Kevin's Watch

ali's Raised Eyebrow
psytechnm's Performance Review


These are the two I like the most, but I agree all good stuff.

And the winner is ...

Spoiler

psytechnm!

If your annual performance review simply reads "You suffice" ... you might be a Bloodguard squeaked into the top spot. One of my favorites (possibly because that's what my performance reviews usually say), and also plenty of votes. Single Raised Eyebrow from Aliantha comes in second, and was my most favorite. I also loved Ramen Sign and Because you weren't asked from Matrixman. Of course, the others were great, too, and the audience agrees.

Congrats, psytechnm! Nicely done!

...always a bridesmaid, never a bride....

Congrats, psytechnm!

Thanks everyone!

I was trying to figure out how to use "suffice" in an entry and performance review popped into my head. After I had submitted my entry, I begin wondering about annual reviews for an occupation that could last thousands of years. Perhaps a longer period between reviews would be better? I started searching for terms to replace "annual" and couldn't find a site that listed them all (it's probably somewhere though). Tricennial (every thirty years) struck me as a plausible replacement but decided not to edit my entry.

millennial?

I thought it was funny that Haruchai would even have performance reviews. It's so ... so ... incongruous (?)

I agree. Either you "suffice", or you get killed in battle. Was there some other way out? Getting severely injured? I don't seem to recall any in the 1st or 2nd Cs, but then its being a while since I've reread them.

Anyway, I don't think Bloodguard had performance reviews as such, but if they did, I can see "You suffice." And it was the first thing that popped into my head when I was trying to work in "suffice" into an entry.

Consider the ritualistic combat between the Bloodguard prior to the mission to Seareach, confirming Korik's fitness to lead. That is a Haruchai performance review.

Congrats, psytechnm!

Nah, there was no way out other than death. That was the extreme fidelity of the Bloodguard: protect the Lords (or anyone you've assigned yourself to) at all costs, even if the price is your life. Otherwise, don't bother showing up for the job.

psytechnm wrote:Was there some other way out? Getting severely injured?

I remember one Haruchai or another having a broken limb (leg, I think, but I could be wrong) for a while, probably in the Second Chronicles. Didn't stop him; he had to suffice anyway.

Yeah, he totally did. And only wanted to be pushed up so he could continue fighting to the death.



Then Linden went crazy. /sigh.

That must have been Ceer in The One Tree. Linden tried to stab him when she confused him for dear old dad.

That's him.

Waiting for an idea ...

It seems like if I wait until I have a good idea, we'd be stuck for a while. So ...

Well, I have another 500, so here goes.

This Week's Contest

Last year, it was Limericks. This year, we'll do Haikus. Haikus with big fat words.

This week's contest is to write a haiku. A 5/7/5 haiku. A haiku using one (just one) of the following words: apotheosis, excoriation, ineluctable, preternatural, or unambergrised. And - yes - the words have a lot of syllables, don't they?

For example,

• Some may consider
  A Dread Poet victory
  ineluctable.

As usual, audience participation is encouraged, necessary, and appreciated.

(Entries are accepted until I post the winner.)

wayfriend wrote:This week's contest is to write a haiku. A 5/7/5 haiku. A haiku using one (just one) of the following words: apotheosis, excoriation, ineluctable, preternatural, or unambergrised. And - yes - the words have a lot of syllables, don't they?

For example,

• Some may consider
  A Dread Poet victory
  ineluctable.

*wonders if in this case wayfriend is a prophet*

this post exists as
justification for my
apotheosis

The unambergrised,
one-shoe'd wench starts to run, her
pumpkin black, rotting.



It didn't have to be on a TC theme, did it? I hope not. =/

A question for you wf, before I drive myself (and contestants) crazy...

Do you pronounce each of the required words with five syllables? So if used in the first or third line, they would be the only word used, such as in your example?

apotheosis, excoriation, ineluctable, preternatural, unambergrised

5, 5, 5, 5, 4 is my guess.