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Author Topic: WCDT 2942-2946 (20-24 April 2015)  (Read 57555 times)

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Re: WCDT 2942-2946 (20-24 April 2015)
« Reply #150 on: 21 Apr 2015, 20:04 »

Honestly, I don't think Tai is high here.

She's got the high eyes.

It's also 4/...21.
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Re: WCDT 2942-2946 (20-24 April 2015)
« Reply #151 on: 21 Apr 2015, 20:09 »


She's got the high eyes.

It's also 4/...21.

Do not underestimate the effect 4/20 can have on the willing portion of the populace. I've only been capable of participating in the one, 2 years ago, but I promise you, the next day I was level as a ship, looking high as a kite. Appearance carries over, even when the high does not
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Re: WCDT 2942-2946 (20-24 April 2015)
« Reply #152 on: 21 Apr 2015, 20:17 »

If someone smokes weed occasionally, fine, but personally I generally have a poor view of people who seem to light up as much as she does.

Omega, this upsets me. Though I haven't had the pleasure even once since I've been a part of these forums, if I had my druthers, I'd be on the next plane more often than not, and I'm sad to see you looking down on such behavior.

It's not how often Tai tokes up, it's how little she considers the consequences. For fuck's sake, chick, you're at fucking WORK.
 BLAZE IN YOUR OWN GODDAMN TIME OKAY?

It been my personal experience that (most) people who spend a large amount of time high aren't very productive - and usually annoy me. There are exceptions, of course, but that's mostly what I've seen. If that makes you dislike me, so be it.

On the latter part, the frequency of her toking up at work can be an indication of  a larger disregard for boundaries than previously thought. Of course, we already knew she had a major problem with those, so....


She's got the high eyes.

It's also 4/...21.

Do not underestimate the effect 4/20 can have on the willing portion of the populace. I've only been capable of participating in the one, 2 years ago, but I promise you, the next day I was level as a ship, looking high as a kite. Appearance carries over, even when the high does not
I think her appearance here goes far beyond that. Comp!etly bloodshot eyes and major bags under the eyes are a pretty big tell.

And in a visual medium, if and artist wants to portray 'high as  kite' without saying as such, this is a perfect example of how to do so. Why bother with even making her look like that, if it's not intended to come across as being high? It'd be like drawing lots of smoke, but there being nothing on fire.
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Re: WCDT 2942-2946 (20-24 April 2015)
« Reply #153 on: 21 Apr 2015, 20:27 »

I suspect if Claire wants a "proper" evaluation, she'll have to write it up herself. Then have Tai sign it. (Which she'll be happy to do.)

I've never seen any indication that Tai takes her position at all seriously. Marten, Claire, Emily, Momo et al have had a free hand to do whatever they like, which fortunately includes keeping the place going. As deadwood goes, Tai is fairly benign.
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Re: WCDT 2942-2946 (20-24 April 2015)
« Reply #154 on: 21 Apr 2015, 20:28 »

Omega, it doesn't upset me. People are idiots, even when they aren't high. High people just let their idiocy be more known. As to my own experience, slightly-high me makes normal me look like a lazy bum. So much shit gets done if I'm in that golden space between barely-high and stoned-off-my-ass.

Bags under-the-eyes indicate lack of sleep, which can otherwise be suggested by bloodshot eyes. If we didn't know Tai's history of marijuana usage, all of this would indicate nothing. We saw Marten with bags beneath his eyes dueing the Faye-pocalypse, yet no one suggested he was high.
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Re: WCDT 2942-2946 (20-24 April 2015)
« Reply #155 on: 21 Apr 2015, 20:29 »

But.. she offered to give Claire a gold star? What more can you ask?

Honestly, I don't think Tai is high here. She just knows how (over) seriously Claire takes working at the library and likes to poke fun at it. She's probably had this joke primed and ready to go for a while now, with a proper evaluation ready to be sent.

I'm not sure if she's high or not either.  She's always disinterested in her work, but Jeph did draw her eyes somewhat redder than Claire's.  Maybe that's a visual clue.
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Re: WCDT 2942-2946 (20-24 April 2015)
« Reply #156 on: 21 Apr 2015, 20:38 »

Omega, it doesn't upset me. People are idiots, even when they aren't high. High people just let their idiocy be more known. As to my own experience, slightly-high me makes normal me look like a lazy bum. So much shit gets done if I'm in that golden space between barely-high and stoned-off-my-ass.

Bags under-the-eyes indicate lack of sleep, which can otherwise be suggested by bloodshot eyes. If we didn't know Tai's history of marijuana usage, all of this would indicate nothing. We saw Marten with bags beneath his eyes dueing the Faye-pocalypse, yet no one suggested he was high.
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Re: WCDT 2942-2946 (20-24 April 2015)
« Reply #157 on: 21 Apr 2015, 20:43 »

I've often wondered what Tai has on the Library Administration that makes it possible for her to maintain her position there.

I envisage some minor drama here from Claire.
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Re: WCDT 2942-2946 (20-24 April 2015)
« Reply #158 on: 21 Apr 2015, 20:44 »

I'm a little torn.  I love day old KFC.  I almost never have KFC because it's so darned expensive, but there you go.

On the other hand, Vern's Mama Mia pizza is also fantastic day old.

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The amount of toppings on those pizzas is ridiculously excessive.  Or excessively ridiculous.

And I would pay any price for one with a gluten-free crust.
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Re: WCDT 2942-2946 (20-24 April 2015)
« Reply #159 on: 21 Apr 2015, 20:48 »

Tai's high as a kite.

Wondering if this is the next bit of drama coming up. Will Dora react to Tai's chemical dependency as strongly as she did to Faye's? Tai's not a COD employee, so her being a stoner doesn't threaten Dora's livelihood. But arguably, as Dora's SO, Tai's overuse of weed (and if she's showing up to work high, it's overuse) could have an even more profound impact on Dora.
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Re: WCDT 2942-2946 (20-24 April 2015)
« Reply #160 on: 21 Apr 2015, 20:57 »

Meh, forget Dora.  This is part of Claire's arc.  She's been serious about her internship from day one, and Tai just showed how little it mattered to her.  Sure, she may have been joking, but signs point to her being high as balls.  Pair that with her previous lackadaisical attitude about library business, and I think this is the beginning of a major feud.
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Re: WCDT 2942-2946 (20-24 April 2015)
« Reply #161 on: 21 Apr 2015, 21:10 »

Wait, there's people in the world who don't like chicken? THAT is a new. Seriously.

I don't like chicken. But that's because I like to eat things that can kill me in a fight. Except seafood, because I am allergic to it.
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Re: WCDT 2942-2946 (20-24 April 2015)
« Reply #162 on: 21 Apr 2015, 21:48 »

Perhaps a more interesting question than what Claire thinks about Tai: If Claire's recommendations are going to library jobs or library science schools away from Northampton, will Marten be faced with the same choice that Faye had to make? How will his decision differ from or be similar to Faye's?

I think we're being set up for some interesting parallels here.
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Re: WCDT 2942-2946 (20-24 April 2015)
« Reply #163 on: 21 Apr 2015, 21:55 »

Perhaps a more interesting question than what Claire thinks about Tai: If Claire's recommendations are going to library jobs or library science schools away from Northampton, will Marten be faced with the same choice that Faye had to make? How will his decision differ from or be similar to Faye's?

I think we're being set up for some interesting parallels here.

Oooh, hadn't thought of that.  My assumption has always been that Claire would continue working at Smif, but I like where you're going with this.  Although it seems rather soon in the relationship--as intimate as they've been so far, I can't see Claire (or Marten) choosing a week-old relationship over a great job opportunity, or Marten uprooting his life (again) to follow Claire for same.  Much better plotwise if this happens a few months (in-comic) down the road.  Claire gets hired on at Smif first, then sees an opportunity to transfer...

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Re: WCDT 2942-2946 (20-24 April 2015)
« Reply #164 on: 21 Apr 2015, 22:06 »

Well, Marten doesn't have Faye's issues complicating a move, and he's expressed some dissatisfaction with his job at the library. So in those ways he has less holding him to the area that Faye had. On the other hand, he's friends and Mother live in town, his band lives and practices there. So there's also no real reason for him to leave that behind either. More to the point though, Claire has more connections to the area and reasons to stay for now than Marten does. Mostly the fact that she's still a student as SMIF and probably will be for another year or two at least. Now I could see her maybe going to another school for grad studies, and possibly moving to another town to take a library position... but by the time that rolls around Claire and Marten will have either broken up, or be thinking that it's something serious. Which would make a big difference in the decision process.
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Re: WCDT 2942-2946 (20-24 April 2015)
« Reply #165 on: 21 Apr 2015, 22:10 »

My impression of Tai has always been that she takes individual things seriously or not based on what is important to her, not based on social norms or expectations. For the purposes of the job, that means that all of the work gets done, students are given needed help, etc., but she doesn't bother with dress codes or other elements of traditional formality. I don't see her as someone who would get high at work often, if at all.

This is, for example, why she was willing to hire Marten immediately and has kept him on. If she were high all of the time he likely wouldn't have remained working there for long, either by his choice or her randomly changing her mind. Instead, she hired him because she had a good feeling about him as a person, which has been borne out by his willingness to learn and do the job rather than to simply coast. She did not worry about his experience or long-term ambitions, because neither affects her view of the world.

Working on this assumption, I think that the "good job" review is basically a joke. She may ask the interns to write their own evaluations, or to write them for each other, but she has probably already written real ones and would use that exercise as a test.
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Re: WCDT 2942-2946 (20-24 April 2015)
« Reply #166 on: 21 Apr 2015, 22:24 »

Except we have empirical evidence in-comic that Tai -does- get high at work on at least a semi-regular basis, and not just on weed. I don't recall what substance she was on when she was seeing Marten and... I think it was Hanners? as dragons.

As for taking personal things seriously, I'd have to disagree, as evidenced by, for example, her lack of taking Marten's warning about messing with Hanners seriously after he tried at least twice to try and get her to do so. There's more examples, but that one's the first to come to mind.
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Re: WCDT 2942-2946 (20-24 April 2015)
« Reply #167 on: 21 Apr 2015, 22:40 »

On the other hand, he's friends and Mother live in town, his band lives and practices there.

Marten might be better off with a reasonable distance between him and his overbearing mother.
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Re: WCDT 2942-2946 (20-24 April 2015)
« Reply #168 on: 21 Apr 2015, 22:53 »

I've often wondered what Tai has on the Library Administration that makes it possible for her to maintain her position there.

I envisage some minor drama here from Claire.
A similar one to the one that gave Marten a raise?

As a side note, the only guy I've known that smoke weed during work was let go, not so much because of the weed but more because his language deteriorated into cluster f-bombs, sometimes interrupted by normal words, when he was high. He even sent emails to people that were impossible to read because of the extreme ratio of naughty words to actual content (well over 10:1).
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Re: WCDT 2942-2946 (20-24 April 2015)
« Reply #169 on: 21 Apr 2015, 22:56 »

Except we have empirical evidence in-comic that Tai -does- get high at work on at least a semi-regular basis, and not just on weed. I don't recall what substance she was on when she was seeing Marten and... I think it was Hanners? as dragons.

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Re: WCDT 2942-2946 (20-24 April 2015)
« Reply #170 on: 21 Apr 2015, 23:05 »

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Re: WCDT 2942-2946 (20-24 April 2015)
« Reply #171 on: 21 Apr 2015, 23:11 »

Except we have empirical evidence in-comic that Tai -does- get high at work on at least a semi-regular basis, and not just on weed. I don't recall what substance she was on when she was seeing Marten and... I think it was Hanners? as dragons.

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Re: WCDT 2942-2946 (20-24 April 2015)
« Reply #172 on: 21 Apr 2015, 23:38 »

There is an interpretation of the strip where Tai gave Claire a flyer for a 'carnal playground' being held at the library as being Tai mocking how seriously Claire takes the job (the proof being the flyer having the exact same wording as Claire's rant in the strip). So, it's possible that this is Tai poking fun at how seriously Claire takes her internship. It wouldn't surprise me if she has proper evaluations written (and what could she possibly say about Emily?).

After all, Claire does take this seriously; her final grade depends on it! It doesn't seem in-character for Tai to be that callous.

However, the point made up-thread about Tai not caring about things that she doesn't think of as personally important is true. It's quite possible that she finds Claire's goals and priorities so alien that she can't take them seriously. Maybe, to her, the library is an elegant dodge to avoid getting a proper job where her lifestyle would be impeded and she can't see how anyone could view it differently.

Optimistically, Tai is going to give Claire a lecture on being less uptight and then tell her that the evaluation has already been filed.

Pessimistically, Tai has no interest in it. When Claire tries to explain how important it is to her dreams, Tai mocks her or dismisses the idea as stupid. "You need to get a life, Shorty!" She suggests that, if it's so important to her, she'll get Marten to 'throw something together' (can you say 'conflict of interest'?). Worst case, Claire loses her temper and Tai dismisses her for dragging her down from her high too quickly. Marten or Emily hear about it and the entire staff quit, going to complain to the Board of Trustees. Their complaint is identical to Gabby's and Tai finds herself in hot water that she is emotionally ill-equipped to deal with. Complications follow.

Honestly, this latter option is too dark for Jeph. One alternative that I can see is Claire breaking down and having an anxiety attack. Tai is shocked that anyone could take this so seriously and has a little crisis of her own as she tries to calm down a hyperventilating Claire. She later has a conversation with Dora on the subject and begins to realise just how harmful her self-centered and hedonistic mindset is to her friends.
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Re: WCDT 2942-2946 (20-24 April 2015)
« Reply #173 on: 22 Apr 2015, 00:19 »

Either a real evaluation has been submitted to the proper people, or Claire's going to take Tai to task. I think I consider the latter to be more likely, as most relevant plot in this strip evaporates if Tai was just pulling Claire's leg.
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Re: WCDT 2942-2946 (20-24 April 2015)
« Reply #174 on: 22 Apr 2015, 00:56 »

Tai will tell Marten that since he's been supervising the interns, he should write their evaluations. Drama ensues.
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Re: WCDT 2942-2946 (20-24 April 2015)
« Reply #175 on: 22 Apr 2015, 01:00 »

Either a real evaluation has been submitted to the proper people, or Claire's going to take Tai to task. I think I consider the latter to be more likely, as most relevant plot in this strip evaporates if Tai was just pulling Claire's leg.

I'm hoping that it is a joke on Tai's part, as we've had quite a bit of long, plot driven strips lately. Personally i think a week of one off, gag strips with no big plot-line, is just what the doctor ordered.
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Re: WCDT 2942-2946 (20-24 April 2015)
« Reply #176 on: 22 Apr 2015, 01:12 »

I also think that it is a joke (although you never quite know with Tai). But what interests me is what Claire wants to do next. How long is she studying for? What are her plans? Does she want to stay in Northampton? Finishing her internship is one more step along a road that most of the other characters (Marten included) don't seem to be terribly bothered about taking.

It might take a while but there will be interesting times ahead and possibly stormy seas for Marten and Claire.
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Re: WCDT 2942-2946 (20-24 April 2015)
« Reply #177 on: 22 Apr 2015, 01:26 »

I suspect that tomorrow will be four panels of Claire ranting before, in panel 5, she flees Tai's office in tears with a parting cry of: "Thanks for fucking up my life, Boss!". Panel six will be a close up of a horrified Tai's face and her whispering: "Oh fuck...! She's serious!"

Friday will see Marten storming into Tai's office to tear her a new one to find her slaving over her PC and clearly under a lot of stress. It turns out that Tai has never written a report or done anything seriously work-related before (having copied and pasted her way through her Liberal Arts degree for a bare-minimum graduation, mostly thanks to a professor who is as much as a stoner as she is). She's in a panic; she doesn't know what to do but she can't let Claire down like that!

Marten will spend two panels gently explaining to her that, really, all she has to do is write down her impressions of Claire the Librarian and Claire the person, good and bad. Momo has already found a blank template, so there's no need to worry about formatting. "I'm sure you'll manage," he'll conclude in panel 5. "In fact, I wonder if you'll surprise yourself!" Panel six will be Tai sitting at the keyboard with an insert of the start of a Word document - "Internship Report for Claire Augustus".

I think that next week will be entirely Tai's report on Claire as a narration whilst the art will be dialogue-free panels illustrating what Tai is writing.
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Re: WCDT 2942-2946 (20-24 April 2015)
« Reply #178 on: 22 Apr 2015, 01:27 »

is marten an intern or does he just work as some sort of general library slave?
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« Reply #179 on: 22 Apr 2015, 01:29 »

is marten an intern or does he just work as some sort of general library slave?

I'm not sure of Marten's specific job title, but I think he's Tai's assistant and a full employee of the college rather than an intern. He's probably got a fancy job title like 'Office Administrator' or 'Head Librarian's Administrative Assistant' or something like that.

Functionally, the experience he has gained over the last year or so would likely qualify him to stay on in a purely admin role (at least officially) if Tai were to suddenly quit or be fired for dropping the ball with the interns. Officially, he'd have no 'librarian' role but, given how he inducted the three interns, I think he knows enough about that end of the operation too.
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Re: WCDT 2942-2946 (20-24 April 2015)
« Reply #180 on: 22 Apr 2015, 02:01 »

The job title is usually Library Assistant.
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Re: WCDT 2942-2946 (20-24 April 2015)
« Reply #181 on: 22 Apr 2015, 02:53 »

Honestly, I don't think Tai is high here. She just knows how (over) seriously Claire takes working at the library and likes to poke fun at it. She's probably had this joke primed and ready to go for a while now, with a proper evaluation ready to be sent.
That is my impression as well. However, it is a sign of changes to come, even in the glacial timeline of QC. We do not know if Claire graduates soon, but at least she is not going to work at the library anymore. But because of Marten and her love of books, she may of course be a frequent visitor.
And then Claire graduated and moved to new york.
It is a possibility, and it would create similarities (or differences) to the Faye/Angus situation. But somehow, I do not think this will happen. Claire is too rooted in Northampton. If anything, Tai will quit or get fired, and Claire will get her job at the library.

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« Reply #182 on: 22 Apr 2015, 02:56 »

You must understand that there are always a few people who refuse to bend the knee and.... sometimes there are bones to get rid of okay?

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Re: WCDT 2942-2946 (20-24 April 2015)
« Reply #183 on: 22 Apr 2015, 02:57 »

You know, a while back, I thought that maybe the drama would be that Claire would replace Tai.

I'm seeing nothing to say that this isn't possible still.
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Re: WCDT 2942-2946 (20-24 April 2015)
« Reply #184 on: 22 Apr 2015, 03:15 »

Regarding Claire's educational situation, my understanding is that she's in the last year of her Masters of Library Science degree and, assuming Tai hasn't irreparably screwed up, will graduate this year.

You know, a while back, I thought that maybe the drama would be that Claire would replace Tai.

Not replace but librarians are always further up the heap than the admin team. If Claire is hired, even as a junior librarian, she'll suddenly find herself outside of Tai and Marten's authority and technically their superior in the organisation. I doubt that Marten would care much (he's used to being at the mercy of mercurial females) although it would make the whole 'no PDIs at work' thing develop a completely different flavour. Unless Marten's reaction to her in 'librarian' mode is so strong that her willpower gives out and she realises that you can lock the copier room from the inside. :wink:

I really don't know if Tai could survive having Claire being above her in the chain of command. Claire strikes me as never having really warmed up to Tai's style and behaviour. Tai could easily be forced out because, frankly, Claire won't take her shit anymore and now has the power to make that stick.
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Re: WCDT 2942-2946 (20-24 April 2015)
« Reply #185 on: 22 Apr 2015, 03:29 »

I really don't know if Tai could survive having Claire being above her in the chain of command. Claire strikes me as never having really warmed up to Tai's style and behaviour. Tai could easily be forced out because, frankly, Claire won't take her shit anymore and now has the power to make that stick.
Claire and Tai were well aligned in #2481. Claire may find Tai irritating at times, but I guess she realizes that Tai is just teasing her.

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Re: WCDT 2942-2946 (20-24 April 2015)
« Reply #186 on: 22 Apr 2015, 04:49 »

A Jorb Well Done (because I was reminded of it and feel like linking it)

Dammit, I was going to link to that...  Friggin' ninjas, man.
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Re: WCDT 2942-2946 (20-24 April 2015)
« Reply #187 on: 22 Apr 2015, 05:05 »

It should be noted that Tai has been high, but not quite this high. Something's wrong with her. I don't think it's really fair to judge Tai for "being high this often", seeing as we've only seen her in dramatically convenient situations.

Either way; my point. Tai is broken up about the fight she and Dora had. As you can see, Tai even forgot to wrap her chest like she usually does. To me, this signifies that she was in such a rush to get out of Dora's home that she didn't have time to. Because of the stress, she's high. Much higher than she ever is. It is dramatically convenient, because this mirrors Faye's abuse of alcohol following Angus' departure.
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Re: WCDT 2942-2946 (20-24 April 2015)
« Reply #188 on: 22 Apr 2015, 05:36 »

You must understand that there are always a few people who refuse to bend the knee and.... sometimes there are bones to get rid of okay?

I suppose they thought that sword of yours was strictly ceremonial M'Lady. Bad Mistake.

At first I was confused both because it came up the morning after I reread Elizabeth Moon's _The Last Lesson_ and because only one forum member has ever seen a photo of me with a sword (cosplay) and it wasn't you. Then I remembered Sir Glad's posting.

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Re: WCDT 2942-2946 (20-24 April 2015)
« Reply #189 on: 22 Apr 2015, 06:23 »

A Jorb Well Done (because I was reminded of it and feel like linking it)

Lol, if someone else hadn't linked that, I was going to.

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Re: WCDT 2942-2946 (20-24 April 2015)
« Reply #190 on: 22 Apr 2015, 06:38 »

Wait, there's people in the world who don't like chicken? THAT is a new. Seriously.
I don't eat meat of any kind... So chicken, never mind day-old Mac and cheese, is right out. My favourite day-old food is rice; left-over boiled rice can always be whipped into a tasty fried-rice dish.

It should be noted that Tai has been high, but not quite this high.
I think the jury's still out on that. Reading some of the comments above, I wonder if I'm even reading the same comic. "Completly bloodshot eyes and major bags under the eyes"? Seriously?


As for the breast-binding thing, Tai seemed to give that up (or Jeph just forgot about it) at least as long ago as her first date with Dora. Even way back in 2008 her bust was uncompressed. So reading this as a sign that "Something's wrong with her" seems dubious to me. I think Tai is just winding Claire up.

You must understand that there are always a few people who refuse to bend the knee and.... sometimes there are bones to get rid of okay?
A true Empress leaves the disposal of the recalcitrant, and their bones, to her minions...
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Re: WCDT 2942-2946 (20-24 April 2015)
« Reply #191 on: 22 Apr 2015, 06:46 »

It should be noted that Tai has been high, but not quite this high.

SHe's been so high she sees dragons.

All this strip shows is her with bloodshot eyes, looking tired and (possibly jokingly) giving Claire a sheet of paper saying good job and calling it an evaluation
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Re: WCDT 2942-2946 (20-24 April 2015)
« Reply #192 on: 22 Apr 2015, 06:49 »

We don't even have empirical proof she IS high, seeing as bloodshot eyes and bags beneath them are also symptoms of a lack of sleep, which isn't an entirely unlikely possibility, given the tension between Tai and Dora. It's definitely not impossible, considering Tai; it might even be likely, but it's not a proven fact.
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Re: WCDT 2942-2946 (20-24 April 2015)
« Reply #193 on: 22 Apr 2015, 06:52 »

I'm going with Akima here.. I just don't see 'blood shot eyes with bags' in today's comic. Like, at all.
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Re: WCDT 2942-2946 (20-24 April 2015)
« Reply #194 on: 22 Apr 2015, 07:49 »

It is a possibility, and it would create similarities (or differences) to the Faye/Angus situation. But somehow, I do not think this will happen. Claire is too rooted in Northampton. If anything, Tai will quit or get fired, and Claire will get her job at the library.

I think today's strip might be part of a long setup for the latter half of your prediction. The former part I'm not so sure of. Jeph recycles a lot of gags ("You're pretty!" "So are you *blush*") but I'm not sure he'd recycle an entire storyline, as he'd be doing there (or by fleshing out the similarities between Tai's attitude/conduct at work and Faye's attitude/conduct at her former place of employment, especially WRT Dora's outlook on both).
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Re: WCDT 2942-2946 (20-24 April 2015)
« Reply #195 on: 22 Apr 2015, 08:00 »

It is a possibility, and it would create similarities (or differences) to the Faye/Angus situation. But somehow, I do not think this will happen. Claire is too rooted in Northampton. If anything, Tai will quit or get fired, and Claire will get her job at the library.

I think today's strip might be part of a long setup for the latter half of your prediction. The former part I'm not so sure of. Jeph recycles a lot of gags ("You're pretty!" "So are you *blush*") but I'm not sure he'd recycle an entire storyline, as he'd be doing there (or by fleshing out the similarities between Tai's attitude/conduct at work and Faye's attitude/conduct at her former place of employment, especially WRT Dora's outlook on both).

Especially not in such quick succession.
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Re: WCDT 2942-2946 (20-24 April 2015)
« Reply #196 on: 22 Apr 2015, 08:42 »

Tai will tell Marten that since he's been supervising the interns, he should write their evaluations. Drama ensues.

Soon, at Claire's professor's office.

"So...Miss Augustus. Your performance review mentions that you're 'Super cute and have really pretty hair'."
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Re: WCDT 2942-2946 (20-24 April 2015)
« Reply #197 on: 22 Apr 2015, 09:34 »

The Smif library isn't a long-term job for Claire. If the administration lets slackers like Tai run the place, she'll not be happy there. Her best bet is to not bother with any drama with Tai; just write up a good evaluation (or have Marten do it), and get Tai to sign off. From there she needs to find a library that values her professional skills (it's a northeastern college town; there'll be other libraries, and Claire has a car).

WRT the idea that Tai has already written a real evaluation and is just pulling Claire's leg, we've never seen any indication of that level of conscientiousness or planning from Tai. I'll believe it when I see it.
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Re: WCDT 2942-2946 (20-24 April 2015)
« Reply #198 on: 22 Apr 2015, 11:24 »

is marten an intern or does he just work as some sort of general library slave?

I'm not sure of Marten's specific job title, but I think he's Tai's assistant and a full employee of the college rather than an intern. He's probably got a fancy job title like 'Office Administrator' or 'Head Librarian's Administrative Assistant' or something like that.

Functionally, the experience he has gained over the last year or so would likely qualify him to stay on in a purely admin role (at least officially) if Tai were to suddenly quit or be fired for dropping the ball with the interns. Officially, he'd have no 'librarian' role but, given how he inducted the three interns, I think he knows enough about that end of the operation too.

A good friend of mine is a "Library Assistant" at a state college library in Mass. Without a Master's in library science, she says that's as high as she'll ever be allowed to get, despite having worked in various libraries for 20+ years and knowing more than many of her bosses.
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Re: WCDT 2942-2946 (20-24 April 2015)
« Reply #199 on: 22 Apr 2015, 11:25 »

I'm going with Akima here.. I just don't see 'blood shot eyes with bags' in today's comic. Like, at all.

Me either.
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