No studying? Damn! Next thing they'll tell me is I'll have to eat jelly doughnuts or sleep with a supermodel to get things done around here. I ask you, how much can one man give?

Xander ,'Conversations with Dead People'


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.


Jen - Jun 24, 2005 6:13:24 pm PDT #6800 of 10001
love's a dream you enter though I shake and shake and shake you

Well, yeah, but that feels rude to me. They've gone to the trouble to get in touch, the least I can do is write back.

I'm with you on this. Being on the receiving end of a resounding silence rather than a quick "thanks but no thanks" message makes one feel both invisible and unworthy of a few keystrokes.

Hypothetically, I mean. I've got this friend...


Deena - Jun 24, 2005 6:17:21 pm PDT #6801 of 10001
How are you me? You need to stop that. Only I can be me. ~Kara

How about something like: Thanks for writing. I've looked at your profile and I don't think we have many interests in common, but I'm really flattered by your e-mail. Maybe this online dating thing has something to it after all.

That way you're saying they've boosted your ego but you don't ask them for a date, and it's all light? I could be crazy.


WindSparrow - Jun 24, 2005 6:17:42 pm PDT #6802 of 10001
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.

Tomorrow, hot fudge! It's a little late to go looking for it now.

Malley's doesn't stay open later on the weekends? Oh wait, there's the whole parenting thing. I spose dragging the kids out for ice cream at 11pm wouldn't really be the thing to do.


Polter-Cow - Jun 24, 2005 6:18:10 pm PDT #6803 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

Jen, I would just like to say again that you're very cool for sending me the Lorrie Moore Ploughshares. I haven't read any of the stories in it yet, but I finally read her intro the other day, and then saw the Post-It in the front and was reminded that people are awesome.


SailAweigh - Jun 24, 2005 6:24:01 pm PDT #6804 of 10001
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb

{{Deena}} That sounds like it was just horribly scary. I'm glad you were strong in the clinch, but still....ugh. Not a fun thing to go through.

And more {{}} for thems as needs them because it sounds like today was a bit of the yuck for everyone. If I didn't know better, I'd think you were all having the craxy 95 degree weather that we are. It's only June! for cry-y-y. This is Wisconsin, we're not supposed to get this crap until the end of July or August. It's enough to make me want to move to Alaska.


billytea - Jun 24, 2005 6:24:11 pm PDT #6805 of 10001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.

How about something like: Thanks for writing. I've looked at your profile and I don't think we have many interests in common, but I'm really flattered by your e-mail. Maybe this online dating thing has something to it after all.

I like that, I think that sort of thing would work nicely. Thanks Deena.


Jen - Jun 24, 2005 6:29:59 pm PDT #6806 of 10001
love's a dream you enter though I shake and shake and shake you

Aww, P-C, you just made me smile. Not an easy thing to do today--I've been in a crap mood all day.


Polter-Cow - Jun 24, 2005 6:34:20 pm PDT #6807 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

It is my raison d'etre.

I forget where all the damn accents go.


Deena - Jun 24, 2005 6:43:15 pm PDT #6808 of 10001
How are you me? You need to stop that. Only I can be me. ~Kara

YAY! BT, you just made my day.

I spose dragging the kids out for ice cream at 11pm wouldn't really be the thing to do.

Well, no, not with the bruising and the crying and the fact that they're already asleep. I don't want the cops called--frankly, right now their legs look like I beat them with steel rods or something.


Ginger - Jun 24, 2005 7:50:44 pm PDT #6809 of 10001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda

I just skimmed because of my houseguest but ack! Deena! Aidan seems to have taken that "up, up and away" thing a little too literally. On the other hand, I think it would be really cute to hear Aidan say "up, up and away." Does he have a cape? Is there a way to padlock an oven door?

And of course Kara's a prodigy.

vw, life continues to be one damn thing after another, but it really does get easier to cope with one damn thing after another. Just think how well you're doing and how many people are proud of you.

Happy anniversary and happy bean, Cashmere!