The Empress in Bitches:

Dear Powers That Be -

I don't know why you took my trouble-free, cheerful, and docile daughter and replaced her with the screaming demon that now resides in our house. Was it a sick need to hear, "MINE! MINE! MINE!" screamed at 10,000 decibles for a full ten minutes? Was it a sadistic exercise in "Let's see how much Aimee can take before she pulls her hair out?" Either way, I would think that both of these needs have been met in the past two weeks and I would like The Other Emeline back as soon as possible (you know - the one without the goatee. Have you ever had to shave a toddler in the morning?)

Please accept the sacrifice of this dog, these Michael Kors shoes, and this long box of Silver Age comics in an effort to appease you.

Sincerely,

Aimee

P.S. In addition, I am enclosing a check for $5000 and some chocolate peanut butter chip brownies. The brownies are for now. Please wait until next Friday to cash the check.

JZ, in Bitches, hitting my square in the childhood:

OTOH, we saw a flash of Suzi in the crowd, and moments later the phone rang -- Emmett, calling from his mom's house, to say, "Hey, that was Suzi! Did you see her?" Clearly, the Name-That-Cool-Grownup flash cards are working.

Kate P: You mean... I've licked candy off the neck of the woman whose friend slept with Captain Jack? Suddenly I feel a tiny bit closer to God.

Daniel Jensen: Take that, Kevin Bacon.

Nilly in Natter:

I'm sorry, I never understood the logic behind drying dishes. They're going to dry anyway by themselves, right? It's like waving a shirt around and going all "phoo" on it instead of hanging it to dry by the wind, in my eyes.

shrift in Boxed Set, no context means no spoilers:

I don't see him as a sex machine so much as sex positive, in a "So you've finally shaken off those pesky Puritanical roots, America! What will you do now?" "Oh, I think the question is what won't I do, Universe." kind of way.

Amych, in Natter:

Live TV is weird. It stops the show right in the middle to show these other little shows that are, like, total non-sequiturs and only about 30 seconds long and really anvilly. And it doesn't let me fast forward past them.

Ha! I am so Tivo engrained that when I read this in thread, I didn't really understand it. I thought to myself, is that some kind of computer based tivo like MythTV? And why would they do that?

Hee. Hehehee.

Aimee in Natter:

Fucking hate math.

I just said that outloud and my boss about passed out.

"I don't want to hear that you hate math! YOU'RE THE GODDAMNED BOOKKEEPER."

erikaj in Bitches:

Baseball posting always makes me feel like that part in Xander's dream where Giles speaks French.

I'm surprised no one posted this yet, so I must.

Ginger in Bitches:

Cyanide is natural. Rats are natural. Salmonella is natural. Chasing down small animals, killing them with sticks and eating them raw is natural. Squatting in the woods is natural. Sneezing and dripping from allergies is natural. I like to think we've reached the Post-Natural Age.