Um, well, we listened to aggressively cheerful music sung by people chosen for their ability to dance. Then we ate cookie dough, and talked about boys.

Giles ,'Get It Done'


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.


Sparky1 - Apr 04, 2007 7:26:55 am PDT #632 of 10001
Librarian Warlord

Kat, I'm sorry your mother doesn't know her place in the world is now adoring grandmother and not troubled teen. Also, David Quammen rocks. Song of the Dodo is one of my go-to books when I need to disappear for 1/2 an hour because I can pick it up, open it to any section and find that it's (still) interesting and well written.

The whole staff is grumpy because the U President often gives folks the afternoon off before a holiday break but it's now past noon and looks like we'll all just have to settle for our 5 day weekend.


JohnSweden - Apr 04, 2007 7:34:37 am PDT #633 of 10001
I can't even.

The whole staff is grumpy because the U President often gives folks the afternoon off before a holiday break but it's now past noon and looks like we'll all just have to settle for our 5 day weekend.

Damn, and I thought my diamond shoes were pinchy today. I'm the one in our unit who has volunteered to _only_ take a four-day weekend. Yes, I know. Big damned hero. I'm guessing Tuesday will be a ghost town around here, so crazy like a coyote, really.


Fred Pete - Apr 04, 2007 7:37:18 am PDT #634 of 10001
Ann, that's a ferret.

John, agreed. Especially if it means you get to take another day off later. I use the same logic for the Friday after Thanksgiving.


Kat - Apr 04, 2007 7:37:58 am PDT #635 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

5 day weekend!!

In defense of Mom, her feelings are hurt and all of the stuff I'm dealing with (feeling like I can't do anything useful, there is no control etc) must be compounded by two for her. I'm not her little girl anymore and she can neither fix my stuff nor her grandchildren's.


Frankenbuddha - Apr 04, 2007 7:38:28 am PDT #636 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

the human brain is essentially a mouse brain with extra toppings.

Anybody else read that last part as "extra droppings"?

Just me then, huh.


msbelle - Apr 04, 2007 7:40:01 am PDT #637 of 10001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

2 day weekend. hatess it. ok, hatess everything.


sarameg - Apr 04, 2007 7:40:07 am PDT #638 of 10001

My weekend is the same length it was last week. Alas.

Oh & the weather forecast has stupid whitestuff on it.


Ailleann - Apr 04, 2007 7:41:22 am PDT #639 of 10001
vanguard of the socialist Hollywood liberal homosexualist agenda

Ailleann needs this in a bad way.

Oh, word. I'd just randomly run up to her and accost her with it, and laugh and laugh. She would probably think even less of me than she does now.

I'm making a bracelet that says, "What Would shrift Do?"

Again, word.


Pix - Apr 04, 2007 7:42:44 am PDT #640 of 10001
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie

I'm making a bracelet that says, "What Would shrift Do?"

I'm thinking "glower" or "slounge" would answer that question quite frequently. And really? Both extremely effective responses to the world.


Ginger - Apr 04, 2007 8:02:10 am PDT #641 of 10001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda

Just me then, huh.

You are not alone.