The Past Five Days of Our Professional Life, As Demonstrated By These Adorable Kitties
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCB7RqGS684
We also would have accepted being smothered under a ton of fluffy pillows.
My allergies!! My ALLERGIES!!!
Personally, this is my go-to video for that metaphor.
@flippin eck: Ah yes, the dot.com Super Bowl. One of my favorite commercials ever.
@ManchuCandidate: Also, that funny smell on your new Ikea couch? Cat pee.
@flippin eck: Excellent. I don’t remember that one — I must have been out playing touch football and getting hurt.
Three serial all-nighters! Three!
And yet, we hit our 8 a.m. press deadline. Because I am a god.
@nojo: Is this Duck-related?
@Dodgerblue: I’m not sure I’m at liberty to say that it’s for a journalism school of my intimate acquaintance.
@nojo: What do they teach in journalism school these days?
@Dodgerblue: Same crap they always taught. Me, I learned what I really needed to know at the student newspaper. Nothing beats hearing from an angry source you misquoted.
@Dodgerblue: More properly: What you learn at a student newspaper is the same thing you learn at a graduate philosophy seminar — severe discipline.
Especially if the student newspaper is a daily. It goes to press at 3 a.m. whether you like it or not.
@nojo: I know about deadlines. “Good morning, your Honor.”
@Dodgerblue: Precisely.
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