Let me guess. We're in a hurry.

Inara ,'Serenity'


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.


Zenkitty - May 24, 2007 8:50:12 am PDT #9032 of 10001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.

Loving those stencils. I think I just found my next art project: to ensure that I don't get my security deposit back.

Someone needs to eat those two remaining chocolate glazed donuts over there, before my willpower breaks down.


shrift - May 24, 2007 9:26:06 am PDT #9033 of 10001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty

Tiny is on the telephone giving someone directions to his home. Is it wrong that I'm tempted to send him an anonymous, ominous postcard?


Kat - May 24, 2007 9:45:27 am PDT #9034 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

I like the lizards, but the daisies are great. That might be my girly side.

Grace was in her first set of clothes this morning: a hospital onesie with little pink flowers. Noah had on a top but no pajama bottoms as he gets too hot as it is. His were blue with cars and wheels.

Gendered in the hospital! then again, their IV splints were often gendered until the nurses realized we didn't care and just used whichever color for whichever kid.


Jesse - May 24, 2007 9:51:12 am PDT #9035 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I hate that so many baby things are so hyper gendered. I mean, I would give multi-colored flowers OR cars to a baby of either gender, but the color coding can push it over the edge.

I say this while wearing a pink sweater and a black-and-white flowered skirt, but I picked them for myself!


Kat - May 24, 2007 9:56:47 am PDT #9036 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

Sure you did, Jesse. But you were influenced by THE MAN.


tommyrot - May 24, 2007 10:12:10 am PDT #9037 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.

Toddler: 1, Monks: 0

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- The little boy spotted the pretty pile of colored sand on the floor of the vast hall and couldn't resist. Slipping under a protective rope, he danced all over the sand, ruining the carefully crafted picture.

Never mind that it was the creation of eight Tibetan monks who had spent two days cross-legged on the floor of Union Station, meticulously pouring the sand into an intricate design as an expression of their Buddhist faith.

They were more than halfway done with the design -- called a mandala -- on Tuesday when they ended their work for the day and left. The little boy showed up sometime later with his mother, who was taking a package to a post office in the hall.

"He did a little tap dance on it, completely destroying it," said Lama Chuck Stanford, of the Rime Buddhist Center in Kansas City.

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Trudy Booth - May 24, 2007 10:16:09 am PDT #9038 of 10001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart

Reason 4,916 why Monks are celibate.


Zenkitty - May 24, 2007 10:20:01 am PDT #9039 of 10001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.

But being Buddhists, they were calm about it.

Reason 4, 916 why I am not a good Buddhist.


Fred Pete - May 24, 2007 10:28:32 am PDT #9040 of 10001
Ann, that's a ferret.

Teddy update --

The vet was very pleased with his appearance last night. He's much livelier, he's gained weight, and his coat looked better. But the vet wasn't going to be too optimistic until the results of the blood work came in.

The results are in. Creatine down by about a third -- still a little high, but not much over the normal range. Calcium down. Unfortunately, red blood cells down (even a little anemic), but that's a normal side effect of all the fluids he's getting.

So for the next week or so, Teddy only goes in for fluids every other day.


-t - May 24, 2007 10:29:40 am PDT #9041 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 an excellent demonstration of their non-attachment if they weren't bothered by the toddler dancing on their partilally completed sand mandala. Practically a koan.