I just think it's rather odd that a nation that prides itself on its virility should feel compelled to strap on forty pounds of protective gear just in order to play rugby.

Giles ,'Beneath You'


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.


bon bon - Jun 04, 2007 9:07:40 am PDT #892 of 10001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.

Guys, I'm pretty sure I'm dying. See, it all started on Saturday, when my wrist hurt-- mysteriously. It only got worse on Sunday. Also mysteriously. Then, my wrist was better today-- extremely mysteriously! But my middle finger is going numb. I'm dying, right? Of digital cancer?


Fred Pete - Jun 04, 2007 9:12:04 am PDT #893 of 10001
Ann, that's a ferret.

bon bon, my first instinct ran to "carpal tunnel." But I do that with anyone who uses computers a lot and has any problems below the elbow.


Jessica - Jun 04, 2007 9:15:00 am PDT #894 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

Numb fingers definitely sounds carpal tunnelish to me.


Lee - Jun 04, 2007 9:16:39 am PDT #895 of 10001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.

Carpal tunnel was my first thought too, bon bon.

You reminded me -- I have a bump on my scalp that hurts, especially when I touch it. I think I might have skull cancer.

eta:

Friday my neighor burned her face while trying to light her grill, so that was some bad drama. Oy.

Oy indeed. Is she okay?


brenda m - Jun 04, 2007 9:18:17 am PDT #896 of 10001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there

Oh, I keep meaning to ask. Do the Dresden books follow the plots of the series episodes? Or, you know, other way 'round obviously. I want to pick up the books but am I going to recognize the plotlines?


brenda m - Jun 04, 2007 9:18:37 am PDT #897 of 10001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there

Also, yeouch to face burning. Not too badly, I hope?


§ ita § - Jun 04, 2007 9:20:02 am PDT #898 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Saturday I went to the ER and Sunday I tried (pretty successfully, all told) not to get out of bed.

Bon, I've got an appointment for which my PCP's referral read "hand lesion." I'll tell you how that went, and you can use that information in your self-diagnosis. It's irritatingly getting worse.

Before my TiVo drove me insane this weekend, I watched a few episodes of The Riches. Tried to like it, I really did, but the scene where Doug went into the office, prepped to con his new co-workers, except not really prepped at all, and does a completely flaccid improv job turned me off. If I'm supposed to believe he's any good at the con, the writers need to tell me he's improvising without writing the rest of his audience as stupid. And if he's not, it makes the show pretty much them tipping from near discovery to near discovery (I think I was 4 eps in) which was not my idea of fun.

Vaguely relatedly, my sister says that she has no interest in the Ocean's movies because everyone's so durn pretty, and it looks like a big old clique.

For a while there it was like talking to an alien, but I think I kinda got my point across--that I don't call it a clique if all the viewers are invited, and that the slick con genre benefits from the pretty.

Since we're all so shallow.

She still won't see any of them, though.


beekaytee - Jun 04, 2007 9:20:16 am PDT #899 of 10001
Compassionately intolerant

I spent the weekend changing Fela's sinus surgery dressing 3 times an hour, watching Buffy with him, seeing Shrek 3 with him (a world of meh) and then doing laundry and dishes Sunday.

Mine is a wild, wild life.


sumi - Jun 04, 2007 9:21:05 am PDT #900 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!

24: He played the lover of the character played by Keri (Kari?) Matchett and he wasn't in the finale. He was a Russian spy who was using Matchett for her connection to the Vice President. (She was the Veep's aide and lover.)


shrift - Jun 04, 2007 9:21:22 am PDT #901 of 10001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty

She didn't burn her face too badly, but she did have to go to the ER for some nose-bandaging and painkillers.