What, you want it back later in good condition?
Mal: Can I come in? Inara: No. Mal: See? That's why I usually don't ask.
'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
Natter 40: The Nice One
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.
flea - Nov 03, 2005 6:45:09 am PST #1013 of 10006
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shrift - Nov 03, 2005 6:45:25 am PST #1014 of 10006
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
shrift, Dana, seriously? I'm impressed neither one of you is on a homicidal rage by now. Actually homicidal, I mean.
I don't know why I'm not strangling people with my bare hands right now. I suspect that I'm saving it up for tomorrow, when they make me participate in some horrifying skit about synergy. That's when I'll flip out like a mammal.
Or walk off the job. That could be fun.
TomW - Nov 03, 2005 6:46:37 am PST #1015 of 10006
"The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be."
Awesome. You know, she's a techie who doesn't play by the rules. Her partner was three days from retirement when that backhoe driver ran him over. Now she's out for revenge, and god help the people who get in her way.
"Buzz, whirr..."
In a world of drives... drives made of FIRE! She's going to hook them up... ANY WAY SHE CAN!
"Nooooooooooooo!"
Backhoe: The Revenge. Fall 2005. The network *will* be severed.
Dana - Nov 03, 2005 6:46:45 am PST #1016 of 10006
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
You should come down with bird flu and be tragically unable to attend the retreat.
§ ita § - Nov 03, 2005 6:50:42 am PST #1017 of 10006
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
What, you want it back later in good condition?
Well, I know I'm getting it back, so I don't want it smelly or dented or anything.
Betsy HP - Nov 03, 2005 6:52:40 am PST #1018 of 10006
If I only had a brain...
FUCK. Now my short-range (i.e. computer) vision is screwed up.
shrift - Nov 03, 2005 6:53:18 am PST #1019 of 10006
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
You should come down with bird flu and be tragically unable to attend the retreat.
It's actually just across the street from our office this year. I'm thinking about hitting up the retreat for breakfast and coffee, and then sneaking over to my office. I wonder if I'd get in trouble for working?
Jessica - Nov 03, 2005 6:53:34 am PST #1020 of 10006
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Oh, crap, Betsy. Is there anything you can do about it, short-term?
Steph L. - Nov 03, 2005 6:57:41 am PST #1021 of 10006
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
Vortex, I'm obsessed with things that are pumpkin-y, but not pumpkin pie: pumpkin creme brulee, pumpkin cheesecake, like that.
Trader Joe's has really good pumpkin granola.
And now I want pumkpin pie.
Lee - Nov 03, 2005 6:59:04 am PST #1022 of 10006
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Well, I know I'm getting it back, so I don't want it smelly or dented or anything.
I'll make sure all the vomit is cleaned off.