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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.


Cass - Jul 27, 2005 2:37:59 pm PDT #3489 of 10002
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.

I pitched an additional Web site to a client (my first!) and was all happy when the PO came in.

Now I am staring at code and wondering what the hell I thought was such a good idea.

I took a call from him just now and I think I got us even more work. Wha??

It's like flirting with someone at a bar. It seems like a such a good idea and you're having a drink. There might be sparks. It might be the drinks though. Then suddenly you are looking at them and wondering how to leave.


erikaj - Jul 27, 2005 2:40:01 pm PDT #3490 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!

Yeah...I still follow stuff about her. Both she and Marlee Matlin are married to police officers...I thought that was interesting.


Jesse - Jul 27, 2005 2:40:20 pm PDT #3491 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

JJL would be great playing you, erika.

I totally hear you all with the "why did I just get myself more work??" because I did it recently, too. Luckily, they wanted me for the whole day, but I have an appt at 11, so I can sleep in, work part of Friday, and some Sunday, and be good to go.


Cass - Jul 27, 2005 2:40:42 pm PDT #3492 of 10002
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.

I think I had a point when I started typing that post. Now I think I just want to be in a cool air-conditioned bar.


Jesse - Jul 27, 2005 2:41:09 pm PDT #3493 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Of course, I told myself if I got freelance work this month, I'd buy new glasses, but I just got an email from my favorite store about their summer stuff being on sale, and I WANT IT.


Tom Scola - Jul 27, 2005 2:41:18 pm PDT #3494 of 10002
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

Worst pain: Getting my cystic acne injected.


erikaj - Jul 27, 2005 2:43:48 pm PDT #3495 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!

Worst pain: Mostly digestive, I gotta say. Apart from something emotional.


Cass - Jul 27, 2005 2:46:59 pm PDT #3496 of 10002
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.

Mostly digestive, I gotta say.
IBS. Turns out I don't like Demerol though. Made me paranoid.

I should really stop pretending to work today. I just built a graphic for this Web site. Hi-res vector. D'oh. Rastering the motha now. [Translation: I wrote something! In Portugeuse. For the Elbownians. D'oh! Dilberting the pretty words now.]


bon bon - Jul 27, 2005 2:57:20 pm PDT #3497 of 10002
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.

Car accident featuring: fractured coccyx while laying on a back board (I was literally sitting in the hospital moaning, "my ass! my ass!" because I was pretty out of it) and no pain meds for the first few days since I had liver lacerations.


DavidS - Jul 27, 2005 3:00:38 pm PDT #3498 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

The cauterizing of the nostril - this would be to prevent or stop too much bleeding?

That is correct.

I've never heard of cauterizing a nostril before. And it sounds awful.

It is indeed awful. And being a well-read 10 y.o. I knew what cauterizing meant, though I presumed that it would involve local anesthetics and maybe some electrical device. Not the doctor having the nurse hold my arms down, while he dipped a q-tip in a big jar of highly caustic chemical and then stick it up my nose. And then...while I was trembling with pain and rage...he did it to my other nostil. It was between the two that I had to Not!Punch him with great effort.

There was some screaming at my Mom later, and feelings of Betrayal and Mistrust of the Medical People.