Parasite, here. Have an open thread to discuss the book.

THERE WILL BE SPOILERS.

Seriously. If anyone comments here at all, THERE WILL BE SPOILERS. So please don't read and then yell at me because you encountered spoilers. You were warned. (I will not reply to every comment; I call partial comment amnesty. But I may well join some of the discussion, or answer questions or whatnot.)

You can also start a book discussion at my website forums, with less need to be concerned that I will see everything you say! In case you wanted, you know, discussion free of authorial influence, since I always wind up getting involved in these things.

Have fun!
Tags: mira grant, pandemic time, parasite
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geekhyena

November 12 2013, 20:09:22 UTC 3 years ago

Hey, clerical lackeys are awesome! I used to be one while I was an undergrad. Clerks make the world go 'round! *fistbump* I used to clerk at a legal office, and I was good at it. Then they fired me because I wouldn't skip class to go to work, and I was the recipient of a panicked phone call after that when they realized they had no idea where stuff actually was. My response was.....short, if not eloquent. ^_^

jenfullmoon

November 12 2013, 21:08:08 UTC 3 years ago

Aw, thanks. Your old office sounds crazy, though...sheesh, people! At least at my work, they let the students leave :P

geekhyena

November 12 2013, 21:22:22 UTC 3 years ago

Yeah, my old boss was great at being a lawyer, less so at personnel management. She wanted college students because she didn't have to pay them a living wage, but she didn't want to deal with the fact that we had classes and couldn't suddenly change our schedules at her whim. I was not going to miss my upper-level statistics class and sacrifice my homework time just because she didn't want to hire on someone else. Funny thing though, if she'd've waited a month, she could have had me all summer, but she wasn't expecting me to say no when she demanded I change my work schedule. *shrugs* Then again, this was the same woman who hired on a full-time PR/marketing person, then had her only doing clerical work, then gave said person the offer of "come a few hours a week for the same pay and they aren't set hours" instead of the full-time gig she'd been promised, and was utterly shocked when said person said no. *eyeroll* I think lawyers just aren't used to hearing no from people - my mom's an ex-lawyer and hoo boy is she like that.