Dawn: Any luck? Willow: If you define luck as the absence of success--plenty.

'Touched'


Spike's Bitches 23: We've mastered the power of positive giving up.  

[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.


Scrappy - May 12, 2005 12:40:11 pm PDT #8867 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

vw-- how about "missed connections"?


Trudy Booth - May 12, 2005 12:41:01 pm PDT #8868 of 10001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart

Things are getting better, my wife is no longer mad at me.

t puts cometoyourdarnsenseswoman-ma back in box


vw bug - May 12, 2005 12:42:58 pm PDT #8869 of 10001
Mostly lurking...

vw-- how about "missed connections"?

I like that. That could work.

What about "Threads of Life"?


Glamcookie - May 12, 2005 12:52:03 pm PDT #8870 of 10001
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister

t bouncebouncebounce

I leave tomorrow morning to lay my pasty self on the beach for several days. Can't focus on work.

t bouncebouncebounce


brenda m - May 12, 2005 12:55:31 pm PDT #8871 of 10001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there

"I'm trying the Church of Satan this week. The services are messy, but, boy, do those guys know their Bible!"

Hearting Connie as usual.


Susan W. - May 12, 2005 1:01:06 pm PDT #8872 of 10001
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights

Suddenly we have a bee problem. At least, I think they're bees--they look sorta like yellow jackets but not exactly. Definitely not wasps. Also not bumblebees. Something black and yellow and buzzy.

While I was putting Annabel in the carseat on the way to my doctor's appointment today, Bee #1 gets in somehow and buzzes around the back seat. Eventually I managed to get it to leave, and I was proud of myself for not visibly showing symptoms of bee phobia in front of Annabel--I don't want her to be chicken about all the same things I am. But my initial bp measurement was 142/95. I told the nurse about the bee and suggested we recheck before I went home--by which time it'd dropped to 128/74.

Just a few minutes ago I was collecting my mail, and saw Bee #2, looking listless, in the mailbox as I pulled the stuff out. I beat it to death with a catalog, but am still a little freaked at the thought of the sting I would've gotten if I'd stuck my hand in the mailbox at just a slightly different angle.

We've lived in this house for going on six years. This is the first time I've ever noticed bees.


Nora Deirdre - May 12, 2005 1:03:28 pm PDT #8873 of 10001
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)

yellowjackets?

Good for you for not freaking out. I know I would have.


Fay - May 12, 2005 1:07:08 pm PDT #8874 of 10001
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.

Damn, Betsy. I managed to miss reading about your work sitch earlier - that's shitty. (And I know from shitty. My cat - well, last night involved more shit than I normally like to encounter as I'm trying to get to sleep.)

Gud, I hope things calm down for you at home, love.

fwiw, I think Threads of Life is using an overworn image. Missed Connections is fresher and more evocative. imho.


Steph L. - May 12, 2005 1:09:34 pm PDT #8875 of 10001
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe

vw, most of your pieces sound like they're about the hellish parts of life AND coming through them stronger, which is making me think of a title like "Baptism By Fire" (which is a bit melodramatic), or -- oh! I know it's stealing from a comic book, but "Phoenix Rising"!!!


Connie Neil - May 12, 2005 1:10:11 pm PDT #8876 of 10001
brillig

Hearting Connie as usual.

hee