Angel: Will you just shut up for once?! Illyria: What? Angel: My God, the speechifying. Has it ever occurred to you that now might not be the best time for when-we-were-muck stories?

'Time Bomb'


Natter 53: We could just avoid making tortured puns  

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.


sumi - Aug 03, 2007 3:21:18 pm PDT #2351 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!

Kat, that is just evil. I can't believe how low people can be.


Allyson - Aug 03, 2007 3:39:04 pm PDT #2352 of 10001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica

I miss greasy food. I'd love a slice of pizza and a Coke.


Kat - Aug 03, 2007 3:39:17 pm PDT #2353 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

In fairness, it may have just gotten misplaced when they took her to surgery last week or yesterday. But we checked all of the drawers under her bed and in her dresser and it wasn't there. And Jacques had her name on it.

People anger me.


Bobbi - Aug 03, 2007 3:39:31 pm PDT #2354 of 10001
Dog is my co-pilot.

Kat, how lax is security that someone could take it? I know hospitals always say to bring belongings in at your own risk, but how does something suspended over a baby's bed disappear? I'd put up another one, but before leaving it, I'd open a seam, insert a security transponder, and sew it back up. (I hope they have security transponders on babies there.) I hope there's a reasonable explanation--like a nurse took it home to clean it. But if that's the case, there should have been a note.


§ ita § - Aug 03, 2007 3:40:53 pm PDT #2355 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Kat, I hope it does just turn out to be misplaced. That's crappy as hell otherwise.

Hec alert.


Kat - Aug 03, 2007 3:46:18 pm PDT #2356 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

Bobbi, they don't lowjack the babies in the NICU because when you hear about baby snatching, it's always the fat healthy babies. I mean, seriously? You can't snatch Grace because she comes with a ventilator, an IV stand, and two monitors. Plus NICUs tend to be locked wards -- even at Children's you need to be let in by the nurse; you can't just walk in.

(Related: Noah had surgery on Monday and he had an overnight in the Peds unit at his old hospital. While in the NICU there, he was never security tagged, but in Peds he was. Again, it's too hard to steal a NICU baby, but a Peds baby is easier).

I hope it just got misplaced. But, I would say that it wouldn't be surprising if it walked out with someone. At least the books that paperdol brought Grace are still there. But I guess no one steals books in the ghetto.


Kat - Aug 03, 2007 3:47:39 pm PDT #2357 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

Mena Suvari usually has a giant forehead. Maybe she shaved it because she was going bald already? Like scary male pattern baldness, but on a girl.


sarameg - Aug 03, 2007 3:53:58 pm PDT #2358 of 10001

That's just wrong, Kat.

Nails done, more than half packed. I think I'm in good shape. Flight isn't until 2, but I have to vacuum & take the cat to the vet and the Virgin Music Festival is between me and the vet. Glarg.


Laura - Aug 03, 2007 3:54:15 pm PDT #2359 of 10001
Our wings are not tired.

Shaved head would be convenient.

I hope Jacques is tucked in a drawer somewhere.

I checked the weather at Cape Canaveral to see if the launch would go off tomorrow. Habit I guess since I can't exactly drive there. Weather Underground shows current temp at 0F -17.8C which amuses me. [link]


DavidS - Aug 03, 2007 3:55:02 pm PDT #2360 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Hec alert.

Thank you! I would not have pegged her for the type, but I like it on her. She does have a ginormous five-head. t /Tyra But it still works.