What region, brenda, do you know?
No, it's shiny! I like to meet new people. They've all got stories...
Kaylee ,'Serenity'
Natter 37: Oddly Enough, We've Had This Conversation Before.
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.
Topic!Cindy - Jul 19, 2005 11:54:37 am PDT #1259 of 10002
What is even happening?
askye - Jul 19, 2005 11:56:53 am PDT #1260 of 10002
Thrive to spite them
I have a question for people with Caller ID.
When you see an unfamiliat number on ID (and no message was left) OR someone calls and immediately hangs up, what do you do?
Do you call the number back to see who called? Or ignore it? Or what?
Today and yesterday I had a couple people call and want to know who called or why the person hung up and didn't seem very pleased to be told that it was probably a wrong number (one of the lines that rings up here is a general line that almost anyone can use).
I don't understand why people call unfamiliar numbers and then get upset to find out it's a wrong number.
sarameg - Jul 19, 2005 11:58:11 am PDT #1261 of 10002
brenda m - Jul 19, 2005 11:58:29 am PDT #1262 of 10002
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Naples, Cindy.
§ ita § - Jul 19, 2005 11:59:26 am PDT #1263 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Allyson, if you believe that your writing is like Olen's or Ayelet Waldman's, there's not much I can do to comfort you. However, nothing of yours I've read is similar.
It's not like I'm bitching about everything autobiographical.
sarameg - Jul 19, 2005 11:59:50 am PDT #1264 of 10002
Post is not the Message Center Button. Who knew!?
-t - Jul 19, 2005 12:00:28 pm PDT #1265 of 10002
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
People are strange, askye. Maybe someone is suspicious of his or her spouse.
Dana, I'm pondering the dining options. I'll e-mail as we approach the date. This'll be my first vacation that doesn't involve going to someone's wedding or visting family since my honeymoon. I'm excited.
sarameg - Jul 19, 2005 12:02:24 pm PDT #1266 of 10002
I haven't read your stuff yet (yet!) Allyson, but from the descriptions I've seen? Those words weren't aimed at your kind of work. Not even in the same vicinity.
Allyson - Jul 19, 2005 12:04:19 pm PDT #1267 of 10002
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
nothing of yours I've read is similar.
We're in the same family, I think. Arrogant and bitching about the inane.
I think the major difference between them and me is a level of such staggering self-involvement that they're completely blind to the consequences of what they write, or to feel any sort of empathy for their subjects. But the bones of it are the same.
Cashmere - Jul 19, 2005 12:06:54 pm PDT #1268 of 10002
Now tagless for your comfort.
Do you call the number back to see who called? Or ignore it? Or what?
Sometimes I ignore it. Sometimes I pick up and answer. But usually I don't bother.
I love my caller i.d.