You two carried me through that war. Now I need you to carry me just a little bit further. If you can.

Tracy ,'The Message'


Spike's Bitches 32: I think I'm sobering up.  

[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.


Nicole - Oct 29, 2006 4:41:11 pm PST #9189 of 10000
I'm getting the pig!

They should frickin' worship me.

They do, hon. They just don't always listen. I would totally worship Orlando Bloom, you know, if he'd let me - but if he told me I couldn't have some very tasty candy or cake, I'd still eat it.

Um... now I'm thinking about punishment and Orlando Bloom.

I'll be in my bunk.


Cass - Oct 29, 2006 4:49:15 pm PST #9190 of 10000
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.

Um... now I'm thinking about punishment and Orlando Bloom.
::thunk::


Lee - Oct 29, 2006 4:53:56 pm PST #9191 of 10000
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.

wibble.


§ ita § - Oct 29, 2006 4:58:26 pm PST #9192 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I HAVE A LEASH.

I now try to send hard copy thank you notes to people that mail me things. I like notecards a lot, and I think it's nice for people to get mail that's not bills or junk. These days it seems like it's all the USPS carries.


Cass - Oct 29, 2006 5:03:25 pm PST #9193 of 10000
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.

I now try to send hard copy thank you notes to people that mail me things. I like notecards a lot, and I think it's nice for people to get mail that's not bills or junk. These days it seems like it's all the USPS carries.
I try to as well. Especially as I have started making some handmade notecards and am thrilled to use them.

I figure I love getting actual real mail and if you want to receive, give.

I HAVE A LEASH.
And recently had a young pretty thing on said leash...

::thunks again::


Nicole - Oct 29, 2006 5:10:42 pm PST #9194 of 10000
I'm getting the pig!

I HAVE A LEASH.

Oh, dear. Very bad thoughts. Very, very bad.

Especially as I have started making some handmade notecards and am thrilled to use them.

No lie. I've seen them. Everyone should send Cass gifties just as a means to see the pretty notecards.


Emily - Oct 29, 2006 5:18:02 pm PST #9195 of 10000
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola

You know, I was raised to write them too, and I still suck at it. I like getting them just fine -- although to be honest except for the whole "did they get it?" I'm not that concerned about it -- and I feel good when I do it, but I SUCK at it. Among other things, I've always had that "Okay, so I said, 'Thank you for the blah.' Now what?" problem. (And so yes, I did bookmark the site. Thank you!)

Cindy, wow. Sounds like a person who thought of manners as obligation rather than lubrication (also a big poor-me-everyone-else-sucks person, let me say). Oh, and hypocrite, of course -- I mean, if you'd gotten thank you notes from her, as you should have, probably you (clearly a very thoughtful little Cindy) would have been writing them too. If she thought they were basic courtesy and wasn't writing them, then SHE'S the one who was being rude.

Er. The intricacies of manners and expectations get me all twisted up with mad. Guess I'd better go plan some lessons!

Oh, quick math survey. Can you solve this problem without calculation: (87 * 326)/87 ? Would you expect an eighth grader to be able to?


Lee - Oct 29, 2006 5:21:36 pm PST #9196 of 10000
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.

yes, and yes.


beth b - Oct 29, 2006 5:22:12 pm PST #9197 of 10000
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!

I have to say - matt's brother A sends lovely thankyou notes. but honestly, even my parents who taught me to send notes only do email or phone.

I was taught that notes - handwritten were what counted. it seems that email and phone calls count among my family. This may be partailly because I have illegible handwritting. and though most of the rest do better than i do - beautiful cooperplate we do not have.

Interestingly, I was also taught not to give with expectation ( as I said earlier) .

It is a paradox.


Hil R. - Oct 29, 2006 5:22:30 pm PST #9198 of 10000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

Can you solve this problem without calculation: (87 * 326)/87 ? Would you expect an eighth grader to be able to?

Yes, and probably. I'm pretty sure that most of my college students would instinctively reach for a calculator, but if they were told not to use it, and to think about the problem, they'd see what they were supposed to do. And I think that I'd get a similar response from the sixth-graders I taught this summer, so I'd guess that eighth-graders should be able to do it.