I have no more Polgara in my living room, which is sad making.
Also sad making is the fact that I want to take a nap, but the wind here is strong enough to qualify as howling, which is freaking out the cats, and they won't let me sleep.
Fred: It's the pictures in my mind that are getting me. It's like being stuck in a really bad movie with those Clockwork Orange clampy things on my eyeballs. Wesley: Why imagine? Reality's disturbing enough.
'Shells'
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.
Lee - Apr 29, 2007 2:47:17 pm PDT #4801 of 10001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Topic!Cindy - Apr 29, 2007 2:48:47 pm PDT #4802 of 10001
What is even happening?
Jessica, if I die from it I expect you avenge me by force-feeding Bamber cheesecake until his LDL hits 300 the next time you meet.
Matt, I will totally comply with this, since Jessica seems to have her own agenda (I wonder if she has her own lobby, too).
quester - Apr 29, 2007 2:51:20 pm PDT #4803 of 10001
Danger is my middle name, only I spell it R. u. t. h. - Tina Belcher.
That's crazy. I hope no one I know was there.
Erin, this was my first thought, too. It's so weird to think that I almost went there today.
Strix - Apr 29, 2007 3:04:41 pm PDT #4804 of 10001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
I'm glad you didn't go. So many time I run into my friends there. That guy ran into target and started shooting -- that's MY Target! I buy tampons and pick up scripts there!
Ugh. I know I'm going to know someone who was there.
Glamcookie - Apr 29, 2007 3:18:58 pm PDT #4805 of 10001
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
I just nipped up the Fat Cat Boogie Mat and added a Fat Cat Scratcher Mat to the mix. I have two wacky felines right now, but at least they are taking turns quite nicely.
We went to the Science Center and saw an IMAX 3D Deep Sea movie and then saw a big Star Wars exhibit. It was all very cool. The movie was narrated by Johnny Depp and Kate Winslet. Is there anything Depp can't do? He was a fabulous narrator. NSM for Kate. The SW exhibit had all kinds of cool costumes and models and stuff.
aurelia - Apr 29, 2007 3:29:48 pm PDT #4806 of 10001
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
erin and quester, I'm glad you've both checked in. I doubt my parents would've been there (they never have their cell phones on, so I haven't called yet) but a dozen or more South Patrol cops are people I went to high school with.
Strix - Apr 29, 2007 3:32:45 pm PDT #4807 of 10001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
3 of my friends have checked in, and they weren't there. I am waiting for another friend to call me -- she and her husband live about 5 minutes away from WParkway, and the last time I saw them, I ran into them at the PetSmart there.
§ ita § - Apr 29, 2007 3:52:55 pm PDT #4808 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I hate the waiting to check in minutes...they drag so horribly. Hope your people aren't affected.
I am encased in ice--got a friend to work on my shoulders. As a result I can turn my head more (driving's much better this way), but I need to ice like a mo'fucker.
About ten, fifteen more minutes of this, and then uber-hot shower and stretching and then back to ice.
sarameg, sorry to hear you didn't make it. But yay lampshade!
Nora Deirdre - Apr 29, 2007 4:20:37 pm PDT #4809 of 10001
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)
She was actually quite accomplished at being Dean of Admissions and had raised diversity admissions by 11 percent.
Yes, she was LEGENDARY, administratively speaking. This whole thing is fucked up. It also says a lot about the question of "do you really need a college education to suceed or do you just need people to think you have one?"
It's really sad. I mean, she's ruined. No matter how well this book turns out, I don't see her getting anything from the academic community ever again. She has basically made MIT and academia look like fools.
§ ita § - Apr 29, 2007 4:24:26 pm PDT #4810 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Her job was about academic credentials. Thing 1, she lied. Thing 2, she was lying about the very core of her job--accreditation.
The lying I think should get her fired alone. The slap in the face is the topic of the lie.
It's like when I worked at a customs brokerage firm. You got caught lying to customs crossing the border, you were out on your ass. I doubt any of my other jobs would care.