Well, if folks would like some Diablo Sound stuff there's now a cafepress shop up
I think it's very funny that you chose to include the maternity shirt. Heh. "Hey, nice t-shirt! Wait a second...your name wouldn't be 'Rosemary' by any chance, would it?"
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t tired rant
I am having a nibbled to death by ducks kind of day. Fought 30 miles of commuter traffic to get to school, all virtuous and ready to be productive, and discovered that my new classroom is in complete chaos: a few random student desks (not the ones I'm supposed to eventually have), everything piled on top of the teacher desk, and no clear indication of whether they're planning to paint or anything. Also no projection screen, which was the *only* thing I asked for this year. I sent an email off to maintenance asking (very, very nicely) whether or not I could start setting up or if work was still being done, but there was nothing left to do today except grab some curricular stuff and head home. Five miles into the commute back, I got stuck in a massive traffic jam from a semi that had gone over the median and shut down three lanes of traffic on the 101. Finally got most of the way home, stopped at the pharmacy, and learned that one of my prescriptions has exceeded the insurance company's maximum allowable limit, and the other one isn't covered at all. That second one is the Ambien that was going to ensure I didn't do my yearly insomnia routine for the first week of school. The pharmacy called the doctor, who said he would speak to the insurance company to get prior approval. Unfortunately, that process takes two weeks. I'm going to ask if I can get some more samples from the doctor, but argh.
Anyway, I left the house five hours ago and yet feel like I have accomplished nothing. Really not a big deal in the grand scheme of things, and nothing that won't be resolved relatively easily in time, but man do those little nibbles add up. Stupid ducks.
t /tired rant
but man do those little nibbles add up. Stupid ducks.
{{{Kristin}}} I'm sorry. I hate those kind of days.
Also, where does "nibbled to death by ducks" come from? My therapist asks me what it means EVERY time I say it, and I thought it was a pretty common phrase. Is that a Buffistadom?
I've heard pecked to death by swans...
I'd go for the nibbling ducks instead. swans can be mean. pretty though.
I heard it from Betsy on Table Talk.
And I'm guessing cause ducks take small bites and wouldn't savage you like a bear might(Ok, Stephen, you can look now)
I've heard it in several non-Buffista/TT contexts....
I'm pretty sure I heard it before finding b.org. But then, there are expressions that are confined to either a region or other groups. (Once, in college, I used the phrase "not enough room to swing a cat" and the person I was speaking to not only had never heard it, but she ran off to write it down to repeat to ... whoever.)
I'm lecturing tonight at 8:20 p.m. The professor coordinating this piece of the evening students' orientation just told me what classroom we'll be in, and then mentioned that she forgot to ask the AV people to unlock the computer. I raced to catch someone before they all left for the day and found out we've been scheduled in the room where the projector is broken.
So long as we're talking about ducks and their nibbly ways.
I heard it from Betsy on Table Talk. And I'm guessing cause ducks take small bites and wouldn't savage you like a bear might(Ok, Stephen, you can look now)
Betsy rocks. (ETA: Whether or not it originated with her.) I use that expression all the time and love it to pieces. And yeah, I see it as every nibble being some little annoyance that isn't a big deal by itself, but the cumulative effect is really not fun.
I googled the exact phrase and got 12,900 matches: [link]
One also had the phrase "death by a thousand cuts" which is similar but sounds a little more gory....
I know I've used it for 20 years, because we used it all the time at a job I had that pretty much consisted of being duck food.
