Yes, it's terribly simple. The good guys are always stalwart and true, the bad guys are easily distinguished by their pointy horns or black hats, and, uh, we always defeat them and save the day. No one ever dies, and everybody lives happily ever after.

Giles ,'Conversations with Dead People'


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 18, 2005 5:15:16 pm PDT #953 of 10002
What is even happening?

Sure. I read all that too. But still, she's an idiot for sending her employer the link to her blog.

Oh, yes. I was just thrilled by my google luck.


amych - Jul 18, 2005 5:16:38 pm PDT #954 of 10002
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

No set of boundaries is tight enough to allow for Tucker Carlson fantasies, be they justified by grad-school wannabe bullshit or not.


Topic!Cindy - Jul 18, 2005 5:17:31 pm PDT #955 of 10002
What is even happening?

Jesse, if you don't have any Benadryl cream, you can take Benadryl, and/or put Cortisone cream on the bites. If you don't have Cortisone, toothpaste takes the itch out sometimes, too.


Kat - Jul 18, 2005 5:17:34 pm PDT #956 of 10002
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

Okay, banging the Nanny. Yes, cliché.

But, Rio, lived with Ewan (and Angelina Jolie's ex husband). Think of the slash possibilities.


Jesse - Jul 18, 2005 5:25:26 pm PDT #957 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Jude Law is tacky, I'm afraid. Luckily I don't know him in real life.

Thanks, y'all! And miracle of miracles, I even have two Benadryl tablets. That plus two tylenol flu tablets and some leftover prescription cough medicine are the extent of my medicine collection.


JenP - Jul 18, 2005 5:26:01 pm PDT #958 of 10002

Ow. I don't understand how that woman could read her nanny's blog obsessively, because the white text on black screen is painful. I'm seeing a ghost image of it on our lovely background as I type this. Ow.


Sue - Jul 18, 2005 5:29:29 pm PDT #959 of 10002
hip deep in pie

Ii htought you were going to say that's what you took tonight, Jesse! You would have slept for a week straight!

Does ita know there's swimming going on in Montreal while she's there? [link]


Kat - Jul 18, 2005 5:33:17 pm PDT #960 of 10002
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

mmm... water polo.

Yesterday there was a guy who looked vaguely like a straight haired, buffed water polo version of Naveen Andrews at the pool. He was doing some playing around and drill like things with a water polo ball.

Sadly, he was not there today.


§ ita § - Jul 18, 2005 5:34:16 pm PDT #961 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Croatian swimmers? Score!

I read a bunch of stuff on Nannygate, and the wife is an ass. The nanny wasn't bright, but the wife is one hell of an ass.


Jesse - Jul 18, 2005 5:36:09 pm PDT #962 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Ii htought you were going to say that's what you took tonight, Jesse! You would have slept for a week straight!

Har. No. It's a miracle I even had the Benadryl -- I have no idea when or why I bought it.

The nanny makes me roll my eyes here:

In fact during my 5 month employ at Ms. Olen's, I spent two and a half months celibate. Yep. Celibate.

Two and a half months with no sex!?!?!?!?!? THE HORROR!!! @@

Oh, which reminds me -- I told my parents about the eyeroll emoticon. They liked it.