Apropos of nothing, I find myself wanting to move to Chicago for a while. Not sure why.
Buffistas make me laugh and tear up and laugh again. Stop playing with my emotions, people, I'm fragile.
I'm fairly certain I said no interruptions.
Buffy ,'Potential'
Natter 52: Playing with a full deck?
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 - Jun 06, 2007 7:23:51 pm PDT #1601 of 10001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
tommyrot - Jun 06, 2007 7:24:41 pm PDT #1602 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.
Apropos of nothing, I find myself wanting to move to Chicago for a while. Not sure why.
You like voting early and often?
ChiKat - Jun 06, 2007 7:25:24 pm PDT #1603 of 10001
That man was going to shank me. Over an omelette. Two eggs and a slice of government cheese. Is that what my life is worth?
Apropos of nothing, I find myself wanting to move to Chicago for a while. Not sure why.
Because it's a cool (and sometimes cold) place to live and cool kids live here?
Zenkitty - Jun 06, 2007 7:34:51 pm PDT #1604 of 10001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
There are Buffistas, and it's cool. The downtown area was surprisingly clean. There's a giant Ferris wheel. There's a huge damn lake that looks like an ocean. It seems like a happenin' place. I liked it.
If I could, I'd love to move every year or so to a different city. Just to get the feel of living in a different place. Chicago, Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, just move around. It would be like taking a series of really long vacations.
Lee - Jun 06, 2007 7:39:59 pm PDT #1605 of 10001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
If I could, I'd love to move every year or so to a different city.
You mean that's not what people are supposed to do?
oops
Scrappy - Jun 06, 2007 7:46:49 pm PDT #1606 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Our family reunion is this summer in Chicago, which I am totally jazzed about. We are going, all 45 or so of us, to a Cubs game, renting a trolley for a tour of the city, and much other cool stuff. The only downside is that I just figured out it's during the weekend that the new Harry Potter book comes out and I will have to WAIT to read it. I don't know if I can.
Lee - Jun 06, 2007 7:47:13 pm PDT #1607 of 10001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Why isn't it 10:00 yet? I want to watch TC and then go to bed.
Liese S. - Jun 06, 2007 8:47:14 pm PDT #1608 of 10001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Oh, but Kat, it is okay now, because they are no longer Disney themed. They are not the Mighty Ducks anymore, they are just the Ducks. Which, okay, still not exactly your fearsome mascot, but I cannot talk, what with being a fan of the Penguins and all.
I didn't watch the game. I had a meeting with our builder.
However, we did, over the past two days...
- put in my building permit application
- prep my water hookup application (just needs moola)
- get panicked by our power hookup application and get reassured by our builder
- get our loan process well underway
- finish undone back budget info for the past six months
- complete undone overdue report to major grantor
- update all financial information for board meeting
- do board meeting agenda
- gather all personal financial info for bank
- wrestle mightily with a recalcitrant credit card company, ultimately getting an accounts resolution manager to a) close the account like it was supposed to be yonks ago, b) post an all-clear to the credit reporting agencies, c) write me a letter saying he'd done so for the benefit of my banks, d) apologize profusely and accept responsibility
- break my printer and have a hissyfit then realize that it wasn't broken beyond usability
- spend a bunch of time haggling with both IBM & HP tech support with rather less success than I had with the credit card guy
- firm up our summer schedule, confirming with various family members, friends, and churches
- clean the house
- clear out the refrigerator
- launder everything, including bedding
And tonight I still have to run payroll for the summer while we're on the road, finish upgrading to the next version of Quickbooks, finish board meeting agenda attachments, fax one million pages to two different banks, pack, and fall over.
Oh, and in the middle of all that? We're frantically trying to reschedule the actual board meeting, because we're not going to make quorum.
Kristen - Jun 06, 2007 10:03:13 pm PDT #1609 of 10001
Liese, you have my admiration. I think I'm tired simply from reading all you've been doing.
In Top Chef news, I just started watching so I still haven't read the whitefont yet. But it has to be said... the Team Leaders are Marcel & Stephen? AWESOME.
ETA: Have watched. Have read. And really? The S3 chefs are already annoying me. Shut up new people. I don't know who you even are yet and you're dancing on my nerves. Not a good sign.
YAY, S1! Bite me, S2. I walked away from this reunion hating all of the S2 people. Except maybe Sam. Probably because I barely saw him there.
Theodosia - Jun 07, 2007 1:45:34 am PDT #1610 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"
I went to a panel discussion by executive recruiters, which sounds like it will be a good fallback for me if the networking thing doesn't work out. (They do handle IT jobs, fwiw.)
Other than that, I've been diving into A Song of Ice And Fire all the way through again, which is bringing out a lot of things that I didn't notice or remember.