Vietnamese visa (and along with it my passport) showed up today, and so did my corset. Which I had to dig through the trash to retrieve--I left work without it, and turned around to come back, and between those two events, the cleaning people had gone through and emptied the trash, and assumed that the box under my desk was EMPTY, and THROWN IT AWAY. I had to dig through the trashbags.
Meanwhile, I'm all wanting to look good in the corset, but the problem is I can barely get it on by myself--I certainly can't lace it well enough to make it look good! (Thought for right now--it looks OK, and does nice things for my waist, but I swear I didn't tell them I wanted it to come up that high over my boobs, and damn if it doesn't make me look entirely flat. ARGH)
Ah, meara you've been caught skipping Natter
Oh, David, honey, I gave up on keeping up with Natter about a year ago--I don't read b.org at work anymore, since I got the new job last February, so Bitches and Tech and Lit and such are all I can keep up with. So you're friends with She Of The Annoying Voice?? Damn. I want a sex scene with Gina Gershon! Or, with any one of a large number of the drag kings coming for our big show this weekend...
Just realizing that going into teaching probably means I'll never get that job where they demand that I fly all over the world and stay in hotels and order room service
Did I mention that one of the studies starting up after my current one is going to be in South America? I'm really hoping I get to work on that one. Though I admit, I never order room service--I have a certain amount I'm allowed to spend a day, and I'd rather get better food cheaper, and not pay their crazy prices.
Nora, I SO want to be your assistant! That would kick ass!
So you're friends with She Of The Annoying Voice??
I'm friends with the person dating her. And her voice is fine in person when she's not In Character. You notice her inflections (which are themselves distinct) more than her pitch.
Hi.
Sorry you didn't get the job, VW.
Ugh. I cannot really have another cold. It's only been a month. No fair.
t /poor me.
vw, that blows. I'm sorry.
Heh. Well, I'll take your word on the in-person-ness of the Voice. Though now I'm trying to picture you asking "So, I have this lesbian friend, and I promised her if she did her laundry, I'd ask you what it was like to have a sex scene with Gina Gershon...". Yeah....
(But I did do four and a half loads of laundry tonight! (One is still drying) Frighteningly, I could still stand to do a load or two (mostly sheets and towels, but still. Too many clothes!!)
Well, I'll take your word on the in-person-ness of the Voice.
I bow to meara on this...
"So, I have this lesbian friend, and I promised her if she did her laundry, I'd ask you what it was like to have a sex scene with Gina Gershon...".
Oh, she was pretty free with the inside information. I don't think it would be that hard to find out about Gina's kissability.
You know, so many of my environmental ethics have been compromised recently that I'll probably start using aerosols soon.
I bring this up because I was just out looking for the pregnant cat who lives here, as she's gonna burst any minute and I'm worried about her. I tried to round up all the cats back in November and have them fixed, but wasn't able to find a vet who would fix female kittens...and then the neighbor yelled at me anyway, as it's "not natural." So now there are going to be more ownerless cats (they aren't exactly feral) to get sick or injured and die.
But I know this cat's going to whelp soon - not only does she look like a snake that's eaten an elephant, but yesterday I was putting Mal into his car seat and chattering at him, and he responded "Mew." So I asked, "Baby?" and again he said, "Mew." I pulled my head out of the car and said "Cat?" and heard "Mew" from under the car. So I turned the garage lights on and kneeled down and Pregnant Cat came running out from under my car, jumped into my arms, and started purring like a fiend. I guess she'd gone into the garage looking for a place to have her kittens and gotten trapped; not sure how long she'd been there.
If she survives this birth I'm fixing her. We've 8 cats in the backyard anyway.
