Ya know, if you puff it up enough, maybe you can get a job at FEMA.
Except that I don't meet the other qualification for a FEMA job: A big, fat check to the GOP.
Jayne: Well... I don't like the idea of someone hearin' what I'm thinkin'. Inara: No one likes the idea of hearing what you're thinking.
'Objects In Space'
Natter .38 Special
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.
dw - Sep 10, 2005 12:56:56 pm PDT #6217 of 10002
Silence means security silence means approval
aurelia - Sep 10, 2005 12:57:09 pm PDT #6218 of 10002
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
I had one college paper that started with a quote from Antigone followed by this quote from Bloom County:
Foreshadowing - a literary technique, not entirely uncommon around here.
—Oliver Wendall Jones
dw - Sep 10, 2005 1:00:13 pm PDT #6219 of 10002
Silence means security silence means approval
And that led me to remember the time I got punny with my freshman lit class in college, and titled a paper on a Wordsworth poem about the River Wye "Misty Water-Coloured Memories of the Wye We Were." I never punned for a college paper again.
Last semester of college I named all my papers after root vegetables: Turnip, Parsnip, Rutabaga.
My big "capstone paper" on a failed federal attempt to preserve a patch of tallgrass prairie was titled "Buffalo Grass, Won't You Come Out Tonight?"
Jesse - Sep 10, 2005 1:02:25 pm PDT #6220 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I'm still annoyed that I didn't get any extra credit for filking a song for class last fall.
Narrator - Sep 10, 2005 1:03:15 pm PDT #6221 of 10002
The evil is this way?
Oh, so she started Kindergarten??? She did well, I take it?
I don't have the details as yet, but yes, she likes school and is only disappointed that she cannot attend the Big Kids School with her brother and sister.
To be fair to the little guy, he mostly tries to kill me in other ways now, like having an allergic reaction to his MMR vaccine. The Great Escape was two years ago. Most of the time when we think he's gone, he's just blinvisible.
Well, it's good to know he can adapt and try new ways to shave years off of your life. Child allergic reactions = high parental stress.
aurelia - Sep 10, 2005 1:08:36 pm PDT #6222 of 10002
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
Child allergic reactions = high parental stress.
The reverse works, too. Watching my mother have an allergic reaction to morphine was far more terrifying than (white fonted for squick factor) having my toes chopped up by a lawn mower .
Topic!Cindy - Sep 10, 2005 1:08:42 pm PDT #6223 of 10002
What is even happening?
I don't have the details as yet, but yes, she likes school and is only disappointed that she cannot attend the Big Kids School with her brother and sister.This is the only year I will ever have all three of them in the same school, at the same time, unless the schools change or we move (neither are likely). Chris only goes for 2.5 hours, though.
Well, it's good to know he can adapt and try new ways to shave years off of your life. Child allergic reactions = high parental stress.Yep. My plans to punch him in the nose on his 25th Birthday continue apace.
Topic!Cindy - Sep 10, 2005 1:10:49 pm PDT #6224 of 10002
What is even happening?
Oh, aurelia. And even though the white font must have also been horrifying, I think in many ways, it's harder to watch someone you love have something horrible happen to her/him.
amych - Sep 10, 2005 1:13:00 pm PDT #6225 of 10002
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
I think in many ways, it's harder to watch someone you love have something horrible happen to her/him.
This is true for me for everything from ordinary head colds on up. I can't even imagine dealing with a sudden scary crisis in a loved one who is not me.
Gus - Sep 10, 2005 1:15:13 pm PDT #6226 of 10002
Bag the crypto. Say what is on your mind.
It is probably me. Probably, no one else ever thinks "This thread has gone Bitches."