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Nov. 9th, 2012

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How to make your administrative assistant cry: first, schedule a meeting with a complicated repeat schedule.

Then, have the calendar software entirely unable to handle the repeat in one meeting.

Make sure the meeting involves no fewer than 30 people.

After that, wait a month and make sure the repeat schedule of the second meeting is fucked up.

When the admin apologetically changes the meeting, don't actually fix it.

Don't fix it the second time either.

By this time, your admin should be leaking tears of frustration and trying to decide between the rum in her own desk drawer, raiding the gin in her one friend's desk, or the vodka in her other friend's desk. Or maybe crawling under her desk and not coming out for an hour.

Make sure your admin posts about the woes to the tech support forum before calling the helpdesk to yell a bit.

Why, yes, deleting the whole series and creating it again is one way to do it, but that lacks both elegance and the spirit of troubleshooting. Which is a great topic for a passive-aggressive follow-up comment in the forums.

Oooh, the engineer in the forums agrees with me.

At this point it helps if your admin is stubborn and also remembers that the creation was a little weird.

Your admin should remember to keep the "MOTHERFUCKER" out of the "I DUPLICATED THE MOTHERFUCKER" when posting to the forums in triumph.

When the engineer duplicates it too and files a ticket, have someone around for your admin to recount the tale to.


For the record? Until this is fixed, duplicating repeating calendar events is unwise when using the little platform that sometimes could, unless it is okay if the repeat cannot be changed.
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I see that fanlore redirects from Head Canon to Fanon, and I think this is basically inaccurate.

I think the two things are very similar, but there is a nuance of distinction.

Fanon is a widely shared form of headcanon, but headcanon does not have to be shared with anyone else. Headcanon is yours, no matter how many other people share that belief. There is no implication of consensus as there is with fanon.

I also think that acknowledging that something is head canon when talking about it, when you find it implied by the show but never actually spelled out, is useful and helpful when interacting with other people. Explaining your headcanon helps clarify the lens that you view the show through to someone else, and acknowledges that you're probably not bringing the same things to the canon or interpreting canon stuff the same way.

Headcanon, like fanon, can fit into the cracks that canon does not explore, can amplify things just barely touched on in canon, or can completely contradict canon but in ways that make more sense (at least to you).
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