OMG that sit-up picture is so cute!
Hey, man, where are my pants? I have my hippo dignity!
Oz ,'Bring On The Night'
Natter 32 Flavors and Then Some
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.
Laura - Feb 11, 2005 2:09:37 pm PST #6585 of 10002
Our wings are not tired.
Hil R. - Feb 11, 2005 2:15:33 pm PST #6586 of 10002
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Interesting discussion. Since my salary is publically available, and everyone's probably got some idea of what grad students are making anyway: $1,943 a month, nine months a year. My rent is a bit more than half that. No debt, unless you count the $100 or so that I'm usually carrying over on my credit card. I'm also making about $100 a month from tutoring when I can (there hasn't been much lately, but midterms will be coming up in a few weeks and I'll be able to get a bunch then), and my parents give me $200 a month, and sometimes another $40 or so from babysitting. Plus grading high school math competitions, which usually works out to about $400, two or three times a year.
Betsy HP - Feb 11, 2005 2:18:12 pm PST #6587 of 10002
If I only had a brain...
Yeah, I understand. What I meant is that my experience has been, you don't get any routine raises or COLAs at all; you maybe get a promotion after a few years, or you maybe quit and find another job -- so the lifelong trend is up, but it's nothing nice and predictable like annual increases.
You're right. I think my brain is stuck back in the 1980s. It used to be like that. Really. At least for me.
Scrappy - Feb 11, 2005 2:34:05 pm PST #6588 of 10002
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Kinda hard to type with my NEW DOG sprawled out halfway on my lap. She's awfully awfully sweet. So far I have observed: Dogs are like cats except they like you all the time.
lori - Feb 11, 2005 2:36:25 pm PST #6589 of 10002
Yay DOG!
So far I have observed: Dogs are like cats except they like you all the time.
Yes!
amych - Feb 11, 2005 2:36:27 pm PST #6590 of 10002
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Dogs are like cats except they like you all the time.
You must have barky cats.
Also, AWWWWWW!!
DavidS - Feb 11, 2005 2:37:18 pm PST #6591 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
So far I have observed: Dogs are like cats except they like you all the time.
Yeah. Go, dog, go.
Scrappy - Feb 11, 2005 2:39:16 pm PST #6592 of 10002
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
We haven't heard this dog bark at all yet. She whines a little when distressed, but not big on barking, even though she has seen other dogs, a squirrel, our two cats, and a stranger (Kat, who was the first to meet her! Yay!) at the door. The foster carers said she only barks when she's playing outside.
JZ - Feb 11, 2005 2:39:19 pm PST #6593 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.
You must have barky cats.
Or part Siamese. They are very chatty and gossipy and never shut up.
§ ita § - Feb 11, 2005 2:39:59 pm PST #6594 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Eva Mendes isn't pretty.
Lotus Notes isn't good.
Dogs? Pretty cool.