vw, do you get RefWorks paid through your school?
Yup. It's part of the library. We also use it at work, so I *have* to learn it. So, I figure I might as well utilize it with school stuff too.
Buffy: Dancing with you is way better than trying to hook up with some good-looking guy. Xander: I think I liked it more when you were kicking me in my puffy groin.
'Get It Done'
Spike's Bitches 26: Damn right I'm impure!
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risque (and frisque), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
vw bug - Sep 23, 2005 11:58:17 am PDT #4760 of 10001
Mostly lurking...
beth b - Sep 23, 2005 12:31:15 pm PDT #4761 of 10001
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
Teppy - just do what you need to do tonight...
{{ Susan}}
DavidS - Sep 23, 2005 12:43:23 pm PDT #4762 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
BALLS. Dad is back in the hospital.
Damn. And I thought having a parent go through cancer treatments was a roller coaster.
Topic!Cindy - Sep 23, 2005 1:25:52 pm PDT #4763 of 10001
What is even happening?
Teppy, I'm sorry. I am hoping he is right about the numbness, and checks out just fine.
Yeah, but....I'd just feel so *guilty* for bailing on her. (I'm not asking for reassurances that I shouldn't feel guilty; I'm just trying to convey my admittedly INSANE frame of mind right now.)
Understood. I don't know your friend. I'm a different one of your friends. And as someone whose had sick parents, and other commitments, and friends with same, if you had said you would help me with the volunteer gig tonight, and then I learned about your dad, I'd ask you to stay home, or go be with your dad, or do whatever it was you felt like doing...
...Except reading those demon romances which will send you right to catladyville. Clearly.
Daisy Jane - Sep 23, 2005 1:36:39 pm PDT #4764 of 10001
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
Oh Steph, I'm so sorry. I'm a fan of the movie and a bottle of wine coping mechanism.
Gris - Sep 23, 2005 1:41:35 pm PDT #4765 of 10001
Hey. New board.
The only problem with Buff-diving is when you hit that moment where, suddenly, the humor is synergistic and the laughing starts to hurt but you CAN'T STOP PUSHING THE BUTTON and then you die.
Will now go back and read the last 50 or so posts and see what i'm missing and who I should give punctuation to.
Gris - Sep 23, 2005 1:45:25 pm PDT #4766 of 10001
Hey. New board.
Happy B-Day to Emmett, and much sorriness and well-wishes to Teppy. I understand your "I would feel guilty" thing, but sometimes you really do need to curl up under the covers for a while. Wine optional, but preferred.
DavidS - Sep 23, 2005 1:52:17 pm PDT #4767 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I'm going to run contrary to the prevailing opinion here and advise Teppy to go and do her volunteer thing tonight. It's a better distraction than going home and curling up in a ball.
In my experience, Doing Something is a lot better than Not Doing Something when you're feeling overwhelmed and helpless.
§ ita § - Sep 23, 2005 1:53:48 pm PDT #4768 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
In my experience, Doing Something is a lot better than Not Doing Something when you're feeling overwhelmed and helpless.
You never have different sorts of helpless? Sometimes you need to let the motor run down, sometimes you need to rev it in a different direction.
DavidS - Sep 23, 2005 2:07:09 pm PDT #4769 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
You never have different sorts of helpless?
Of course. And my advice is Teppy and situation specific, not generically applicable. There are definitely times when you need to crawl into your cave and and lick your wounds.
You, for example, are a person where I'd be more inclined to suggest that you recoup spent energies when feeling beleaguered.