The cashier at CVS just told me to "be careful out there" because of wild coyotes and tornados.
No. And yes. It's always sudden.
Tara ,'Storyteller'
Natter Area 51: The Truthiness Is in Here
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.
aurelia - Apr 10, 2007 2:17:17 pm PDT #1774 of 10001
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
billytea - Apr 10, 2007 2:30:44 pm PDT #1775 of 10001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Of course not. Everyone knows pink is the proper color for figments.
Aww. Figments have their own pigments.
sarameg - Apr 10, 2007 2:46:09 pm PDT #1776 of 10001
Aw, hoping Boots responds well to treatment.
OK, so I went and looked up when I was in Spain, and it was indeed the first week an April, 11 years ago. And I made the mistake of reading some of the non-travel related entries. Holy hell, so much mental drama and wroughtness. Angst! I can laugh at it now, even as I ain't letting anyone else read it. I consider myself pretty navel-gazing now, but people. Not like that! Eeash. Well, I guess that's what teens (even when they are 20) do. And dang, I totally forgot I had such a crush on that boy. Goodness.
Daisy Jane - Apr 10, 2007 2:59:00 pm PDT #1777 of 10001
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
Hee. Every once in a while, when I want to take myself down a couple of pegs, of if I'm feeling overly angsty, I pull out my journals from HS.
And then I laugh and laugh and laugh at me.
sarameg - Apr 10, 2007 3:17:42 pm PDT #1778 of 10001
Yeah, it's pretty effective. When I'm not squinting and trying to read with one eye completely closed. It's funny, some of the stuff I used to angst and throw dramatic written hissy fits over is stuff that, while at core might still be issues, now my response is eh. whatever.
It's either maturity or boredom!
-t - Apr 10, 2007 3:19:59 pm PDT #1779 of 10001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
It's either maturity or boredom!
Heh. I was awfully in love with drama at that age. It was exciting!
I'm mostly over exciting.
brenda m - Apr 10, 2007 3:29:03 pm PDT #1780 of 10001
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
Hee. I'm still sorry I missed that coyote.
ION, peer pressure is bad, m'kay? I myself succumbed to the insanity that has overtaken our graphics department and took the stairs leaving work.
We're on the 47th floor.
I think my thigh muscles will stop quivering by tomorrow. Probably.
Jesse - Apr 10, 2007 3:29:52 pm PDT #1781 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Oh god, that reminds me of a hilarious thing that happened over the weekend. L was arriving at the house Friday evening, and called when she should have been there already. She had pulled over to take a picture of something pretty, and her car got stuck in the sand.... Four houses away from where we were. By the time we got over there, some guy from the Navy base in an enormous truck was waiting to help her get out, but he kept asking us for chains or ropes. Needless to say, we didn't have any chains or ropes handy, but C dug up some nylon straps, which actually worked, miraculously. Anyway, after it was all said and done, the Navy guy kept saying "Man, that was some good action! Not like bad drama, good action!" We figure his massive truck with custom tires never actually made it off-road.
sarameg - Apr 10, 2007 3:34:51 pm PDT #1782 of 10001
That's hilarious, Jesse. That probably totally justified his truck to him, if he had any second thoughts.
Jesse - Apr 10, 2007 3:38:26 pm PDT #1783 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
And thank goodness for it, really. Although really thank goodness for C, who talked the guy down from tying the straps to the grill of the rental car. And didn't get overly annoyed when the guy talked to him like he'd never driven a car before. C worked for Ford for years.