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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.


vw bug - Feb 24, 2005 4:13:29 am PST #720 of 10002
Mostly lurking...

Nilly, we could never ignore you. Sorry.


Hil R. - Feb 24, 2005 4:15:42 am PST #721 of 10002
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

I went to the ATM, where I found out that I actually had about $200 more in my account than I'd thought. So that was nice. I'd thought I had only about $30 until I got paid. So I now have coffee, and enough cash to buy lunch if I don't feel like going home in the middle of the day to eat.

vw, I definitely want to read that paper once you've got it online. It sounds really interesting.


Nutty - Feb 24, 2005 4:23:01 am PST #722 of 10002
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."

P.S. VW, I am in on that thing on Sunday. Despite my not replying to emails. I am bad at that, as Somervillains have cause to know.

I got Dunkies coffee this morning (8am meeting, and also I have no cream in my house), and it is acrid and icky. I don't know if it is just me, or the fact I asked for milk instead of cream, or if the coffee batch was bad, but it is not the Dunkies goodness I was craving.

8am meeting! Bleah. And it was over in 15 minutes, too, but 8am was the only time my co-meeters could meet (over the phone).


vw bug - Feb 24, 2005 4:24:39 am PST #723 of 10002
Mostly lurking...

P.S. VW, I am in on that thing on Sunday. Despite my not replying to emails. I am bad at that, as Somervillains have cause to know.

I half suspected that you might be able to make it. I haven't heard from Theo either. Theo, you gonna be able to make it?

It's gonna be a good group. I'm REALLY excited. I may even invite my friend J. I think she might enjoy it.


§ ita § - Feb 24, 2005 4:25:05 am PST #724 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I'm watching Vin Diesel on Leno right now.

What I completely don't get is the lummox thing. It's a perfectly well-spoken interview. People are weird.


Jesse - Feb 24, 2005 4:35:57 am PST #725 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Ack, Laura, what a situation. Poor son!

Um, Nutty, a phone meeting? You couldn't have done it from home? Just a thought....

I feel very fancy that I keep getting overnight packages for work. I'm also glad I woke up early, so I was awake, if wet and naked, when the UPS guy came.


Scrappy - Feb 24, 2005 4:39:26 am PST #726 of 10002
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

Awake, wet and naked--isn't that like a UPS guy's DREAM?


Jesse - Feb 24, 2005 4:41:43 am PST #727 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Yeah, I don't know why he didn't come in. Possibly the terrycloth robe/towel on head look was not quite as alluring as one might have hoped.


Nutty - Feb 24, 2005 4:43:34 am PST #728 of 10002
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."

Phone meeting was a conference call, and long-distance. I don't do either of those things on my home phone bill (and anyway, don't think I can do the conference thingie).

What I completely don't get is the lummox thing. It's a perfectly well-spoken interview.

Sometimes it takes in-depth conversation to suss out a true level of speaking ability. I can name you a couple of local celebrities who talk all the time, and are quite quotable, and whom most people would call articulate; but in in-depth interview they may repeat phrases and fumble with sentence-fragments, clearly intent on transmitting an idea, but unable to communicate except in sound-bite. I'm sure the opposite is true as well.


Jesse - Feb 24, 2005 4:45:23 am PST #729 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Phone meeting was a conference call, and long-distance. I don't do either of those things on my home phone bill (and anyway, don't think I can do the conference thingie).

Ah, a little more ad-hoc than I was thinking -- not the kind of conference call where everyone gets an 800 number to call in on.