I walk. I talk. I shop, I sneeze. I'm gonna be a fireman when the floods roll back. There's trees in the desert since you moved out. And I don't sleep on a bed of bones.

Buffy ,'Chosen'


Natter 48 Contiguous States of Denial  

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.


Kat - Nov 14, 2006 1:29:50 pm PST #248 of 10007
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

This is the day that never ends...

Word.


Aims - Nov 14, 2006 1:30:02 pm PST #249 of 10007
Shit's all sorts of different now.

It just goes on and on like a muther fucker.


brenda m - Nov 14, 2006 1:30:32 pm PST #250 of 10007
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

The Internets, people! Think of the Internets.


erikaj - Nov 14, 2006 1:40:41 pm PST #251 of 10007
Always Anti-fascist!

Honestly, I'm not sure because my life's so weird and cycling between not-adult(asking for rides) to WAY adult(having friends die)


Jessica - Nov 14, 2006 1:43:33 pm PST #252 of 10007
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

The Internets, people! Think of the Internets.

t is soothed


Kathy A - Nov 14, 2006 1:50:15 pm PST #253 of 10007
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil

I'm torn between being happy because the review went okay (yay!) even though I don't know yet how much the raise will be because the boss forgot her password to get into the pay range page on the intranet (boo!), happy because I'm taking tomorrow off to go coat shopping and relax (yay!), or depressed because I'm pricing out cheap exercise bikes on the internet (yay! for exercise, boo! because I need to soooo badly). Dad's going to ask what I want for Christmas, and I want to present him with a printout saying, "This, and can I get it now so I can start working out early?"


libkitty - Nov 14, 2006 2:26:47 pm PST #254 of 10007
Embrace the idea that we are the leaders we've been looking for. Grace Lee Boggs

I don't know what to say about the yeahs and nays, but a belated CONGRATULATIONS and WAY TO GO!!!! on the official going to library school decision. I know folks who have gone to UI's distance program, and it was great for them.


Jesse - Nov 14, 2006 2:29:20 pm PST #255 of 10007
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

That seems like a fine plan, Kathy.

So, Court TV has this new series, Murder By The Book, which has crime fiction authors talking about real crime that is significant to them in some way. They whole series must have been done because of this first episode, because it's James Ellroy talking about his mother's murder. Dude is CREEPY. He keeps calling her "my hated and lusted for mother."


meara - Nov 14, 2006 2:59:57 pm PST #256 of 10007

Sigh. Here I thought it'd be easy to catch up with Natter, only like, 150 posts....and then come to find out there's another 200 in a new thread? No fair!

But mmmm, all the Thanksgiving talk...

My family tends to be "traditional" as in, very little variation. My mom tried an oyster stuffing one year and my dad revolted

She's not joking. One year I brought ScaryWhitePeople food to Vortex's family Thanksgiving (aka green bean casserole with the onions on top!). They were highly suspicious. (Turns out they were afraid I had used canned green beans, which...ew)

Most of the things on that Marie Clare list aren't too bad--mammogram, a financial advisor, a membership to a museum, a favorite charity...(hmm, together that DOES sound rich, but it doesn't have to be!)

Heh. I feel (more) grownup because I finally have more kitchen stuff? I had lots of baking things (muffin tins and cookie sheets and pie pans and such), but threw thanksgiving dinner when SA came out for Turkey Day a few years back, and had to borrow pots and pans from friends, because I had one pot and one pan. Doh.

But the prospect of OWNING PROPERTY has me pretty freaked out, because no way am I grown-up enough to OWN PROPERTY.

But, dude. There's an ALIEN LIFE FORM INSIDE YOU! How is that not more terrifying??


Jesse - Nov 14, 2006 3:09:49 pm PST #257 of 10007
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I dunno, meara, any 13 year old can get knocked up. It takes a Grown Up to get a mortgage.