Now if I had baby-infested armour at my command, the teachers would do their attendance correctly

[felis_ultharus]

Gah. I don't have many bad days at work -- I like my job -- but I definitely had one, today.

One teacher managed to make 65 errors on a single page of a single week's attendance -- which means she entered every bit of information for every student and herself incorrectly for a week, excepting her initials. Actually, I'm a little surprised she got her initials right.

She's very nice, but I think Oliver Sachs could get a book out of her math skills and memory.

In better news, I'm back up to a steady 2000 words a day again, and the novel is coming together better-structured. I'm worried about giving daily progress reports after having disappointed people last time.

Plus, I got to hear jenjoou coin the term "baby-infested armour" last night. Context available upon request.

Comments

[jenjoou.livejournal.com]

Poor dear, she's nice and she means well, eh?

And don't forget about the magic nazis. ;) Indiana Jones would have hated this movie. ;)

[felis-ultharus.livejournal.com]

She's a very sweet British woman who's been known to bake us cookies. So far as I can see, her only personal failings are that she is (in her own words) "bureaucratically-challenged" and has admitted to liking marmite.

That said, her number of errors is astonishing to the point where our head of paedagogy was joking that we should ask her husband (a clinical pyschologist) about it. She now holds the record for number of errors -- all told, errors she made and caused by cascade-effect through her errors today was somewhere around 80.

And I think Indiana Jones would have liked the movie because -- having stolen shamelessly from Raiders of the Lost Ark -- it's ressurrected him for another generation.

[jenjoou.livejournal.com]

Yeah but all those snakes and nazis. ;)

[em-fish.livejournal.com]

Would the baby-infested armour really help you bend others to your will? Or would it just give you the awesome strength to crush them?

[felis-ultharus.livejournal.com]

That's why I like you Emma -- you raise the deep, philosophical questions no one else is prepared to plomb ^_^

[em-fish.livejournal.com]

Well a girl can't while away her entire life on glittery discoes and Schopenhauer, you know. :p

[yumemisama.livejournal.com]

Context, please.

It doesn't even have to be the original context. Any reasonably creative rationalization will do. ^_^

[felis-ultharus.livejournal.com]

I'm surprised you haven't seen Full Metal Alchemist.

Suffice to say that the demonic spirits with whom all Faustian deals are made in the series are represented as grinning, wide-eyed shadow-babies. I'm not sure if that's to heighten the horror through incongruity, or because they're always trying to be born in living bodies in our world.

A lot of the movie was stolen from Raiders of the Lost Ark, and when the ubiquitous Nazi researcher came through the gate where these things reside, she let them all out. They inhabited suits of armour, and transformed them into her undying army -- hence, "baby-infested armour."

I actually kind of wished I'd stopped with the series, now, and hadn't moved on to the movie :/

[yumemisama.livejournal.com]

I've seen some of FMA, but not all that much. I watched the first dozen or so episodes when I caught them on [adult swim], then I made the mistake of checking the online fandom. I had to stop and marinate my brain in bleach for a while after discovering the (unexpected, but *sigh* Internet, so it shouldn't have been) popularity of incest-slash. I mean, suit of armor. Auto-mail. OWOWOW.

I can only hope that the Law of Equivalent Exchanges applies to horrible fanfic as well. In that case, in order to bring something that painfully bad into existence, someone has to sacrifice something of equal value -- I think chucking the author and her unused spell-checker into a large hungry void should do nicely.