He's trying to repair a relationship, or whatever.
edited to not sound dismissive.
Joyce: You don't think it's too obvious? I think I look like I have a cat on my head. Buffy: But a very well groomed cat. Joyce: Well that's a comfort.
'Bring On The Night'
Natter 42, the Universe, and Everything
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, flaming otters, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
sarameg - Jan 18, 2006 3:43:35 pm PST #1219 of 10002
Lee - Jan 18, 2006 3:49:19 pm PST #1220 of 10002
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
He's trying to repair a relationship, whatever.
Except for the part where he wasn't acting as a friend, he was using his semi-medical status and information he got during treatment without your permission.
Wanker.
sarameg - Jan 18, 2006 3:52:41 pm PST #1221 of 10002
Except for the part where he wasn't acting as a friend
HE doesn't think that, hence
Wanker.
Exactly.
§ ita § - Jan 18, 2006 3:53:40 pm PST #1222 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
He's trying to repair a relationship, or whatever.
No, he's not. He's willing to wait until I get over it. He's not trying to do shit.
sarameg - Jan 18, 2006 4:00:53 pm PST #1223 of 10002
OK, fair enough.
I'm sorry if my misunderstanding is making you crankier. I don't want to do that.
sarameg - Jan 18, 2006 4:07:41 pm PST #1224 of 10002
OK, I just flipped on PBS, and there was a landrover stuck in the sand. The voiceover said "and a clever bedouin trick got us free" as a visual of people stuffing weeds and twigs under the tires. Um, not to diss bedouins, but that's a basic automotive unsticking thing. If you don't know that...sheesh.
Emily - Jan 18, 2006 4:10:17 pm PST #1225 of 10002
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
So my father's really actually retiring, has set a date and let the department know and everything, which I'm just finding... odd. I mean, great. But kind of odd. (Part of this may be from playing Sims 2 for the last several days, in which after you reach a certain age, you jump in the air, spin around, come down white-haired, saggy, and wearing frumpy clothes, and are then able to retire.) Also, weirded out by his talking about the experts at his retirement fund. It's like he's rich or something.
sarameg - Jan 18, 2006 4:27:12 pm PST #1226 of 10002
That oddity is in my future, as in the next decade or so. I just realized that my grandparents all were retired by his age. Different generation. I think the last my paternal grandfather worked was when he was 55. My maternal one, later, but that was just waiting for my uncle to take over the farm. I was born after they had retired.
Emily - Jan 18, 2006 4:28:27 pm PST #1227 of 10002
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
Well, it's not clear that my mother will ever retire (mostly for lack of funds, though also academia's a different animal), so it's just... it's weird.
Gudanov - Jan 18, 2006 4:30:13 pm PST #1228 of 10002
Coding and Sleeping
I think it will still be awhile before my dad retires, but like everybody else in his line of the family that is around his age is essentially retired or running toy businesses. More becuase they are all independently wealthy than because of age.