Oh and Aimee. I tend to be an over-writer too. If you have a word limit, write the first draft without worrying about it. Then cut like hell; if you have trouble cutting like hell, draft Joe - always easier to cut someone else's words. Or if you think this particular help would be hard on your marriage draft someone else.
This is my boat. They're part of my crew. No one's getting left. Best you get used to that.
Mal ,'Ariel'
Natter 45: Smooth as Billy Dee Williams.
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.
Typo Boy - Jun 01, 2006 8:42:28 pm PDT #165 of 10002
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Liese S. - Jun 01, 2006 9:00:35 pm PDT #166 of 10002
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Awww! I should have known there was a Bee watch-n-post. I just watched-and-cringed. Spelling Bees are very stressful to me.
Anyway, yes, her name was Katherine but they called her Karie or somesuch. It was a good Bee. I really enjoyed it. My rate of correct words is fast declining, though. I guess I need to read more complex books. Or the dictionary, whatever.
I didn't mind that they put up the words before they finished spelling, but I did wish they'd at least waited until they started spelling. But mostly I could look away and try myself first. Cause I'm a big geek.
But I'd forgotten how much I love words. I love the way they're put together. I love the etymology. I love what words mean, and how we use them to communicate. I love thinking a word ends in -ious and realizing because of the definition or language origin that it ends in -eous. It's so cool. Language is cool.
Spidra Webster - Jun 01, 2006 11:15:38 pm PDT #167 of 10002
I wish I could just go somewhere to get flensed but none of the whaling ships near me take Medicare.
Skipped 166 posts. Mea culpa.
Up way too friggin' late again. Which I sorta owe to being excited that Woot! posted the Random Bag of Crap tonight and I snagged 3 of them. We'll see what it ends up being. Man, I wish I didn't have to work tomorrow.
Sophia Brooks - Jun 02, 2006 1:38:27 am PDT #168 of 10002
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
I watched the spelling bee with the closed captioning on, and not only did the closed captioning insert the word "word" so one didn't know how to spell it, but it covered up the little bar where ABC put the word up.
I imagine that this would not have been an exciting show for the deaf and hard-of hearing watching with closed captioning, however, as they wouldn't know what word was being spelled.
sumi - Jun 02, 2006 4:26:37 am PDT #169 of 10002
Art Crawl!!!
Remember Evil Jonathan from TAR? Well he and his lovely wife are on Fear Factor and check out the the featured clip on the nbc website.
esse - Jun 02, 2006 4:28:02 am PDT #170 of 10002
S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!
Hee. The spelling bee watch-n-post was highly amusing.
Today it hasn't quite hit 70 yet, which would bode well for the day's heat, if it wasn't bright and sunshining.
Lee - Jun 02, 2006 4:29:01 am PDT #171 of 10002
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
SA!
Hi.
Frankenbuddha - Jun 02, 2006 4:30:49 am PDT #172 of 10002
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Cloudy, drizzly and low 60s today right now in Boston (Salem). Sadly it took forever to get here, and didn't seem to have any breeze with the rain last night. Good for leaving windows open; bad for actually cooling down an apartment. Got maybe 2-3 hours sleep, and not in a row. I really don't even want to break out a fan yet, let alond the AC unit.
Meh, I says.
sumi - Jun 02, 2006 4:31:02 am PDT #173 of 10002
Art Crawl!!!
Oh and a Reality News Online interview with Stephen from Top Chef.
Narrator - Jun 02, 2006 4:45:39 am PDT #174 of 10002
The evil is this way?
You're still going to be my lawyer, when I'm up on assault charges for popping him square in the nose (with malice aforethought) on his 25th birthday, though. Right? Right?
I am not licensed in your state and so canna represent you in a criminal matter in its courts. But if you can get the matter transferred to Buffistas!Court then sure. I'm thinking you won't have too much trouble there -- you'll know the jurors and the judge.