Jayne: Captain, can you stop her from bein' cheerful, please? Mal: I don't believe there is a power in the 'verse that can stop Kaylee from being cheerful. Sometimes you just wanna duct tape her mouth and dump her in the hold for a month.

'Serenity'


Spike's Bitches 31: We're Motivated Go-getters.  

[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.


sj - Jun 20, 2006 9:26:28 am PDT #788 of 10001
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."

Nope, but given the tendency of the judge to break stemware, you'd be getting them in a well-chilled rocks glass.

This would be good, considering my tendency to spill them after the first one.

Things accomplished today: Unpacked another box(no idea what to do with what I unpacked yet), installed Microsoft Office, and filled out financial aid paperwork.


Trudy Booth - Jun 20, 2006 9:27:12 am PDT #789 of 10001
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

"Now you can tell him when he's older that he used to suck on pap smear sticks!"

That along with the pacifier twirling makes me think he'll be the George Clooney of his day. Seriously.

Kristin, get some rest. (well, you probably already are, just agreeing you should)

I'm home sick today, my throat feels like its been massaged with sandpaper and I'm pretty sure I'm running a fever.

I'd stay put all day except Dallas has a vet appointment tonight. We're going to my old vet in Astoria because her currend vet is, I suspect, bananas for wanting to send her to an oncologist and do radical surgery without even doing a biopsy on a dog who has had cysts removed before. (see, if you disturb the tissue with a biopsy and it is bad well then, you're not going to have as good an outcome as if you assume its cancer and remove half the dog's abdomen because she has little bumps AGAIN). I'm pretty much trying to not cry quite a bit. The dog, of course, has no clue. Heh.


Jessica - Jun 20, 2006 9:34:37 am PDT #790 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

Life is unfair -- this is shooting right across the street from my office, and yet there is no Chris Rock or Gina Torres there. (It's a second unit.)


Aims - Jun 20, 2006 9:37:00 am PDT #791 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.

Ok. Sometimes, I wonder about my classmates. One posted this on the subject of outsourcing:

I'm in So.Cal. and I can tell you that many jobs that used to be for small mom and pop shops or teenagers are now strictly for illegal immigrants. Where I'm located at a basic 4 bedroom house goes for over 800 thousand dollars and many middle class families cannot afford to purchase one, but many are being sold to illegal immigrants because they will put up to 30 people in a house and are not held to the laws as citizens would be.

Huh? If a person is in this country illegally, they don't have a soc sec number. If they don't have a SS#, they can't have reported income. Which means, no tax returns, no bank, nothing which would enable them to purchase an $800k house.

Right? I'm not thinking with the crack-brain?


Amy - Jun 20, 2006 9:38:38 am PDT #792 of 10001
Because books.

Uh, I think you're right, Aimee.

Also, "where I'm located AT" made my brain hurt.


Tom Scola - Jun 20, 2006 9:40:31 am PDT #793 of 10001
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500

Here Illegally, Working Hard and Paying Taxes


beekaytee - Jun 20, 2006 9:41:37 am PDT #794 of 10001
Compassionately intolerant

Oh man. I'm feeling you Aimee. My online classmates were a revelation in criminal grammar and incredible views. One actually wrote his paper on 'ethics' about 'curing the gays'. Not just gay people in general...but the gays.

I wrote to the prof and expressed my outrage, offering to post a rebuttal but she said she would take care of it. Proving that a vague disclaimer is nobody's friend, she posted some pale thing about 'tolerance', never actually naming the issue. Oy.

eta:Ha, busted my own bad grammar. t /instant karma


Aims - Jun 20, 2006 9:42:18 am PDT #795 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.

Oh, that's not even the worst of it, let me tell you. If participation wasn't a requirement (meaning I actually have to engage some of these people in coversation), I would be doblerizing most of them.

Suzi - tell me it gets better.

One of the women I was talking about my paper with said that she read some book about the trials of motherhood and that she thought "it must have made the obortion[sic] clinics happy" because "it would make women who were unsure of what to do to have the obortion[sic]" I went off.


Aims - Jun 20, 2006 9:44:12 am PDT #796 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.

Tom, thank you so much for that article. I had no idea.


Jessica - Jun 20, 2006 9:44:56 am PDT #797 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

Where I'm located at a basic 4 bedroom house goes for over 800 thousand dollars

Yeah, my heart just bleeds...

Regardless, illegal immigrants STILL HAVE TO FOLLOW LAWS. Just because a person got away with breaking one law, one time (the whole getting-into-the-country but) really doesn't mean they get a free pass to ignore all the other ones once they're here. Sheesh.