and yes I know, I'm a big doofus
Big Doofuses Unite!
Yeah. He's my hero.
Mal ,'The Train Job'
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.
Amy - May 18, 2005 1:11:34 pm PDT #9917 of 10001
Because books.
Nora Deirdre - May 18, 2005 1:37:55 pm PDT #9918 of 10001
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)
yeah, I need to get Tom a cell phone so I can stop imagining horrible accidents on 128 and even if he's OK, he couldn't get in touch with me... I am a Doofus.
Glamcookie - May 18, 2005 1:44:55 pm PDT #9919 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
Bored now. At the Burbank airport with shitbaggy business people.
sj - May 18, 2005 2:00:18 pm PDT #9920 of 10001
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
yeah, I need to get Tom a cell phone so I can stop imagining horrible accidents on 128 and even if he's OK, he couldn't get in touch with me... I am a Doofus.
I really want Teacup Guy to get a cellphone. He has a meeting tonight, and then he is coming to my place. I have no idea when the meeting will end, and if it runs later than I expect I will likely become worried that he got into a car accident or something equally as horrible. Add me to the Doofus club.
Topic!Cindy - May 18, 2005 2:00:45 pm PDT #9921 of 10001
What is even happening?
I'm the President of the Big Doofus Club, not that there was any doubt.
sj - May 18, 2005 2:01:27 pm PDT #9922 of 10001
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
At least I know I am in very good company.
EpicTangent - May 18, 2005 2:03:33 pm PDT #9923 of 10001
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty
Does anybody else, on being told by someone that they don't watch TV, or don't have a TV in their house, go into an automatic defensive mode? (not even completely conscious I'm doing it a lot of the time). Just me?
§ ita § - May 18, 2005 2:05:39 pm PDT #9924 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
It really depends on the tone, for me. I know people (my sister used to be one of them) who felt it made them special, and it shows in the voice. Others just don't care about TV one way or another, or don't have the time, or are scared of the addiction.
As long as I'm not getting value judgment vibes, I don't bristle.
sj - May 18, 2005 2:05:56 pm PDT #9925 of 10001
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
I do that too, ET. Teacup Guy doesn't have a TV.
Katerina Bee - May 18, 2005 2:08:02 pm PDT #9926 of 10001
Herding cats for fun
Here’s another two cents worth on the pet issue. We didn’t cover this sort of coercive situation, so Ima make another post in the name of Buffistean completeness. Elizabeth Marshall Thomas, author of The Social Lives of Dogs, received “…many letters from women whose husbands or boyfriends didn’t like their dogs. In every case, the man wanted the woman to get rid of her dog. However, the woman loved the dog and was placed in a terrible dilemma, hence the letter. My advice on this question is always the same. Lose the man. Keep the dog. You are far better off with the dog than with a man who would ask such a thing of you.”
I am a crazy cat person and proud of it. I am eternally grateful that I fell in love with a man who loves the kitties as much as I do. We see our home as a safe habitat, and ourselves as having a sort of guardianship responsibility, because we want to be the sort of people who help make up for the terrible things that some people do. When I adopt a pet, I offer what I call a double-lifetime guarantee: I promise that I will love them for the rest of their life, as well as for the rest of mine. That’s nice and symmetrical.
Sometimes I think about What If I had had to make a Sophie’s Choice about them, well. It would be a terrible thing for me. When I am bewailing my hard lot in life, sometimes I think about JZ’s cats, and I see that fortune has truly favored me because I didn’t have to give anything up to have DH. I’m so happy to have finally discovered what became of them and that everybody is OK; I loved every word of her post about it.