We're in love. We're ... lovers. We're lesbian, gay-type lovers.

Willow ,'Potential'


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.


Jesse - May 11, 2005 5:28:38 pm PDT #3491 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I have to say, my mom gave me the best high school graduation present ever -- she collected advice from a ton of people, including current college students, about leaving home/living with roommates/being in college. I think she asked people I was close to, but also people she knew would be funny. She compiled it all, and got a calligrapher friend to make the cover, but you could just do it on a computer. That was a fabulous present. A pain in the ass to do, but not a lot of money.

Some favorite bits: If you don't have enough money for drinks and dinner, get a bloody mary. The drink + celery + bar nuts is practically a meal! Also, second hand from someone's dad: Tell your date you only drink Chivas, and you won't get drunk and taken advantage of. You won't like the taste, and he won't want to pay for much of it!


sarameg - May 11, 2005 5:34:13 pm PDT #3492 of 10001

That reminds me: my brother is a poor grad student with a family (though well paid for a grad student.) He's found a good way to get free lunches. Seminars. Being a MAJOR Neurosciences university, it gets the supercatered type seminars nearly daily. He only hesitates when he enters the hall and everyone is wearing doctor's coats. Otherwise, he doesn't hesitate to fake it.

Sometimes, he even finds it relevent to his work (some alzheimers, but now I think he's more towards cancer.)

And yes, he sneaks leftoevers out.


Jesse - May 11, 2005 5:36:04 pm PDT #3493 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

This is the problem with my school: we have brown bag seminars. Hmph.


Gudanov - May 11, 2005 5:36:15 pm PDT #3494 of 10001
Coding and Sleeping

Sorry, Gud, we did kind of geek out on you there didn't we.

Don't be sorry, I didn't mean to sound like it was a problem. I had fun meeting you guys. Nothing wrong with a little theater talk, it's just I don't have much to contribute unless I start making things up.


sarameg - May 11, 2005 5:43:00 pm PDT #3495 of 10001

It's all about the funding. UAB gets so much that when they accept a grad student in this program, the tuition is covered and the student gets a $20+K stipend. It's a sweet deal. And the only way my brother could do it.

OK, I'm watching what seems to be a SuperNanny reunion special. Why? I don't know. But I'm unnerved. I guess I had good parents (who were educators) and all my babysitting and nannying experience informs me, but so freaking much seems like Duh! Of course, I'm not a parent. But jeez, the behavior that is tolerated! And the fact that some of these parents seem so adrift and passive. Oy. It seems common sense to me. t /judgy


Allyson - May 11, 2005 5:45:35 pm PDT #3496 of 10001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica

And the gay people put up with this?

Okay. So this is a weird thing that used to happen to me all the time in college. A huge pool of my friends were gay men. A lot of them expressed desire to have sex with me, or make out with me.

"Allyson, you're just so pretty. I would sleep with you, if you wanted me to. Do you want to?"

What the fuck was that all about? I sort of made up my mind that because it was early in the college years, and they were just coming out of the closet, the dudes I knew were just unsure of how to express affection without it being sexual in nature. But i could be wrong, often am.


quester - May 11, 2005 5:54:48 pm PDT #3497 of 10001
Danger is my middle name, only I spell it R. u. t. h. - Tina Belcher.

I don't have much to contribute unless I start making things up.

That would work.

I'm watching something on PBS about the movie The Misfits.


JenP - May 11, 2005 5:57:40 pm PDT #3498 of 10001

Huh. I just watched a commercial for Maxwell House coffee. A company of firefighters filking "Our House." I'm amused and a little weirded out. Something about music that takes me to freshman year in college makes me go, "Huh," when I hear it in a commercial. Like, a couple of years ago, "Forever Young," by Alphaville was used for a car commercial. (I wish I still had a copy of that album)

t /random


sarameg - May 11, 2005 6:02:12 pm PDT #3499 of 10001

Oh great. Triple shooting in West B'more. Where am I touring real estate on Sat? West B'more.

I like my city, I really do. It is just such a patchwork. Million dollar properties a block away from crack hell.


beth b - May 11, 2005 6:12:36 pm PDT #3500 of 10001
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!

it's just I don't have much to contribute unless I start making things up.
I do that every so often when matt and his friends are talking about guitars