I like the way the walls go out. Gives you an open feeling. Firefly is a good design. People don't appreciate the substance of things. Objects in space. People miss out on what's solid.

Early ,'Objects In Space'


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.


Volans - Aug 18, 2005 1:58:27 am PDT #9028 of 10002
move out and draw fire

Lily is so cute!!! And you reminded me that I really need to get my photos organized and split by age. *sigh* Add that to the list of projects.

Big project right now: a family friend will be staying with us in September for a few days. We only have bunkbeds for guests, and they are in the room with the catbox and assorted other junk. The guest is in his 80s, so I'm trying to get the bunk beds replaced with a queen-size bed, and find a new place for the catbox, my cello, and my art table.


Gus - Aug 18, 2005 2:03:34 am PDT #9029 of 10002
Bag the crypto. Say what is on your mind.

Just cruised recent Bitches, behind billytea's hints...

billytea is in lurve! That is so cool. Go, billytea!


Gus - Aug 18, 2005 2:09:43 am PDT #9030 of 10002
Bag the crypto. Say what is on your mind.

post toasties

The guest is in his 80's...

Dude! Put him in the upper bunk. He escaped the Great Depression with a whole soul. Sleeping arrangements will not significantly challenge him.


Gus - Aug 18, 2005 2:24:05 am PDT #9031 of 10002
Bag the crypto. Say what is on your mind.

Just cruised COMM. People who are funny in Greek and German are probably Buffistas.

Gawd help them, everywhere else.


billytea - Aug 18, 2005 2:46:29 am PDT #9032 of 10002
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.

Just cruised recent Bitches, behind billytea's hints...

Subtle as they were.

billytea is in lurve! That is so cool. Go, billytea!

It is! Well, lurve is premature. But I think I'm deeply in like.


Nilly - Aug 18, 2005 2:49:46 am PDT #9033 of 10002
Swouncing

Then you will have missed the news of the day: I seem to have been girlfriended.

Oh, lucky lucky girl. Also, um, since you chose her to girlfriend you, I'm willing to say "lucky billy!", too.

Now, of course, I want to wonder into Bitches and look for the details, as nosy as I am.

Gus, yesterday I dumped the load of pretty much my whole country on Natter. That's what invisible friends are for.

PMM. oh, she is still very cute. But I think you have to continue taking (and posting!) pictures of her, just so that we could continue checking on the cuteness, you know.

[Edit: 9+0=3*3]


Fay - Aug 18, 2005 2:59:11 am PDT #9034 of 10002
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.

Ah, Nilly, you should threadsuck. The ongoing reports from billytea's adventures in dating have been fabulous, but this latest lass sounds like a keeper.


Volans - Aug 18, 2005 3:02:38 am PDT #9035 of 10002
move out and draw fire

Dude! Put him in the upper bunk. He escaped the Great Depression with a whole soul. Sleeping arrangements will not significantly challenge him.

It's true. He's arriving here from Helsinki, and going from here to Bangkok. If they'd given us box springs to go with the bunkbed, I'd probably leave it.


Nilly - Aug 18, 2005 3:04:25 am PDT #9036 of 10002
Swouncing

Fay! How wonderful to finally post with you!

How are you doing? I uderstood there were some work problems - are things moving along better now?

(And thanks, I'll try to threadsuck and look. I love the billytea way of describing billytea adventures, so I think it's pretty safe to assume I'll enjoy this one, as well.)

[Edit: and now, 9+0=3+6. Will there be a "third time ice cream" for these multiplications of 3 post #? All I can do is post and see.]


Fay - Aug 18, 2005 3:10:53 am PDT #9037 of 10002
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.

Hey there! Well, the work thing has been quite interesting. Long story short: my former boss pulled a load of crap on me (and my flatmate) when he discovered we were planning to work for another school in Cairo after completing our contracts with him. He said we weren't allowed to, we pointed out that the contract he gave us didn't prevent us from doing that, he said we'd got the wrong contract, we said it was the one he'd given us, he pointed out that he'd never signed it so nyah nyah nyah nyan. Things could have got really nasty, but they didn't, so much. Flatmate and I lost out on a month's salary, but otherwise everything was hunky dory.

Now, however, our new employers have informed us that the new school we're moving to isn't going to open until September 2006. Surprise! But they've offered her a teaching job at a sister school in Cairo, and me a non-teaching job preparing for the opening of the school. So we get to go back to Cairo, we get the income and benefits we were promised, but we don't get to (a) work together or (b) teach the UK curriculum for which we've been trained.

I'm a bit gutted, but I do appreciate that I'm still going to be employed, and still going to be getting the benefits and salary I was promised.

t /mememe

How's things going with you? It's all happening right now, what with this Gaza pullout business - what's the general feeling at home, would you say? Pro? Con? Ambivalent? I'll be interested to hear how my Egyptian friends feel about it all when I get back. I think it seems like a very positive thing, but I probably don't know enough about the whole situation.