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 41: Why Do I Click on ita's Links?!  

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.


sarameg - Dec 28, 2005 6:25:42 pm PST #5761 of 10002

Allyson, clean place is thing #1. The rest? If you don't have it, you can get it or do without. Believe me. I did Hell Holiday Duty and came home with enough time to sleep 4 hours and didn't get to unpack (I HATE BEING PACKED) until the next day. But! Things were relatively clean at home, so all I had to do was unpack my makeup and hair crap and crawl into bed. With a scotch. Did I mention my Hell Holiday would have been so much better with liberal applications of alcohol.

If I'm stupid enough to do it again, I'm packing a flask.


quester - Dec 28, 2005 6:51:40 pm PST #5762 of 10002
Danger is my middle name, only I spell it R. u. t. h. - Tina Belcher.

Caught up! whew!

thanks again for all the b-day wishes. My sister, sister-in-law and my best friend spent the day mostly eating, at least it felt like that. There was some driving, museum walking and a movie in between, but the rest of the time was eating. best birthday in years!

Sis and SiL drive back up to Iowa tommorrow. Then I have a lunch with best friend and 2 others we only see rarely.

then New years eve, and I think I'll need a vacation to rest up from all the celebrating. It's wearing me out!


Kat - Dec 28, 2005 7:38:51 pm PST #5763 of 10002
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

If I'm stupid enough to do it again, I'm packing a flask.

Or the sleepy sudafed pills.


sumi - Dec 28, 2005 8:15:41 pm PST #5764 of 10002
Art Crawl!!!

All you people who didn't know that Jamie Bamber is British obviously didn't watch the Horatio Hornblower series.


Daisy Jane - Dec 28, 2005 8:34:45 pm PST #5765 of 10002
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."

Clearly


Theodosia - Dec 29, 2005 1:20:09 am PST #5766 of 10002
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"

Heh. I didn't know I should have mentioned Bamber's lovely accent -- yeah, he really does sound like pre-angst Wesley. I also loved Not Six!Tricia Helfer.

Incidentally, there's an interview with Olmos and McDonnell in the newest TV Guide that's adorable also.

In other news: Timelies!


Jesse - Dec 29, 2005 4:19:07 am PST #5767 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

OMG so tired. How do people do this every day, again? Tonight I go to bed at 10 for reals. On the plus side, I'm learning just how fast I can get up and get ready, after sleeping through my alarm for various lengths of time.....

Hey, was yesterday Emily's birthday, too?


Sue - Dec 29, 2005 4:26:18 am PST #5768 of 10002
hip deep in pie

OMG so tired. How do people do this every day, again? Tonight I go to bed at 10 for reals. On the plus side, I'm learning just how fast I can get up and get ready, after sleeping through my alarm for various lengths of time.....

I'm just later and later for work.


Jesse - Dec 29, 2005 4:28:39 am PST #5769 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I'm just later and later for work.

I think that's how I did it when I had a real job. As a temp, more or less, I feel some compulsion to be on-time-ish. Not that I wasn't 15 minutes late yesterday.

That's a thing that's annoying: On Tuesday, I left at 8:10, got here at 8:55. Had to wait for someone to unlock the door. Yesterday, I left at 8:20, got here at 9:15. Bah! Today, I got it right -- left at 8:15, got here 9:00, thanks to good connections on the train.


§ ita § - Dec 29, 2005 4:28:41 am PST #5770 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Glargh. That's all I have to say about the morning.

Man, I'll be glad when I stop waking up with headaches. I used to be able to pass for a morning person.