Oh, yeah. Good one, Nicole!
Well, it's just good to know that when the chips are down and things look grim you'll feed off the girl who loves you to save your own ass!
Xander ,'Chosen'
The Great Write Way, Chapter Two: Twice upon a time...
A place for Buffistas to discuss, beta and otherwise deal and dish on their non-fan fiction projects.
SailAweigh - Apr 14, 2006 5:03:52 pm PDT #6150 of 10001
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
deborah grabien - Apr 14, 2006 5:26:13 pm PDT #6151 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
Are you posting that up in the LJ community? I need to point Roz Kaveney at it.
Nicole - Apr 14, 2006 5:46:21 pm PDT #6152 of 10001
I'm getting the pig!
Thanks, Sail!
It's posted over there, Deb.
Lee - Apr 14, 2006 5:54:42 pm PDT #6153 of 10001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Very nice, Nicole. Juliana and Ailleann too.
deborah grabien - Apr 14, 2006 5:59:41 pm PDT #6154 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
I just sent Roz the link to that. I suspect it may be right up her alley.
Back to work. Have written about 950 words on this bit. I keep telling myself: star bubbles. angel's breath. star bubbles....
Being reeeeeeeeally frickin' careful.
Allyson - Apr 14, 2006 8:31:13 pm PDT #6155 of 10001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
Lee - Apr 14, 2006 8:40:19 pm PDT #6156 of 10001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Very cool, Allyson.
deborah grabien - Apr 14, 2006 8:54:44 pm PDT #6157 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
Whoooooeeeee! I'm in serious company, there.
Throw a virtual smooch Tim-wards for me, will you? I don't know the man at all, but I know a wonderful quote when I see it.
Fury's and Brendan's are excellent, but Tim's just nails it.
edit: actually, make that a virtual salute, tip of the hat thing. I am woefully unsmoochy by nature.
Connie Neil - Apr 14, 2006 8:55:15 pm PDT #6158 of 10001
brillig
Recognizing myself
The sad fact was, when I was in high school, girls' brains weren't supposed to be able to handle math and science. When I coasted through the classes, I assumed it was because the subject wasn't that involved. I thought the praise from my geometry teacher was politeness. I didn't even make the connection when I was the only girl in the special invitation-only applied mathematics course my senior year. All I saw were the Bs and Cs--shameful things--in algebra; the As in geometry and applied trig only proved those subjects were somehow not so hard.
In college, people had been known to change majors to avoid the required statistics course. People prayed merely to pass; As were nearly mythical.
I kept waiting for it to get hard. I squeaked through with an A. In the midst of planning my gloat to my boyfriend about how I got an A too, I heard the professor say, "You're good at this."
The mental walls splintered. I was smart. More, I was smarter than a lot of the people around me. It wasn't that applied mathematics was easier than other things, the truth was I would have been smart enough to do the science courses I'd thought of taking over the years.
But graduation was less than a month away. Time to enter the world and make a living, not to turn around and try to recreate myself. Still, I had a clearer mirror to hold up for myself now. It was liberating, to whisper to myself, "I'm smart."
Liese S. - Apr 14, 2006 9:18:18 pm PDT #6159 of 10001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Way cool blurbs, Allyson!