Congrats, Nora!
Oh, dear. I'm so sorry about your assistant, MG.
Mmm. Wife soup. I must've done good.
Wash ,'War Stories'
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.
Calli - Dec 20, 2005 7:24:47 am PST #729 of 10001
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
WindSparrow - Dec 20, 2005 7:32:32 am PST #730 of 10001
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.
{{{{{{MG}}}}}} It's ok. You be worried about your assistant, we'll be excited for you about the prospect of promotion.
Does anyone else remember a story last year or so about chocolate as a cough suppresant?
Amy - Dec 20, 2005 7:40:26 am PST #731 of 10001
Because books.
Congrats, Nora!
vw, can you work on your paper if there's no work "work" to be done?
MG, I kept meaning to send vibes for the C situation yesterday and forgot. Glad to hear it's starting to work out. And yay! for possible promotion, although I can imagine the news about your assistant has taken the sine off your day. Much ~ma to her.
Does anyone else remember a story last year or so about chocolate as a cough suppresant?
I've heard that caffeine can help when you're having a (mild) asthma attack, and chocolate contains caffeine (right?), but other than that I can't imagine it being a cough suppressant. Although, if it, it'll make this sinus infection cough I've got a lot easier to bear.
vw bug - Dec 20, 2005 7:42:23 am PST #732 of 10001
Mostly lurking...
vw, can you work on your paper if there's no work "work" to be done?
This is what I've been doing, for the most part...also, surfing the web, of course. I'm supposed to have a meeting with someone at 12:30. She doesn't appear to be back in the office yet, though.
brenda m - Dec 20, 2005 7:47:23 am PST #733 of 10001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
I don't feel I know Nilly well enough to blame her for stuff. I usually blame Harvey, but then he wants to make it up to me by snuggling and purring.
I thought we were blaming Scola these days.
vw bug - Dec 20, 2005 7:48:34 am PST #734 of 10001
Mostly lurking...
Poor Scola! Poor Nilly!
WindSparrow - Dec 20, 2005 7:54:16 am PST #735 of 10001
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.
Well, I found an article about the study: [link]
Prelim. study, featuring 10 healthy volunteers, and coughing induced via capsaicin. It took a bit more capsaicin to induce coughing in those who had been given brom...something, a component of chocolate, than those who had been given codeine, or a placebo. Innnnnteresting, but hardly conclusive.
WindSparrow - Dec 20, 2005 7:55:01 am PST #736 of 10001
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.
I gotta go get ready for work. Bleh.
P.M. Marc - Dec 20, 2005 8:03:09 am PST #737 of 10001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Oh, MG, how awful!
Ginger - Dec 20, 2005 8:05:30 am PST #738 of 10001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
That's dreadful, MG. Ovarian cancer is so hard to diagnose in time.