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Misha Day ([personal profile] mishaday) wrote2004-05-27 05:59 am
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Fever dreams

I'm not really feverish, no matter the cold, but I do think my brain is broken.

I drifted off last night while Immortalizing the spare Hogwarts faculty. Methos tripped Aidan and shoved her into the DADA position when I tried to suggest him instead, arm-wrestled Duncan for Muggle Studies (and lost, the scheming bastard) and finally got bored, scared Binns off and is now teaching History of Everything with Magic on the Side. The Slytherins can't decide whether to adore him or fear him. Or both.

I have this early doctor's appointment, and lacking the ability to actually trust my alarm, I started waking at intervals starting at 3am. I finally gave up on sleep around 5, but in the interim, I tried designing an ideal company in my head to get me back to sleep. It didn't work. So now I've got California Biodiesel, which produces biodiesel out of desert algae ponds in California and Arizona. (The triggering idea was an article on slashdot earlier this week.) No executive makes more than 8x the lowest paid worker, 4 weeks paid vacation a year to start, company-sponsored gyms, child-care and higher education. That sort of thing.

Come to think, what do y'all think an ideal company would do for its workers and community?
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[identity profile] ms-nerd.livejournal.com 2004-05-27 09:07 am (UTC)(link)
Dude, was that a dream or are you writing HL/HP, because WHOA!! LOL. I think Methos would be a Slytherin.

My ideal company would let the workers know wtf is going on with the company and have mandatory weekly communication meetings - not long ones - just a 1/2 hour 'hey man, how's it going? This is what's happening upstairs' kind of thing.

The problem with companies is that there are career executives driving a lot of them. They've gone to school, gotten an MBA, never actually 'worked' ever, just managed. And that's all I'm going to say about that LOL!!

Career execs

[identity profile] unmisha.livejournal.com 2004-05-27 09:47 am (UTC)(link)
The first thing I'd do if I actually started that mystical company, is hire my dad as CEO - he's got the business experience *and* the common sense that most of those shiny new grads are sadly lacking :)

[identity profile] m-butterfly.livejournal.com 2004-05-27 01:23 pm (UTC)(link)
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Whenever I run across HP/HL crosses they always seem to be trying to give him Defense Against the Dark Arts. And they never make me buy it.

But Methos teaching History of Magic, or more accurately History of Everything with Magic on the Side? Bloody. Perfect. And the Slytherin reaction? Also. Bloody. Perfect. Squeee.

[identity profile] unmisha.livejournal.com 2004-05-27 02:48 pm (UTC)(link)
Pfft - I agree. That's why I think he'd take one look at the track history for DADA and connive for someone else to take the job. And Aidan's just teacher-y enough and just honor-bound enough to take it. In a pinch, Duncan might do, but he'll be busy trying to get pureblooded wizards to understand eckltrickity. (Which he actually might manage)

I think Methos would excel at HoEwMotS. *snerk* Not that the students should take everything at face value...

"Helga? Nice lady - bit of a lush, though, really. She and Aidan went drinking this one night - took them a week to sober up!"

or

"Merlin? Nasty sword fetish. I thought having Silas put it through a boulder might put him off, but there he went, mucking about in politics. Ladies man, too. Ygraine, her daughter Morgana, then both of them one night!

"Stuck *in* a tree? Nope - Nimue spreadeagled him right beneath a willow. Much like the one you've got out back. Wasn't much more than a smear left after a couple of days."

"Pfft. Voldemort's just another wanna-be. Like he invented terror tactics. Why, just the other millenium, I..."

[identity profile] m-butterfly.livejournal.com 2004-05-27 05:00 pm (UTC)(link)
One of the problems I've always had with the Methos as DADA teacher is, well... his philosophy. The first half of it, actually, would probably appeal to the MoM, because it would probably be something like, "Try to avoid the fight if you possibly can," but they'd doubtless have problems with the second part, "And if you can't, do it as efficiently a possible."

Actually, he'd probably make a fairly good DADA teacher, at that--I just think he really, really wouldn't want to.

[identity profile] rosaleendhu.livejournal.com 2004-05-27 01:34 pm (UTC)(link)
O.O HL/HP? Write that. Please. Please write that.

[identity profile] unmisha.livejournal.com 2004-05-27 02:50 pm (UTC)(link)
It'll make it as far as my WIPs folder, but I can't promise anything beyond that.
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