I get every Monday off! And every Friday!
It's the best thing ever.
Mal: If anyone gets nosy, just, you know... shoot 'em. Zoe: Shoot 'em? Mal: Politely.
'Serenity'
Natter 39 and Holding
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.
Kristen - Oct 07, 2005 9:46:56 am PDT #4282 of 10002
Lee - Oct 07, 2005 9:47:53 am PDT #4283 of 10002
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Kristen sucks.
P.M. Marc - Oct 07, 2005 9:47:59 am PDT #4284 of 10002
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Paul is burning up some flex time, so he has today and Monday off.
Thus far, I have slept and had a breakfast that was actually cooked instead of grabbed randomly from a box.
The book's called Godel's Proof.
Emily, would (if it could be found) it make a good Christmas gift for someone exceedingly mathy, or is it geared more for the layperson?
Connie Neil - Oct 07, 2005 9:48:04 am PDT #4285 of 10002
brillig
I was raised in the country and knew lots of kids who did 4-H, raising calves and such for their yearly projects. Everyone knew that Bossy was going to be steak in the fall, but that didn't stop Bossy getting hugs and treats. I'm always sadistically amused when people finally understand where their hamburger comes from.
Topic!Cindy - Oct 07, 2005 9:48:28 am PDT #4286 of 10002
What is even happening?
Kristen sucks.
That's how you get the good jobs in LA.
§ ita § - Oct 07, 2005 9:48:55 am PDT #4287 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I'm always sadistically amused when people finally understand where their hamburger comes from.
I'm not amused, so much as startled. I need to get over being surprised. I just don't see the abstraction myself.
Topic!Cindy - Oct 07, 2005 9:52:06 am PDT #4288 of 10002
What is even happening?
I was raised in the country and knew lots of kids who did 4-H, raising calves and such for their yearly projects. Everyone knew that Bossy was going to be steak in the fall, but that didn't stop Bossy getting hugs and treats. I'm always sadistically amused when people finally understand where their hamburger comes from.
Even city kids learn this pretty early on, don't they? I mean, eating "chicken" and "fish" pretty much gave it away to me that meaty things came from animals.
Kristen - Oct 07, 2005 9:54:24 am PDT #4289 of 10002
Kristen sucks.
No, I rule!
tommyrot - Oct 07, 2005 9:57:22 am PDT #4290 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Even city kids learn this pretty early on, don't they? I mean, eating "chicken" and "fish" pretty much gave it away to me that meaty things came from animals.
But you're not confronted with the physical reality of it if you're a typical city kid. Or so I'd guess.
Jessica - Oct 07, 2005 9:58:46 am PDT #4291 of 10002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Even city kids learn this pretty early on, don't they? I mean, eating "chicken" and "fish" pretty much gave it away to me that meaty things came from animals.
I understood it from a pretty early age without ever having been near a cow, yeah.
But my best friend's little brother spent about a week as a vegetarian after his first class trip to a farm, so for some kids there's definitely a difference between knowing that hamburgers come from cows and knowing that hamburgers come from cows. (This particular 8 year-old boy's bout with vegetarianism ended after he realized it would involve eating vegetables.)