I was supposed to go to Greensboro (NC) to see a best friend's new baby
Are you in NC? Whereabouts? (I went to grad school in G'boro and have my brother & family are in Raleigh.)
Just call me the computer whisperer.
Willow ,'Lessons'
Spike's Bitches 37: You take the killing for granted.
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
lisah - Sep 14, 2007 10:10:56 am PDT #5622 of 10001
Punishingly Intricate
Sparky1 - Sep 14, 2007 10:17:09 am PDT #5623 of 10001
Librarian Warlord
"Well, you know she's sort of heavy."
Ouch. Is he the type of person that can be set straight?
A professor here really, really needs to be taken down a peg. Dear Asshole, No, I actually don't work FOR you. If you learn some manners I might work WITH you.
BigDuluth - Sep 14, 2007 10:19:02 am PDT #5624 of 10001
"I am the all-singing, all-dancing crap of the world"
Are you in NC? Whereabouts? (I went to grad school in G'boro and have my brother & family are in Raleigh.)
I'm in VA (Roanoke specifically) but have people all over NC having worked at a summer camp for a few summers years ago. I tend to pop down on an as-can basis to see them
Cass - Sep 14, 2007 10:25:36 am PDT #5625 of 10001
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
Is he the type of person that can be set straight?Whomp him with a cluestick. Might help, will definitely be fun.
Ginger - Sep 14, 2007 10:26:20 am PDT #5626 of 10001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
For the unappreciated librarians, from James Lee Burke's latest:
"Then I used the most valuable and unlauded investigative resource in the United States, the lowly reference librarian. Their salaries are wretched and they receive credit for nothing. Their desks are usually tucked away in the stacks or in a remote corner where they have to shush noisy high school students or put up with street people blowing wine in their faces or snoring in the stuffed chairs. But their ability to find obscure information is remarkable and they persevere like Spartans."
Stephanie - Sep 14, 2007 10:29:42 am PDT #5627 of 10001
Trust my rage
Is he the type of person that can be set straight?
Honestly, I don't think so. Perhaps if it came from DH, but probably not from me. FIL and MIL have been bugging me to send Ellie there for a few weeks, or even one week, but there's no way I'd subject her to that.
I just don't get how, having been through so much with their daughter, they don't see the potential to hurt their granddaughter. If I ever heard someone had said something like that about Ellie, that would be her last visit.
omnis_audis - Sep 14, 2007 10:37:35 am PDT #5628 of 10001
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir
Sophia Brooks!
I am delurking here to tell omnis that I had to laugh at his passive aggressive not signing of his contract to protest, because I do that to at the theater I work in! I thought I was the only one. I am protesting the workload expected for the crappy pay, but same difference, and they always pay me!
Me! Good to know I'm not alone in my P/A'ness. Or alone in my grrrr at theaters. Misery does love some company. why? WHY?! Why do I keep working in the field? I like it, but can't for the life of me think of what else to do. I think office work would cause a flatened forehead from repetitive banging of said on desk.
:: raises glass to Sophia, and all others overworked/underpaid, whether theater or otherwise ::
flea - Sep 14, 2007 10:43:51 am PDT #5629 of 10001
information libertarian
Casper's friend Ellen was visiting this summer and mr. flea was lifting her into a swing. She said to him, "I'm heavy because I'm fat." She's 4 (and squarely built, but not fat). I know her mother isn't giving her that message; it's her grandmother. So sad. FOUR.
Vortex - Sep 14, 2007 10:46:05 am PDT #5630 of 10001
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
He refers to the 3 year-old as "Gordis" which I think could best be translated as "fatty". DH asked why he called her that and FIL said, "Well, you know she's sort of heavy."
ugh. My bro and SIL call my niece "fatty" or "fattycakes", not because she's particularly heavy, it's just a bad habit they got into when she was a super chubby baby. I keep telling him (and her, who is a sociologist and should know better) that it has a good chance of giving her a complex later and they need to come up with something else. But, no one listens to me.
BigDuluth - Sep 14, 2007 10:47:11 am PDT #5631 of 10001
"I am the all-singing, all-dancing crap of the world"
Casper's friend Ellen was visiting this summer and mr. flea was lifting her into a swing. She said to him, "I'm heavy because I'm fat." She's 4 (and squarely built, but not fat). I know her mother isn't giving her that message; it's her grandmother. So sad. FOUR.Where on earth is old Biff Tannen with that metal fist handled walking stick when you need him.