Xander ,'First Date'
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risque (and frisque), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
I'm holding my breath because Owen has gone two whole nights without waking up. At. All. 10 hours straight. This is after four nights of letting him cry when he does wake up. He goes to bed at nine and if I make myself go to bed by 12, I get 7 hours of blissful sleep.
Quietly celebrating and hoping the trend continues in the long run.
Gud, sorry about the sick, glad it was a good weekend otherwise.
If it were a giant, hollow, concrete brain, I'd say make a mold out of silicone, in sections, with an insert that would keep it about 4-6 inches thick. To make the mold you'd likely have to make the brain out of paper mache (I'm not going to spell that right) first.
Timelies. I have physical therapy today. I don't wanna go. I never wanna go, but I'm always glad I went, so I'll go, but I don't wanna.
Client gave me a list of 633 clients for a merged document. He realized it was too long and some of his clients weren't active, so sent me a new one of 350. He realized after I sent him the 633 letters he wanted. Bleagh.
On the one hand, it's in an excel file, so I don't have to retype them all, I just have to clean them up and remerge. On the other hand, if it's anything like the 633 client file, there's a lot of clean-up. On the right foot, money! The left foot stands alone.
it was a pretty good weekend
Glad to hear it, Gud. May you have many more just like it.
Teacup Guy and I had a great evening together, and I am feeling much better today.
Glad to hear this, also.
G surprised me with tickets to Wicked for last night, and it was so good I want to hide in the back of the theater and see it over and over again.
Yay! I hope we'll get a full write-up in lj, Lilty.
Morning, Bitches! I'd like to leave work now. It's icky outside and I'd much rather be sitting on my couch with a blankie and my dog instead of at work with computers and stacks of paper.
I thought the same thing as ita. I saw enough clothing, signs, accessories (like Kaylee's parasol in the pilot) to get the idea that Chinese culture was predominant in this 'verse. Swearing in Chinese just fit with all that.
Agreed. I thought the Chinese stuff added some interesting elements too the show, and I like how certain things in ME shows are not overexplained to the audience as is common in much of prime time television. The writers seem to trust that the audience can figure it out on their own. Plus the use of the Chinese language is a creative way for the characters to swear and still get past the censors.That's how I looked at it, too. There are a lot of Chinese people in the world currently, yo. So I didn't think it odd that in the future, more Chinese would be incorporated into the cultures of non-Asians.
Also? I can't see any obvious French or German influence where I am, but the words are in my vocab.
Still? When something bugs, it bugs, even if it doesn't bug other people.
Like, does Elphaba really start out as good/wanting to be good?
Absolutely. In fact, I'd say that even though she 'chooses' to be wicked ("No Good Deed") she never really even pulls it off. All she wants are the damn shoes. There were lots of things that were surprises to me, even having read the book and listened to the cd. We had limited view seats in the dress circle, so G was upset at first, but on the plus side, it meant that we were almost even with Elphaba for the last verse of 'Defying Gravity'. Just thinking about it gives me chills and gets me weepy. I'm a tool.
I'll put together an lj entry later tonight with more details. Now, I have to pack.
Throws self on ground and cries.
Betsy, loads of cool and calm~ma to you, with a bonus side order of collected~ma, as well. I hope everything is okay.
Oh, it's good nervous, not bad nervous. Thanks.
Oh, I'm so glad it is good nervous.
calm & cool-ma for Betsy.
Also? I can't see any obvious French or German influence where I am, but the words are in my vocab.
Mmm...I think maybe my blind acceptance of a Blader Runnerish future made me not even think twice about the Asian influence in FF. I don't even question it. When I read William Gibson, he drops international tech names left and right (e.g. Zeiss lenses) which, although I don't know first hand, assume that they're the cream that has risen to the global technology top. I don't really question its use because it simply "is" for me, if the story is well written and the culture/tech stuff seemlessly incorporated.
Susan, I know you didn't have much luck with your church-based mom group but have you checked for the Seattle group of punkymoms? A friend of mine in Dallas is a member and she recommended them to me.
if the story is well written
This, of course, being the clincher, and I didn't think Firefly was well-written. Everything about it felt clunky and awkward to me, which is obviously a rather vast mileage variance from most of the rest of the board.