Naoko's news, views and shoes thread

[NaokoSmith]

Bestial tales are OK on Literotica as long as there are no humans involved in the sexual activities.

Yayyy! HP, we can start writing.
A tale of wet tail. The plump bird who left a flock of cocks for whale tail. (Size mattered.)

Ooops. That was me. And I know better.

We will forgive you if you leave roses. (A dozen is the requisite number.)

Condoms for porn stars initiative qualifies for 2016 ballot

Naoko, California is with you. Even if pilot is opposed to the idea.

Cumming soon to an Erotic production in your town!

This thread needs more shoes...and Naoko's news.

I don't think I ever posted pix of my black shoes with the strap round the ankle. I will try to do so later today if I get time. I have to do the Piglet packed lunch and breakfast, and clean the kitchen, and go to the butchers for half a chicken and the farmers' market for my vegetables and eggs. Then I really want to go swimming. Later on, there's an early evening wine and nibbles do at my local village art gallery to which Piglet and I plan to go before rushing home to bake a blood orange sponge cake and watch Wales in the rugby.

I would really like to cook the half a chicken as a poulet à la Sainte-Menehould, but that would mean buying a bottle of wine. I'm trying to budget a bit now - not much helped by Piglet losing her school coat Unfortunately the weather in Wales means that a good waterproof coat is de riguer.

 

[MichaelinChina]

See dreams do indeed come true. Got a promise of shoes and some news for us.


Went to the campus this afternoon. Found the buildings and the rooms on my own, albeit with the help of passing students using my woeful Chinese.
Start Monday. 7 classes - no Tuesdays. Can't wait.

 

[Hypoxia]

Bestial tales are OK on Literotica as long as there are no humans involved in the sexual activities.

Or if they're fantasy vs real beasts. Unicorns, were-critters, talking apes-panthers-mantids, Orcs, crab-monsters from Sirius III, Republican Reptilioids / compassionate conservatives, creeping tentacles -- those all get a pass here when screwing humans. You can fuck your dog if it can discuss the foreplay.

Fido: Okay mistress, spread'em!
Judy: Oh no! It's barbed! Ayyy...!

Meanwhile, we're shaking-down the new housecar a bit more and preparing to run down towards Death Valley and maybe further for the SUPERBLOOM, the rare desert spread of insanely bright blossoms after a stormy California winter.

I last saw a superbloom in the western Mohave desert in January 1978, a wash of bright colors stretching across rugged expanses, triggered by Pacific hurricanes the prior autumn and winter. I drove through the Labor Day 1977 storm from Kansas to California across vast desert playas turned into inch-deep lakes mirroring cacti and sky. This year's El Niño funneled a sky river onto our deserts. Wildflower seeds respond. The result: GLORY! Maybe only matched when Nova Scotia's northern highlands blaze crimson in the fall.

Some psilocybin would help the colors too. Ever picked mushrooms from cow patties?

 

[MichaelinChina]

Or if they're fantasy vs real beasts. Unicorns, were-critters, talking apes-panthers-mantids, Orcs, crab-monsters from Sirius III, Republican Reptilioids / compassionate conservatives, creeping tentacles -- those all get a pass here when screwing humans. You can fuck your dog if it can discuss the foreplay.

Fido: Okay mistress, spread'em!
Judy: Oh no! It's barbed! Ayyy...!

Meanwhile, we're shaking-down the new housecar a bit more and preparing to run down towards Death Valley and maybe further for the SUPERBLOOM, the rare desert spread of insanely bright blossoms after a stormy California winter.

I last saw a superbloom in the western Mohave desert in January 1978, a wash of bright colors stretching across rugged expanses, triggered by Pacific hurricanes the prior autumn and winter. I drove through the Labor Day 1977 storm from Kansas to California across vast desert playas turned into inch-deep lakes mirroring cacti and sky. This year's El Niño funneled a sky river onto our deserts. Wildflower seeds respond. The result: GLORY! Maybe only matched when Nova Scotia's northern highlands blaze crimson in the fall.

Some psilocybin would help the colors too. Ever picked mushrooms from cow patties?

Trivia: I have heard that cow patties are sometimes called meadow muffins.
Chinese for cow patty is ma feng (pronounced like marfun/muffin).

 

[NotWise]

We will forgive you if you leave roses. (A dozen is the requisite number.)

Then a baker's dozen, but in two parts.

 

[NotWise]

We will forgive you if you leave roses. (A dozen is the requisite number.)

 

[redzinger]

I'm trying to budget a bit now - not much helped by Piglet losing her school coat Unfortunately the weather in Wales means that a good waterproof coat is de riguer.

I was in a local 'cheap'* charity shop the other day where I got a ski jacket for a fiver.

On my way out, I saw a lovely royal blue wool coat - label was Benetton. £5 also. Bargain. Unfortunately, it's a small 10, so currently a little tight.


*most of the 'charity shops' around here are actually chic boutiques, with matching price tags. Ridiculously expensive.

 

[NaokoSmith]

<snerk>, how long did it take you to work out that you can only post 10 emoticons?


I will be back properly soon. I have just come in for a grumble - HP and Ogg do so love to hear about my managers .

A student asked if we can film our tutorials eek. We can actually record the online ones, although my colleagues loathe this and refuse to do it. However as a student had actually asked about it, I emailed - or attempted to do so - our line manager (this is new supposedly cool line manager), copying everyone in and saying: "Can we re-think this? It is vewy vewy easy, my dear little colleagues."

An automatic thing popped up to say the line manager is on study leave so contact So-And-So. She didn't specify how long she will be on study leave, and I happen to know that she intends to f*ck off to do her Very Important Research soon, so I copied in the other line manager (Basturd who now loves the smell of my sh!t). An automatic thing popped up to say he is on study leave til Tuesday and then I saw that another automatic thing was popping up to say So-And-So is out of the office til Tuesday.

Good job it wasn't an emergency, huh.

 

[oggbashan]

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I will be back properly soon. I have just come in for a grumble - HP and Ogg do so love to hear about my managers .

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Good job it wasn't an emergency, huh.

Yes, I like to hear about your managers, and sigh.

Wherever I have worked there has been a functioning system of management operational 24/7 and 365/6 days a year. There had always been someone responsible and contactable if a crisis occurred. Sometimes that had been me - see a couple of my stories Christmas Journey and Christmas on Duty that used that as a story item.

We had annual arguments about scheduling leave so that at no time was work uncovered, nor an unacceptable number of people absent together. Scheduling leave was difficult to manage. Managers tried to give priority to people with children, then to those who had to fit around their partner's leave scheduling, then, and only then, to seniority. Young people without children, and older people with adult children had the last choice of holiday timing.

But three tiers of management out at once? That would have been impossible and very inefficent. Heads would have rolled unless there was a very good reason. Even so, there would have been a contact person known to all those affected.

But Naoko's managers? They don't know how to manage.

 

[oggbashan]

Daughter...

My eldest daughter wanted a Dad speech for her significant birthday, based on the speeches I gave at her other sisters' marriages - the father of the bride speech. Like her sisters, she set parameters - no childhood anecdotes nor awkward humour that might make them blush.

I found my files containing those decade-old speeches and modified one to suit the occasion. Last night she said "I don't want everyone looking at me when you give the speech". Doh!

Originally she had wanted the speech at a small gathering of local friends and her relations but at the time she was suffering from a virus and spent most of the celebration asleep, so Dad couldn't give the speech.

Now? She's worried that this gathering today will be too large and embarrassing for her if Dad gives the speech.

Being her Dad, I will do whatever she wants. She can have the speech, or not have the speech. She knows that her Dad won't be embarrassed whether he does or not. I speak on formal occasions far too often to be bothered about giving a speech.

 

[ishtat]

<snerk>, how long did it take you to work out that you can only post 10 emoticons?


I will be back properly soon. I have just come in for a grumble - HP and Ogg do so love to hear about my managers .

A student asked if we can film our tutorials eek. We can actually record the online ones, although my colleagues loathe this and refuse to do it. However as a student had actually asked about it, I emailed - or attempted to do so - our line manager (this is new supposedly cool line manager), copying everyone in and saying: "Can we re-think this? It is vewy vewy easy, my dear little colleagues."

An automatic thing popped up to say the line manager is on study leave so contact So-And-So. She didn't specify how long she will be on study leave, and I happen to know that she intends to f*ck off to do her Very Important Research soon, so I copied in the other line manager (Basturd who now loves the smell of my sh!t). An automatic thing popped up to say he is on study leave til Tuesday and then I saw that another automatic thing was popping up to say So-And-So is out of the office til Tuesday.

Good job it wasn't an emergency, huh.

Hmm, I'm going to play devils advocate a little.

1 Just because a student has asked for something is not of itself a good reason for doing it. Were reasons given for the request? Were they compelling? Is following up this request an appropriate prioritization of your time?

2 With respect Naoko, is it necessary or desirable to have line managers making decisions on every minor request?

3 In my experience, good people in your position don't always wait for a delegated authority - they take it. Could you have done that in this instance? Seeing that none of the managers was available could you have reasonably taken the decision yourself and avoided any flak by reminding the apparently responsible folk that none were available when a decision was required.

4 My recommendation generally, would be to do and tell, action tends to pre-empt discussion, and prompt telling affirms the action. Consultation is way over-rated, it gives time servers too many opportunities to intervene - because they can.

5 One point this and previous comments indicate, is that you have too many managers trying to justify their existence.

Not saying I'm right on any or all of these points - just trying to alter slightly the angle the issue is viewed from.

 

[Handley_Page]

I will be back properly soon. I have just come in for a grumble - HP and Ogg do so love to hear about my managers .

A student asked if we can film our tutorials eek. We can actually record the online ones, although my colleagues loathe this and refuse to do it. However as a student had actually asked about it, I emailed - or attempted to do so - our line manager (this is new supposedly cool line manager), copying everyone in and saying: "Can we re-think this? It is vewy vewy easy, my dear little colleagues."

An automatic thing popped up to say the line manager is on study leave so contact So-And-So. She didn't specify how long she will be on study leave, and I happen to know that she intends to f*ck off to do her Very Important Research soon, so I copied in the other line manager (Basturd, who now loves the smell of my sh!t). An automatic thing popped up to say he is on study leave 'til Tuesday and then I saw that another automatic thing was popping up to say So-And-So is out of the office 'til Tuesday.

Good job it wasn't an emergency, huh.

And if it was (define "emergency" please), one wonders quite what they could, or would, do.

Yes, I like to hear about your managers, and sigh.

Wherever I have worked there has been a functioning system of management operational 24/7 and 365/6 days a year. There had always been someone responsible and contactable if a crisis occurred. Sometimes that had been me - see a couple of my stories Christmas Journey and Christmas on Duty that used that as a story item.

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But three tiers of management out at once? That would have been impossible and very inefficent. Heads would have rolled unless there was a very good reason. Even so, there would have been a contact person known to all those affected.

But Naoko's managers? They don't know how to manage.

Frankly, Ogg, I begin to doubt if they know what the word means.

 

[oggbashan]

Hmm, I'm going to play devils advocate a little.

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ishtat, what you advise would be reasonable, but not in Dr. Naoko's position.

The request she forwarded is part of a long campaign to make her employers more efficient and competent. They continually demonstrate that they are not. Naoko, and more importantly, her students, suffer the consequences.

She is a part-time sessional employee on short term contracts and has NO authority to do anything, even about her own work methods. She cannot Do and Tell without incurring the wrath of her managers, some of whom are already concerned that Naoko has been responsible for the initiation of simple improvements they ought to have done themselves after the deficiencies were noticed. She is walking on very thin ice.

Her employers and managers have shown staggering incompetence year on year. They use online tutorials but do not understand or use the technology effectively.

I'm sure Naoko would like to be able to follow your suggestions. But my advice is simple. She shouldn't. She should keep her head down for a few months until her line manager moves on, and try to build a better relationship with the replacement.

But, being Naoko, keeping quiet while her managers mess up will be very difficult.

 

[NaokoSmith]

Hmm, I'm going to play devils advocate a little.

1 Just because a student has asked for something is not of itself a good reason for doing it...

2 With respect Naoko, is it necessary or desirable to have line managers making decisions on every minor request?

3 good people in your position don't always wait for a delegated authority - they take it.

Quite right, and at the tutorial I pointed out to the student that filming it is a) very expensive, b) we tutors are concerned that people will be less likely to come along if there is going to be a film of the tutorial later. Watching the tutorial (not a lecture, note), is not nearly as good for you as taking part in it. Today, following the tutorial, the student has posted some additional thoughtful comments about this and said nice things about how much he enjoyed the tutorial, encouraging others to go to them

I usually do just go ahead and teach how I want to, because if managers object I can always point to a dereliction of duty on their part which has led to me taking my own way. In this case, however, my colleagues and I are in disagreement. I and a couple of others want to record our online tutorials and make the recordings available afterwards (I won't go into the minutiae as to why this differs from filming the face to face tutorials). Several other tutors dislike the idea and threw their toys out of the pram when the idea was first mooted, leading to ours being the only region which doesn't do it. Since students are now asking for it, I am putting it up for consideration again - pointing out that other regions do it as standard and that it's very easy to do. If the decision is taken against it again, then I want someone-else to stand up and say we won't be providing recordings and offering their rather dubious reasons for not doing so. (Mainly consists of they don't like the sound of their own voice. My main concern is that students will react like fans of my text-with-audio story, and be begging me to read to them all the time! )

 

[oggbashan]

Update on Daughter - post a few above

My daughter was persuaded by her sister to have the speech, but she hid in the kitchen doorway while I gave it, just in case I embarrassed her.

I didn't, not with my words, but did just by giving the speech. She appreciated it - afterwards, but not at the time.

 

[NaokoSmith]

Hey, chaps!

Piglet has gone to a trampoline party so I have got a couple of hours in which to watch the recording of the Italy v Scotland match (I had to teach while it was on - greater love hath no tutor) and sign up to a dating site. I am a bit fed up of cruising the cocktail bar, where I only seem to be able to pick up men who are too young to know better and that one (married ) rugby CEO.

I found two sites: a local one full of adverts saying things like: "I am a married truck driver, message me." Then I found a site belonging to a classical music radio station, where there are serious dating adverts from people who want to meet someone who is not the average BooBoo.

I am going to pretend Piglet is grownup until I get to know people better. Hopefully I can figure it all out properly. It was only the other day that I realised if you are looking for an 'activity partner' it means you want someone to go to the gym or play tennis with, not ... the sort of thing we on here might call 'activity' They have lots of questions about what you're like and who you want to meet, like: My favourite item of clothing. Jeepers! you have to pick just one! I'm just going to write 'Chanel No. 5'. (Actually I wear Aqua di Parma Mirto di Panarea, but it's the principle of the thing.)

Wish me luck! I do hope to meet someone as nice as all the dirty old men ... I mean fine upstanding gennelmen, and lovely ladies on here. Just single and living at least on the same continent as me *sigh*.

 

[NaokoSmith]

ishtat, what you advise would be reasonable, but not in Dr. Naoko's position.

Ooh, I skipped you. I will have to give you a kiss.



I have been so grateful for people's support and advice on here. At times when I wondered if I was the crazy one, I could always come on here and people would say the management I suffer makes their hair stand on end and I am the eminently reasonable rock around which the management maelstrom is breaking.

I am grateful to ishtat too because it does help when people put an opposing view, and you can say: "Not quite, because [set of mitigating factors]."

Poor Ogg and HP have literally spent years following my career, with the same sort of fascination as people watching disaster movies. "Oh migosh, will she get away from the raptor, while wearing those high heels and running backwards? I can't believe she managed to do that!!!." These are unfortunately a bunch of stupid and jealous people, who heartily dislike it when I talk to my colleagues (we teach in a team so if we don't talk, total chaos ensues) and sort things out which the managers should have sorted out long before our teaching even started. I recently had an email - I mean she put it in writing - from the one line manager saying "I know you think I am totally incompetent." The truth is worse. She is perfectly competent, but as she put it in another email: "I don't care ..." (which of you takes on this teaching and who gets off scot free when they are contracted to teach, and paid to teach and will now just be able to take the night off).

Anyway, never mind that. My teaching went brilliantly, guys! Students were shouting out with joy at finally understanding how to do a simple in-text citation and how the a, b and c system of multiple author referencing works. No, I didn't bother to copy the managers into my email feeding back on the session to my colleagues

Now I am off to sort out the online dating thing. Hope I find someone who can laugh as heartily at my managers as Ogg and HP do! and help me keep perspective on them like you all have done in here over the years.

 

[curl4ever]

Yeaaa, Naoko!

 

[NaokoSmith]

Yeaaa, Naoko!

baby!

Well, that's done. I found out they have some kind of software that only allows you to show off a photo that's a clear head and shoulders shot. I put a profile pic with some stuff in it, but they won't show it unless I also put a head and shoulders shot. So I will think carefully about that one.


(ETA: Kewell! as redzinger says I already have a 'fan' on the dating site . I never even got to put 'Chanel No. 5' as they are all stock answers to what is your favourite garment. Hopefully he will message me too with contact details! as I have been too mean to pay the subscription, so I can't send people messages unless they message me with an email address.)

 

[oggbashan]

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Well, that's done. I found out they have some kind of software that only allows you to show off a photo that's a clear head and shoulders shot. I put a profile pic with some stuff in it, but they won't show it unless I also put a head and shoulders shot. So I will think carefully about that one.


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A profile pic that doesn't show Naoko's legs? Shame. We want more legs! And shoes!

 

[glynndah]

baby!

Well, that's done. I found out they have some kind of software that only allows you to show off a photo that's a clear head and shoulders shot. I put a profile pic with some stuff in it, but they won't show it unless I also put a head and shoulders shot. So I will think carefully about that one.


(ETA: Kewell! as redzinger says I already have a 'fan' on the dating site . I never even got to put 'Chanel No. 5' as they are all stock answers to what is your favourite garment. Hopefully he will message me too with contact details! as I have been too mean to pay the subscription, so I can't send people messages unless they message me with an email address.)

They want to see which kind of shampoo you use?!?

http://becomeacouponqueen.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/head-shoulders.jpg

 

[Handley_Page]

They want to see which kind of shampoo you use?!?

Trust you to pick the " absurdam" bit.
I think it's what makes you an amusing author to read.

 

[NaokoSmith]

A profile pic that doesn't show Naoko's legs? Shame. We want more legs! And shoes!

You can't put legs and shoes up! Honestly, this site has no understanding of these simple fetishes.

They want to see which kind of shampoo you use?!?

I'm still trying to figure the dating site out. I had two messages, not ones I really felt too bothered about not being able to reply to properly. I just used a free one-liner: "I haven't got a subscription yet so I can only send one-liners." Neither one sent me a contact email so either they are too thick to realise I need one, or they are nervous about handing out their email address (FFS - make one up!!!) or the site redacts email addresses if you put them in your message. I'm trying to figure that one out.

One guy did 'Favourite' me who looks quite nice and lives nearby. I 'Favourite'd him back but haven't heard any more from him yet. Maybe he was snapped up by some other slag.

It's very expensive to subscribe to the site - £40 for one month! Still, as my friend in Aus remarked, that keeps the sleazeballs and teases out of it. I'm going to spend a few days cruising on there and try to get the hang of it then think if it would be worth forking out £40. Gah - that's the price of a meal! well - starter and a glass of champagne anyway

(Just waiting for HP to come on and blow a gasket at such extravagance. Cup of coffee, dahlink? )

Better go and phone Outlaw Dad now. The Fella is in the Netherlands so I promised to keep an eye on him.

https://images.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmonicaacoleman.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2011%2F08%2Fcup-of-coffee.jpg&f=1

 

[MichaelinChina]

You can't put legs and shoes up! Honestly, this site has no understanding of these simple fetishes.





I'm still trying to figure the dating site out. I had two messages, not ones I really felt too bothered about not being able to reply to properly. I just used a free one-liner: "I haven't got a subscription yet so I can only send one-liners." Neither one sent me a contact email so either they are too thick to realise I need one, or they are nervous about handing out their email address (FFS - make one up!!!) or the site redacts email addresses if you put them in your message. I'm trying to figure that one out.

One guy did 'Favourite' me who looks quite nice and lives nearby. I 'Favourite'd him back but haven't heard any more from him yet. Maybe he was snapped up by some other slag.

It's very expensive to subscribe to the site - £40 for one month! Still, as my friend in Aus remarked, that keeps the sleazeballs and teases out of it. I'm going to spend a few days cruising on there and try to get the hang of it then think if it would be worth forking out £40. Gah - that's the price of a meal! well - starter and a glass of champagne anyway

(Just waiting for HP to come on and blow a gasket at such extravagance. Cup of coffee, dahlink? )

Better go and phone Outlaw Dad now. The Fella is in the Netherlands so I promised to keep an eye on him.

https://images.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmonicaacoleman.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2011%2F08%2Fcup-of-coffee.jpg&f=1

Naoko, what is the difference between a dating site and Lit? It doesn't cost a cent to meet and get to know interesting, available, intelligent, sensitive, 'real' men.

 

[Handley_Page]

You can't put legs and shoes up! Honestly, this site has no understanding of these simple fetishes.



One guy did 'Favourite' me who looks quite nice and lives nearby. I 'Favourite'd him back but haven't heard any more from him yet. Maybe he was snapped up by some other slag.

It's very expensive to subscribe to the site - £40 for one month! Still, as my friend in Aus remarked, that keeps the sleazeballs and teases out of it. I'm going to spend a few days cruising on there and try to get the hang of it then think if it would be worth forking out £40. Gah - that's the price of a meal! well - starter and a glass of champagne anyway

(Just waiting for HP to come on and blow a gasket at such extravagance. Cup of coffee, dahlink? )

Love one, sweetie, thanks.

But I take issue with This:
"Maybe he was snapped up by some other slag. "
As I understand it, that implies that you consider yourself to be a slag.
There's a bunch of fellows who would disagree with that definition.


MichaelinChina; Naoko, what is the difference between a dating site and Lit? It doesn't cost a cent to meet and get to know interesting, available, intelligent, sensitive, 'real' men. [/QUOTE]

Distance to travel, for a start, I suspect!