Confessions of a New Coffee Drinker. Oh dear God above, how I love McSweeney's.
To commemorate a past event, you kill and eat an animal. It's a ritual sacrifice, with pie.
Anya ,'Sleeper'
Natter 31 But Looks 29
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
JZ - Jan 14, 2005 8:02:41 am PST #6003 of 10002
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Lee - Jan 14, 2005 8:08:45 am PST #6004 of 10002
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
This was the thought of the day in our e-newsletter:
“A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.” ~ Martin Luther King, Jr. ~
I love it when people go subversive around here. It makes for much more interesting days.
§ ita § - Jan 14, 2005 8:36:52 am PST #6005 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I went to the trouble of begging off not just this conference call, but the entire project. Yet ... I sit here eavesdropping on the two cubes near me participating in it, and feeding the guy closest to me instant messages to help them along.
I swear I'm paying more attention to it than I'd be if I were actually dialed in.
Betsy HP - Jan 14, 2005 8:46:00 am PST #6006 of 10002
If I only had a brain...
If you're a lefty and like the climate, you'll adore Corvallis. Exquisite little college town with all the amenities: independent comics shops, used bookstore, farmer's market. If my employer hadn't been wildly unstable, I'd have considered moving there myself.
DavidS - Jan 14, 2005 8:47:24 am PST #6007 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
If you're a lefty and like the climate, you'll adore Corvallis. Exquisite little college town with all the amenities: independent comics shops, used bookstore, farmer's market. If my employer hadn't been wildly unstable, I'd have considered moving there myself.
Also? Where I was born.
Tom Scola - Jan 14, 2005 8:50:22 am PST #6008 of 10002
hwæt
"I took nature's most perfect killing machine, and needlessly turned it into a robot." -- Sealab 2021
amych - Jan 14, 2005 8:58:27 am PST #6009 of 10002
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
If you're a lefty
It took me a minute to figure out what handedness could possibly have to do with it. I need sleep.
msbelle - Jan 14, 2005 9:09:47 am PST #6010 of 10002
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
today is yicky and gross. wet and cold and yugh.
I spent most of the morning in a file room and only got about half the info that I wanted.
shrift - Jan 14, 2005 9:16:25 am PST #6011 of 10002
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
The sun is shining, but we're in the deep freeze now. I'm utterly kerslammed with work once again. I have to go wedding dress shopping tomorrow.
But hey, Dana's coming home from London this weekend!
DXMachina - Jan 14, 2005 9:17:32 am PST #6012 of 10002
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
I have to go wedding dress shopping tomorrow.
You're getting married? Or just looking for bargains?