Tom, you totally can do it. Think how far you already have come. Robin and ita are both right on in my experience (at least about this piece). The learning how part is usually so uncomfortable, but worthwhile.
You want to meet the real me now?
Mal ,'War Stories'
What Happens in Natter 35 Stays in Natter 35
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.
Kat - May 05, 2005 12:16:00 pm PDT #1670 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Scrappy - May 05, 2005 12:19:17 pm PDT #1671 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
ROBIN!!! YOU MADE THE MAMA CRY!!!
I never meant to, uh....
slinks off in shame
Burrell - May 05, 2005 12:19:32 pm PDT #1672 of 10001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
Okay, mama is off to take care of the baby, who just woke from his nap. Hungry, I presume.
eta: don't worry, Robin, twern't you.
sumi - May 05, 2005 12:20:15 pm PDT #1673 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
Mr. Broom - May 05, 2005 12:20:30 pm PDT #1674 of 10001
"When I look at people that I would like to feel have been a mentor or an inspiring kind of archetype of what I'd love to see my career eventually be mentioned as a footnote for in the same paragraph, it would be, like, Bowie." ~Trent Reznor
Re: "Louie, Louie," good ol' Snopes has exhaustive info on just how wrongfooted the whole thing is. Rumor was actually started by kids to aggravate old people:
Back in 1963, everybody who knew anything about rock 'n' roll knew that the Kingsmen's "Louie Louie" concealed dirty words that could be unveiled only by playing the 45 rpm single at 33-1/3. This preposterous fable bore no scrutiny even at the time, but kids used to pretend it did, in order to panic parents, teachers, and other authority figures. Eventually those ultimate authoritarians, the FBI got involved, conducting a thirty-month investigation that led to "Louie"'s undying — indeed, unkillable — reputation as a dirty song.
EDIT: Funny thing is, the FBI actually spent two years investigating the possibility that the lyrics were actually smutty--great priorities, J. Edgar.
Kat - May 05, 2005 12:20:37 pm PDT #1675 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Hey Burrell, I just got your message from earlier. My phone is totally jacked!
Burrell - May 05, 2005 12:21:56 pm PDT #1676 of 10001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
Your phone and mine, Kat. It's amazing we can communicate at all. Anyway, I'm home, but my hands will be full for, oh, 1/2 an hour or so.
msbelle - May 05, 2005 12:24:47 pm PDT #1677 of 10001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
Burrell needs a headset.
Connie Neil - May 05, 2005 12:30:34 pm PDT #1678 of 10001
brillig
Sara, obviously your cat has hacked into your company's network in a ploy to avoid getting medicated.
Ah, but *what* has the cat hacked into the network? t tech pulls out hairball, looks very worried
P.M. Marc - May 05, 2005 12:43:30 pm PDT #1679 of 10001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Tom, you can totally do this. Not gonna say it'll be easy, because I really don't think it will, but you can do it never the less.
As in, "I have to get up in the middle of the fucking night to test the new blahblah before it goes live. But at least there's a low likelihood that I'll receive an episiotomy in the process."
Hmm. I may adopt this for things like late night feedings and Spit Up Disasters (to bring it ALL back to curdled milk).
However, I've gotta say that in some ways, having natural tears stitched up beats attempting to feed someone at 3am, being as the former was a one-time thing rather than a nightly issue.