Cashmere, in the meantime before you get your decaf tea there is a quick way to decaf regular tea. Pour just enough hot water over the teabag to cover it. Let it stand for one minute and pour off the water. About 80% of the the caffeine with be in that water. Then brew tea as you normally would. I am sorry for the tired; I hope it gets better soon.
Raise your hand if 'ew.'
Buffy ,'Same Time, Same Place'
Spike's Bitches 24: I'm Very Seldom Naughty.
[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.
sj - Jun 13, 2005 10:18:44 am PDT #4498 of 10001
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Pix - Jun 13, 2005 10:20:10 am PDT #4499 of 10001
The status is NOT quo.
Kristin, thanks! Awesome...It's a mostly Hispanic school, so I'm thinking about doing a Neruda poem; I have the Spanish original on one side, and the English translation on another. OTOH, I haven't taught that poem before, so I dunno.
This is an excellent, excellent plan. Just make sure it's one of the more accessible of Neruda's poems since you have limited time, and be sure to say up front that it's fine if they aren't fluent in both languages (so they don't think you've assumed that everyone in the class speaks Spanish). Don't worry about never having taught it before. Just do your homework and research the hell out of it (including your own close reading, of course) so that you feel really comfortable with it ahead of time. When I teach Neruda, I always ask if anyone who is bilingual can comment on the translation, and that usually provokes an interesting conversation about what is gained and lost when a piece of literature is moved to another language. You're going to rock--don't fret.
JZ - Jun 13, 2005 10:21:23 am PDT #4500 of 10001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Tep, I think she could have said:
Mean arterial pressures earlier in the day were 126-158/83-94, coming down overnight to systolics of 115-40 over diastolics ranging from 65-95 but generally below 80.
which conveys the same thing in 18 fewer words.
And every sentence is like that -- so much filler, so much junk, and it adds up to several hours' more strain on my hands every time this idjit is on service. I can edit it out, but then that's more time and effort spent on her and lost to all the other job duties that I now have that much less time to finish.
I'm a big ball of hateration.
Lee - Jun 13, 2005 10:24:23 am PDT #4501 of 10001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Question for people who have ordered online from Black Phoenix alchemy: How long does it usually take to get to you?
-t - Jun 13, 2005 10:24:36 am PDT #4502 of 10001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Dorry fo rthe hateful day, JZ. In my complete incomprehension, I find wordy-doc's phrasing strangely beautiful, but I don't have to type it. Or understand it.
I've had to do actual work today, and I'm about to go do some more. Craziness.
Atropa - Jun 13, 2005 10:30:13 am PDT #4503 of 10001
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Question for people who have ordered online from Black Phoenix alchemy: How long does it usually take to get to you?
6 to 8 weeks. On the BPAL forum, Brian the Shipping God posted on June 2nd that orders up to April 14th have been shipped: "However there are some orders as far back as 4-1 that are being held up by some certain oils and we will ship them out as soon as we are able."
Fred Pete - Jun 13, 2005 10:30:17 am PDT #4504 of 10001
Ann, that's a ferret.
Egad, JZ. Even breaking down DW's words into multiple sentences would be an improvement.
Lee - Jun 13, 2005 10:34:08 am PDT #4505 of 10001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
6 to 8 weeks. On the BPAL forum, Brian the Shipping God posted on June 2nd that orders up to April 14th have been shipped: "However there are some orders as far back as 4-1 that are being held up by some certain oils and we will ship them out as soon as we are able."
Cool. CCnet sent me something saying my order should have been shipped on May 31st, priority mail, which means it should have been here already, but I didn't know if the ship date was accurate, since it didn't come from BPAL itself
Steph L. - Jun 13, 2005 10:34:58 am PDT #4506 of 10001
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
which conveys the same thing in 18 fewer words.
Heh. It could just be that after 10 years (egad! 10 freaking years!) of editing stuff like that, it reads normally to me.
Question for people who have ordered online from Black Phoenix alchemy: How long does it usually take to get to you?
About as long as it took for Odysseus to make his way back to Penelope.
ChiKat - Jun 13, 2005 10:36:11 am PDT #4507 of 10001
That man was going to shank me. Over an omelette. Two eggs and a slice of government cheese. Is that what my life is worth?
Any day in retail is a success if you don't maim the customers.
Truer words were never spoken.
I've been in a wierd funk lately. I spent the weekend with a lovingly patient BF, but I really just wanted to hole up in my darkened apt. in my jammies with no one but my cat. I think it's a residual from seeing my dad last week. He had a couple of strokes last year and is doing...well, not that great, really. He looks 20 years older than he did just one year ago. It sucks watching a strong, independent man become a frail old man who can't be left alone.