Fantastic news, shrift!
Food has been achieved. As predicted, there was no crunchable snow to be found. It's already all turned into slushy goo.
Monty: Whaddya mean she ain't my wife? Mal: She ain't your wife... cause she's married to me.
'Trash'
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.
kat perez - Dec 09, 2005 9:23:17 am PST #629 of 10002
"We have trust issues." Mylar
Allyson - Dec 09, 2005 9:29:16 am PST #630 of 10002
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
I'm listening to The Best of Diana Ross and the Supremes.
The girls always cheer me.
Matt the Bruins fan - Dec 09, 2005 9:31:04 am PST #631 of 10002
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Great news, shrift!
Boy, coming back to work after 3 days of sick leave didn't allow much buffer time to ramp up into the full workload. I be SWAMPED, matey.
Jesse - Dec 09, 2005 9:32:05 am PST #632 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I think you might want to eat something green. also possibly leafy.
If you're talking to me, I think you're crazy.
ita, my mother has a whole chart in the back of her copy of Bleak House, to keep track of who everyone is.
msbelle - Dec 09, 2005 9:34:28 am PST #633 of 10002
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
I am not crazy.
Trudy Booth - Dec 09, 2005 9:37:18 am PST #634 of 10002
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
Shrift, that is WONDERFUL news. That is like Very Special ER Christmas news. Congratulations.
Lee - Dec 09, 2005 9:37:35 am PST #635 of 10002
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Yay for shriftgrandmother!
Weekend plans: Flying to Phoenix tonight after work, then either a 2.5 hour drive to Tucson and then crashing or getting a hotel room at the airport and then getting up at the assscrack of dawn to drive to Tuscon. After that, Christmas shopping with my mother and trying not to go beserker and kill my parents.
Of course, if I fail at the latter, the former is kind of moot.
eta: What I am listening to: the air circulation/heating system.
JZ - Dec 09, 2005 9:38:10 am PST #636 of 10002
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Oh, shrift, that's grand news!
I am currently listening to inpatient daily note dictations. Wound infections, arrests on the OR table, gobs of fun fun stuff.
On the upside, I finally, after over a decade doing this, hit on a way of describing murmurs that doesn't flip parents out -- the parents of kids with innocent murmurs will call periodically, all worried that their kids shouldn't be playing football or having dental work without antibiotics or whatnot, and it's usually a long exhausting process to talk them down from their fears and explain that no, really, that funny sound is just a funny sound and it doesn't mean anything, even though hearts don't usually sound like that. Usually it's a forever-and-a-half phone call, in which my boss has to get involved and which always makes him extra-cranky about having his time taken up reassuring the parent of a totally healthy child that the child is totally healthy.
This morning, one such mom called, and after 10 minutes of fretting and reassuring I said, "It's like being double-jointed or left-handed," and she went ahhhhhh and thanked me all happy-voiced and hung up. SO HAPPY. This may be the best thing I've accomplished all week. Can I go home now, please?
Consuela - Dec 09, 2005 9:39:50 am PST #637 of 10002
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
This may be the best thing I've accomplished all week. Can I go home now, please?
Go, you, JZ!
And i say you can go home.
I just inhaled a crumb from a dry scone, and now I feel awful and can't stop coughing -- can't I go home yet? Oh, wait, mandatory training. Argh.
§ ita § - Dec 09, 2005 9:41:45 am PST #638 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I could murder a tea latte right now.
Shrift, excellent!
Msbelle is crazy, though possibly not about this.
Register me, people! I need to take this pointless test and get a nap.
Thanks for the good wishes. I'm aiming for a big flashing (yet easily removable) signal arrow in the readings.