After I fled to the other coast, it took me two years to quit jumping every time a truck rolled by in DC. That last big one I was in? Made an impression. Which still seems weird to me after growing up in the East Bay amid literally uncountable tremors.
It's simple. I slap 'em around a bit, torture 'em, make their lives hell...Sure, the nice guys'll run away,but every now and then you'll find a prince like Spike who gets off on it.
Buffy ,'Get It Done'
Spike's Bitches 28: For the Safety of Puppies...and Christmas!
[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.
beekaytee - Dec 16, 2005 10:16:36 am PST #201 of 10001
Compassionately intolerant
juliana - Dec 16, 2005 10:20:52 am PST #202 of 10001
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
Everyone here is all OMGEARTHSHAKEYWTF when I tell them I'm moving to SF. I try to tell them that I'd much rather have the earth move than a giant funnel cloud chasing me, but the Midwestern fear of the ground shaking is quite ingrained.
Laura - Dec 16, 2005 10:21:13 am PST #203 of 10001
Our wings are not tired.
I've never felt the earth move beneath my feet, on account of earthquake anyway.
Deena - Dec 16, 2005 10:22:00 am PST #204 of 10001
How are you me? You need to stop that. Only I can be me. ~Kara
Timelies. I hope today is going better than yesterday for everyone. Aimee' your friends are in my thoughts. I'm so sorry for their loss.
Suzi, I hope CJ learns his lesson this time and it's a long time before you have to be the mean mom again.
Hugs and hairpats to everyone dealing with retail hell, work tribulations and family woes.
Today's Kara exchange:
Kara: Do you 'member when I was 'dopted?
Me: You weren't adopted! I had you for my very own.
Kara: And that's why you're going to 'dopt another baby when I die!
Me: You're not going to die!
Kara: That's right! I'm going to live forever and ever!
Me: Well, for a very, very long time; until you're very old.
Kara: Oh. Okay.
Spidra Webster - Dec 16, 2005 10:29:02 am PST #205 of 10001
I wish I could just go somewhere to get flensed but none of the whaling ships near me take Medicare.
I try to tell them that I'd much rather have the earth move than a giant funnel cloud chasing me, but the Midwestern fear of the ground shaking is quite ingrained.
That's the way I feel about it. I'm a native Californian. Big earthquakes are pretty rare. Big tornadoes happen with regularity every damned season. When I went to Swedish language camp in MN and saw the sky turn GREEN, I had childhood Wizard of Oz horror flashbacks.
I guess it's what you're used to.
vw bug - Dec 16, 2005 10:31:38 am PST #206 of 10001
Mostly lurking...
OMG. That was hysterical. We did a Yankee Swap with the Christmas presents. I'm surprised that didn't last forever!
esse - Dec 16, 2005 10:32:23 am PST #207 of 10001
S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!
Good afternoon! Cass, sorry about your grandma. My grandfather broke his hip earlier this year and is on this third bout of cancer. It's so, so hard.
Kara is so funny, Deena. Scary. But funny.
Gris - Dec 16, 2005 10:33:27 am PST #208 of 10001
Hey. New board.
I felt the earth move under my feet once. It wasn't that freaky until the skies started tumbling, a-tumbling down.
Aims - Dec 16, 2005 10:33:56 am PST #209 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
All over, all over, all over, all over!
Sean K - Dec 16, 2005 10:34:22 am PST #210 of 10001
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
but the Midwestern fear of the ground shaking is quite ingrained.
And utterly baffling to me. I grew up terrified of tornadoes, and ready to move far the fuck away from them. How people who live with them could be prepared to keep them over the unknowns of earthquakes is beyond me.
Besides, their certainty in the immovability of their own ground is sorely misplaced.