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I really wish there were more podfics out there. I do a lot of paperwork at work that doesn't really require much thought, so listen to them while working. I've downloaded pretty much everything from

sgapodfic and listened to it at least twice. Which is why, I'm currently at work, listening to the most recently posted fic, which is John/Elizabeth.

Man, nothing against the author (really really, this is all me) but I'm having a lot of trouble listening to it. I just... can't take John/Elizabeth seriously. In fact I have trouble taking John/Anyone-but-Rodney seriously. I think I've been reading McShep too long to be able to read anything else. I only started reading McShep because there was so much of it (and so many of the writers were *good*), I actually started out reading McBeck, but I think I finally have to admit to myself that I am a McShep fan.

Also, after all this time, it's kind of hard to go back to het. I've been reading slash for... 4 years now.

God I'm bored at work right now. There's *nothing* to do! I think I'm going to shuffle some papers and look busy.

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Yeah, when Jeannie mentioned marriage I was like Huh? They may have had their first date a year ago, but if they've had more than a handful of dates since then I'd be really surprised. Also, it seems a little insulting to both Katie and Rodney for Jeannie to suggest the he should marry Katie, because he's not going to get anyone better.

And yeah, it weird that more people aren't talking about it. Normally slashers are pretty protective of their characters, how much is Cheya brought up? But maybe it's because they just can't take the couple seriously...

Also, if you don't mind me asking, what kind of work do you do?
No, I don't mind, I'm sure I've mentioned it here more than once, but that was probably before you were here.
I work at a company that sells scientific supplies and instrumentation. Actually, if you've ever been in a lab, certainly anywhere in North America and Europe, but really all over the world, then chances are they've carried something from my company. I work at the Canadian head office for the distributions side of things. I started off in Customer Service (all orders go through us), but recently made a switch to the Contracts Department. I don't actually have my own accounts, I mostly do grunt work for the coordinators (When I started at Fisher, I would just work summers as a student, but now that I'm no longer in school, I'm working there full time, but they haven't really moved me beyond "Summer Student" status). So I spend a lot of time doing up spreadsheets, making things look pretty, and a *lot* of time cross-referencing things. A lot of times when customers are shopping around, they'll send in lists of things that they buy that we might sell, but they'll all be part numbers from a competitor, so it's my job to find an equivalent that we sell. I like it, and I'm learning *tons*, although sometimes it's kind of funny, the other day I went on a hunt for albino corn seeds....

And yeah, it weird that more people aren't talking about it.
I guess the John storyline really overshadowed Rodney's potential for wedded bliss, and with good reason. JF really knocked that one out of the park.

Your job sounds cool! I've worked on and off in a hospital for a couple of years on the clerical side of things and we always get catalogs for some of the strangest things. The practice trauma dummies were probably my favorite, because they sell them with super size bags of trauma: 50 free lacerations and 12 free bullets with an upgrade to Timmy Trauma! It's ridiculous and morbid, but totally entertaining. Probably not as cool as albino corn seeds, though. I never even know those existed.

JF really knocked that one out of the park.
True.

Your job sounds cool!
It is, when there's work to do. We seem to go through insanely busy times (OMG there was this one time a potential customer sent in a list of 6500 items to be cross referenced and we only had a week to do it. Our guidelines state that a list of 100 items or more should take about a week, and needs approval from the big bosses. I wanted to kill someone over the pipet tips), and times when it's really slow. The slow bumps can be pretty boring. Especially since my "spare time" project is to go through the thousands of contracts we have, read the terms and conditions and input specific agreements into the system (exchange rate mostly). That's fine for a couple hours, but a couple days has me wanting to kill myself.

It's ridiculous and morbid, but totally entertaining.
Oh, you want to talk about morbid? Try flipping through a Thermo Shandon catalogue. Among other things, they sell mortuary supplies. I remember being really depressed one day to realize that we sold a morgue set up that could house 500 bodies. And looking at the various saws and what not? :S

Probably not as cool as albino corn seeds, though. I never even know those existed.
Yeah, that was a funny day. I had gotten a call from our warehouse earlier, saying that they had these buckets of worms, and can I please find out what they're supposed to do with them? They'd had them sitting there for about a month now. I looked them up (because I was really bothered by the idea of buckets of worms sitting around for months) and at least it turned out that they were preserved worms for high school dissections. It turned out that the worms were too small, so I had to call the various customers and see if they'd accept the shorter worms. I was leaving this one customer a message "You had order cat# XXXX which is supposed to be 10", but it turns out that the ones we got are only 8". Will that be big enough for you?" And I look up, and see Phil staring at me with this *huge* grin on his face, and choked while leaving my contact info. He laughed at me and said he didn't want to know, which had be yelling Worms! It was worms! Oh, I miss Phil.

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