Jessica! Really? This whole thing is so surreal. It also means my realease date has been pushed up to mid-July. Meep.
Dawn: You're not fleeing. You're... moving at a brisk pace. Buffy: Quaintly referred to in some cultures as the Big Scaredy Run Away.
'Touched'
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.
Allyson - Apr 03, 2007 4:56:25 am PDT #352 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
Jessica - Apr 03, 2007 5:03:38 am PDT #353 of 10001
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
Well, either they'll take my "you have to read this book" advice instantly and learn all about fandom from reading it, or I'll have to explain fandom in order to persuade them. Either way, that closet door is wide open...
(My co-workers already know I'm online all day. They just don't know what it is I do here.)
(And to be fair, keeping up to date with media/tech news is relevant to my job, so it's not like my interweb activities are a complete waste of the company's time.)
sarameg - Apr 03, 2007 5:08:19 am PDT #354 of 10001
I just realized -- Vampire People will probably mean the end of hiding my fannishness from my co-workers.
I've had that realization too. Plus, snot. Eek.
Allyson better make enough money as a famous writer to keep us all once we've lost our jobs due to being on line all day!
And this!
Heh.
Kat - Apr 03, 2007 5:12:32 am PDT #355 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
sara! D sounds like a cutiehead!
if a new mother is home before her newborns, she should be unable to avoid sleeping like a log.
I wish this were true.
sarameg - Apr 03, 2007 5:17:05 am PDT #356 of 10001
Hey, poor non-sleepihead!
The entire time I was talking to my brother, D was going on and on at a million miles an hour in the background. J was trying to organize the garage (gajillions of car parts) and D was, um, helping. Which means he was being a chaos demon, basically. The tyrannosaurus rex was also killing the chocks, also referred to as frogs. But they didn't have to go to jail.
bon bon - Apr 03, 2007 5:20:39 am PDT #357 of 10001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
What the... ? You know, it's a relatively interesting little thing, but adding the bits at the top and bottom to say, "Hey, aren't you cool and above-average for being able to read it" kind of contradict the point made within the text, doesn't it?
I'm sure that part was added later: [link]
§ ita § - Apr 03, 2007 5:24:11 am PDT #358 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
if a new mother is home before her newborns, she should be unable to avoid sleeping like a log.
I wish this were true.
Seems like it's impossible, really. But it sucks.
Yeah, there's no way I can mention that book to anyone without being immediately and dramatically busted, is it?
tommyrot - Apr 03, 2007 5:26:52 am PDT #359 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Yeah, there's no way I can mention that book to anyone without being immediately and dramatically busted, is it?
You could say, "Um, hypothetically, if I was part of an online community of fans, it might be a lot like the one described in this book. Which coincidentally describes a person with the same name as me."
Kat - Apr 03, 2007 5:28:18 am PDT #360 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
nope, ita. Especially since you are featured in an essay!
Oh goody! pumping then a nap. My life, she is glamorous.
Okay, help needed. I'm looking for a non-beauty pagent answer to this question. I have a friend who is starting the adoption process and needs a sincere but not schmaltzy answer to "Why do you want to adopt?"
Connie Neil - Apr 03, 2007 5:29:51 am PDT #361 of 10001
brillig
I'm waiting for the talk show hosts to get hold of Vampire People and start requesting interviews. Honestly. It's the kind of thing Letterman would love.
Also, I didn't have any trouble reading the jumbled word thing. It reminded me of a psych test I took as a freshman in college, the grad student had scrambled words and he was timing how long it took people to read them. He didn't have time to click his stop watch before I'd gone through half the list. He was very angry with me for throwing off his data. I have a good gestalt brain.