Yay Sophia! That's awesome news.
IembarrassingN, I actually wrote the back cover copy for the third book down in that link, Big Spankable Asses. That was an ... interesting freelance job.
Two by two, hands of blue. Two by two, hands of blue.
River ,'Ariel'
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.
Amy - Aug 27, 2007 5:27:27 am PDT #6969 of 10001
Because books.
Allyson - Aug 27, 2007 5:28:36 am PDT #6970 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'm being interviewed by Sally Jessy Raphael at 8:30am PST.
That seems to be a listen live link for those interested!
shrift - Aug 27, 2007 5:29:10 am PDT #6971 of 10001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
Congrats, Sophia!
And after this morning's transportation disaster, seeing the news about Gonzales made me do a double-take at Yahoo News and say, "Huh. Well, guess today doesn't completely suck donkey balls."
tommyrot - Aug 27, 2007 5:31:25 am PDT #6972 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.
Yesterday I had seen several political blogs with rumors of Gonzales' departure. I adopted a wait-and-see attitude, but was slightly optimistic due to the more-than-one-source-ishness....
So, yay!
Sophia Brooks - Aug 27, 2007 5:31:29 am PDT #6973 of 10001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
IembarrassingN, I actually wrote the back cover copy for the third book down in that link, Big Spankable Asses.
Did you get to read it?
Also, yay paperdol!
And, today, in addition and unrelated to me getting a promotion, the other Secretary IV has put in her notice AND our Dean is stepping down, and one of my personal team (a nurse educator) is scaling back her work to twenty hours per week! Big changes all around!
Dana - Aug 27, 2007 5:32:06 am PDT #6974 of 10001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
I'm so bummed that the link doesn't include the back cover copy, AmyLiz. I wanted to see what you could possibly say.
JZ - Aug 27, 2007 5:33:54 am PDT #6975 of 10001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Oh, fuck. I mean, YAY AND GOODBYE, GONZALES, but CNN just had John Cornyn on for a phone interview, and he went on about what a sad, sad day it is and how terrible a thing it is that someone like Al Gonzales, a good man like him, and incidentally the highest-ranking Hispanic in the federal government, should be driven from office because he had the bad luck to be appointed at a time when politics reign supreme.
There are so many things wrong with that statement that I don't even know where to begin. I do know that I just threw up in my mouth a little.
Sophia Brooks - Aug 27, 2007 5:35:03 am PDT #6976 of 10001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
I posted this question before and it got lost, but I think I'll try now when the board is slow--
I am typing a contract with the following sentance about payment. Does anyone else think it is fucked up, or is it legalese. It was written by a nurse with an MBA, not a lawyer:
Payment will be a shared assumption of MY UNIVERSITY 60% and TEACHER'S INITIALS. of 40% minus expenses. Expenses will include copying required course materials chosen by instructor, refreshments, and bulk mailings.
Amy - Aug 27, 2007 5:35:11 am PDT #6977 of 10001
Because books.
That's awesome, paperdol!
Yes, I had to read it. And honestly, there wasn't very much actual spanking, which struck me as quite odd. It was awful. I'm all for good erotic, but this ... wasn't.
Dana - Aug 27, 2007 5:39:07 am PDT #6978 of 10001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
When the General Accounting Office wanted information about Enron officials meeting with Vice President Dick Cheney's Energy Task Force, Gonzales was there to say no way.
He later insulated Bush from congressional records requests and publicly defended the president's order making non-American terror suspects eligible for military tribunals. He also advised Bush to refuse to give prisoner-of-war status to suspected al Qaeda prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
After his 60-36 confirmation as the 80th U.S. attorney general in 2005, Gonzales continued his role as protector, defending the National Security Agency's wiretapping program and, more recently, taking responsibility in the firings of eight U.S. attorneys, some of whom claim they were political casualties.