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#76 2009-01-22 09:22:09

Em
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Re: QM - The Genisis X is leaving Mint

Enjoy the rest of your day, Sahi.


Don't let appearances fool you, there's always only one reality. 1Q84, Haruki Murakami.

 

#77 2009-01-22 13:17:53

Em
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Re: QM - The Genisis X is leaving Mint

For some stupid reason, people working a project which I do not work on, put my name as contact name on correspondence.

I demand a pay raise!


Don't let appearances fool you, there's always only one reality. 1Q84, Haruki Murakami.

 

#78 2009-01-22 15:32:22

Em
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Re: QM - The Genisis X is leaving Mint

Time to go home. *verdants*


Don't let appearances fool you, there's always only one reality. 1Q84, Haruki Murakami.

 

#79 2009-01-23 00:39:47

Sahi
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Re: QM - The Genisis X is leaving Mint

Maen Mint! Disappearance day again.


"I'm a much nicer person online" - Aan'Allein

First member of the Shadowmarch Council of Sages, Official Quiller's Mint Historian
You may call me the Porcupine Lady, or if you are feeling generous the Erinaceous One.

 

#80 2009-01-23 05:47:26

Em
Mantis
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Posts: 42283

Re: QM - The Genisis X is leaving Mint

*waves at the Mint*

On the way to work.


Don't let appearances fool you, there's always only one reality. 1Q84, Haruki Murakami.

 

#81 2009-01-23 05:50:56

Magpie
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From: the town of thistly flowerbeds
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Re: QM - The Genisis X is leaving Mint

Weekend!

We have mixed up cuttings of two different pelargonium cutlivars again. Which is very, very bad. Wasn't my fault, though, and I refuse to tell the sort-of boss - I'll leave that to the journeyman who is responsible (as he didn't inform us that he'd started taking cuttings of the new cultivar, so we assumed it was all the same).


I think we've just proven that our greatest power is silliness!
- cyan

babbling about books and plants
my crazy customers

 

#82 2009-01-23 06:37:27

Em
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Re: QM - The Genisis X is leaving Mint

*waves at Magpie*


Don't let appearances fool you, there's always only one reality. 1Q84, Haruki Murakami.

 

#83 2009-01-23 06:46:35

Magpie
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Re: QM - The Genisis X is leaving Mint

*waves back*


I think we've just proven that our greatest power is silliness!
- cyan

babbling about books and plants
my crazy customers

 

#84 2009-01-23 06:49:11

Em
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Posts: 42283

Re: QM - The Genisis X is leaving Mint

So, do you have to wait until the plants grow to find out which is which?


Don't let appearances fool you, there's always only one reality. 1Q84, Haruki Murakami.

 

#85 2009-01-23 07:15:19

Magpie
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Re: QM - The Genisis X is leaving Mint

Probably - until they're flowering. And by that time, they'll be even more mixed up (as they'll be repotted and moved around several times).  And we're supposed to make cuttings from them again, which will get mixed up still worse. Gah. *hides face in hands* Even if it's not my fault, it really bothers me.

Usually, I just give such mixed-up plants the new cultivar name, "Town Gardens Special Mix", but this is too much to joke about it.


I think we've just proven that our greatest power is silliness!
- cyan

babbling about books and plants
my crazy customers

 

#86 2009-01-23 07:47:08

Em
Mantis
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Re: QM - The Genisis X is leaving Mint

Perhaps "Geranium Surprise"?


Don't let appearances fool you, there's always only one reality. 1Q84, Haruki Murakami.

 

#87 2009-01-23 07:53:15

Magpie
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Re: QM - The Genisis X is leaving Mint

*grins weakly*

I also suggested naming it after N.'s little daughter - N. was an apprentice at the Town Gardens until the year before last, and she visited us with her baby yesterday (and we believe that we were so busy admiring little S. that the journeyman forgot to mention he'd started on the new cultivar.


I think we've just proven that our greatest power is silliness!
- cyan

babbling about books and plants
my crazy customers

 

#88 2009-01-23 08:55:02

Sahi
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Posts: 37884
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Re: QM - The Genisis X is leaving Mint

Bosses have gone home again.

Weekend!

And I found out that my laptop problem is a bad harddisk. So I'll get a new one on monday. AND my boss is ordering me a new book (work-related).


"I'm a much nicer person online" - Aan'Allein

First member of the Shadowmarch Council of Sages, Official Quiller's Mint Historian
You may call me the Porcupine Lady, or if you are feeling generous the Erinaceous One.

 

#89 2009-01-23 08:59:11

Magpie
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Re: QM - The Genisis X is leaving Mint

*waves*
I'm copying stupid quotes from school (which I wrote down on a piece of paper in my pencilcase) into my book of funny-silly quotes. Such lovely lines as "And how do I get the reindeer to puke?"


I think we've just proven that our greatest power is silliness!
- cyan

babbling about books and plants
my crazy customers

 

#90 2009-01-23 09:06:03

Magpie
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Registered: 2006-03-27
Posts: 19924
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Re: QM - The Genisis X is leaving Mint

OK, off to buy apples, and possibly some more flowers - I'm so sick of this muddy, drizzly grey world outside my window!


I think we've just proven that our greatest power is silliness!
- cyan

babbling about books and plants
my crazy customers

 

#91 2009-01-23 09:13:37

Em
Mantis
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Posts: 42283

Re: QM - The Genisis X is leaving Mint

Yeah for solving computer probs! And, yes, Magpie, colorful flowers are a perfect foil against the gray outside your window.


Don't let appearances fool you, there's always only one reality. 1Q84, Haruki Murakami.

 

#92 2009-01-23 10:27:45

Magpie
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Re: QM - The Genisis X is leaving Mint

Wandering around the garden store is both nice and painful - nice because it's bright and green and colourful, and painful because I can't buy much... but the day will come when I have my own garden, I can't ever give up believing that.


I think we've just proven that our greatest power is silliness!
- cyan

babbling about books and plants
my crazy customers

 

#93 2009-01-23 12:12:45

Em
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Re: QM - The Genisis X is leaving Mint

I totally understand, Magpie. *hugs* One day, you'll have a garden.

FYI: My husband keeps playing your numbers! Hey, you never know.


Don't let appearances fool you, there's always only one reality. 1Q84, Haruki Murakami.

 

#94 2009-01-23 12:31:52

Magpie
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Posts: 19924
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Re: QM - The Genisis X is leaving Mint

*giggles*

I think I should do something useful now... but what? Too tired to write, too lazy to start studying, my room is reasonably clean...


I think we've just proven that our greatest power is silliness!
- cyan

babbling about books and plants
my crazy customers

 

#95 2009-01-23 12:45:38

Em
Mantis
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Posts: 42283

Re: QM - The Genisis X is leaving Mint

And, on a totally selfish note ...

My other paralegal went home (Ohio) to deal with a family emergency. She'll be gone for a week? a month? who knows?

Who's going to do all this work?!?! *wailing and hiding under the desk*


Don't let appearances fool you, there's always only one reality. 1Q84, Haruki Murakami.

 

#96 2009-01-23 13:09:11

Magpie
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Posts: 19924
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Re: QM - The Genisis X is leaving Mint

I really don't feel like doing anything.

Bath, Book, and Bed then.


I think we've just proven that our greatest power is silliness!
- cyan

babbling about books and plants
my crazy customers

 

#97 2009-01-23 15:04:22

Em
Mantis
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Registered: 2004-12-28
Posts: 42283

Re: QM - The Genisis X is leaving Mint

Magpie wrote:

I really don't feel like doing anything.

Bath, Book, and Bed then.

Book, Bell, Candle ....


Don't let appearances fool you, there's always only one reality. 1Q84, Haruki Murakami.

 

#98 2009-01-24 03:20:48

sisterdew
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Posts: 5868

Re: QM - The Genisis X is leaving Mint

g'maen!

saturday at work*sips coffee*


daisy-headed, one-eyed, one-horned, flying purple people eater!

 

#99 2009-01-24 03:32:49

Magpie
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Registered: 2006-03-27
Posts: 19924
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Re: QM - The Genisis X is leaving Mint

*waves*

I'll leave in a bit to go to the cinema with a friend (to finally see Inkheart) and pick up my new glasses. I think I'll go by bike, it's sunny and, I think, relatively warm.


I think we've just proven that our greatest power is silliness!
- cyan

babbling about books and plants
my crazy customers

 

#100 2009-01-24 06:31:15

Em
Mantis
From: somewhere left of reality
Registered: 2004-12-28
Posts: 42283

Re: QM - The Genisis X is leaving Mint

*waves at Magpie and Sisterdew*

I'm waiting for my morning coffee to arrive.


Don't let appearances fool you, there's always only one reality. 1Q84, Haruki Murakami.

 

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