I can beat up demons until the cows come home, and then I can beat up the cows.

Buffy ,'Dirty Girls'


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.


Sue - Apr 02, 2007 8:49:00 am PDT #205 of 10001
hip deep in pie

It was sunny here, but now, it's more the weather condition I call mysteriously sunny. (Cloudy, but still very bright outside.)


Frankenbuddha - Apr 02, 2007 8:49:40 am PDT #206 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

Last week here. Butterflies in my stomach. I have so much cleaning up and packing to do.

You getting any time off between gigs, Allyson?


-t - Apr 02, 2007 9:00:29 am PDT #207 of 10001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

I have mixed feelings about the Apple-EMI-no DRM news. On the one hand, yay. On the other, what about all the music I've already bought? But mostly, yay.


msbelle - Apr 02, 2007 9:04:29 am PDT #208 of 10001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

WNYC Morning Edition weather people, why have you betrayed me???

EXACTLY! I am bare-legged. Bastards!


Kat - Apr 02, 2007 9:09:15 am PDT #209 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

I have your warm and sunny.

And am irritable and overworked.

Sara brings her own adorable cloud of cranky!


Allyson - Apr 02, 2007 9:12:44 am PDT #210 of 10001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica

Nah, I start the new job on Monday.


Cybervixen - Apr 02, 2007 9:13:51 am PDT #211 of 10001
Queen of the Drive-By

JZ, adorable pictures! She's getting BIG. Crazy how that happens.

In other news, I hate my stupid job. Did I mention that already?


Theodosia - Apr 02, 2007 9:27:24 am PDT #212 of 10001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"

It looks like I will spend a large amount of my afternoon moving files off my work laptop onto my personal laptop so that I don't lose something like 10 years worth of personal stuff. I could go in and clean out my cube, too, but this first.

I talked to ex-Boss and ex-Project Leader and they both are gratifyingly sorry/dismayed/disconsolate that I am gone. They also want me to end up someplace good so that when they end up looking for work, they'll have an 'in'.


JZ - Apr 02, 2007 9:36:08 am PDT #213 of 10001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.

CV, she's huge -- and yet, in the last couple of weeks, we've had more people than we can count look at her and say, "Oh, what an alert baby! [They almost never say "She's so alert!" because although she's almost always in pink, it's not frilly or flowery pink, so everyone always chickens out on guessing her gender -- and most of the people who do, guess "boy". Um.] Two months?"

Also, she has two teeth now! Little bitty bottom front teeth, just sprouting up.

Six-month-old babies are awesome for clearing away the mental cobwebs and debris and overhanging pall of depression, but getting to six months can be a little rocky. The cumulative sleep dep will erode all the pleasure centers in your brain if you're not careful. You really need to schedule yourselves a baby holiday somewhere between 3 and 5 months, where grandparents or good friends or someone else you trust can take the babe for a bit -- even just 18 hours will do in a pinch -- and let you sleep, sleep, sleep.


Allyson - Apr 02, 2007 9:39:43 am PDT #214 of 10001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica

Dinner on Wednesday with exotic, sexy, bright French/Moroccan guy.

Must be gay, right?