Appropriately enough, the fifth anniversary gift is traditionally wood.
Xander: I do have Spaghetti-os. Set 'em on top of the dryer and you're a fluff cycle away from lukewarm goodness. Riley: I, uh, had dryer-food for lunch.
'Same Time, Same Place'
Natter 54: Right here, dammit.
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.
Aims - Sep 17, 2007 6:23:59 am PDT #1048 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
lori - Sep 17, 2007 6:24:39 am PDT #1049 of 10001
Happy Birthday Lee! Happy birthday Phoenix! Ah, I remember that morning well, timing my refreshes to when I thought ita would be getting up and getting the board online. Still amused that I snaked such a low user number.
Congrats on D's first roadtrip (traintrip?)! How long was the ride?
Noah should be returning from his first roadtrip today. In the meantime, I spent much of yesterday holding Grace - she seemed pretty pleased. And when I came back later to tuck her in, the nurses had already tucked her in with Thing 1.
NoiseDesign - Sep 17, 2007 6:25:06 am PDT #1050 of 10001
Our wings are not tired
We've got wood.
Lee - Sep 17, 2007 6:31:45 am PDT #1051 of 10001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Thanks for all the b-day wishes!
Love the Grace pictures!
I have a house full of sleeping buffistas, and coffee, and no work today.
YAY
Pix - Sep 17, 2007 6:32:43 am PDT #1052 of 10001
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie
Happy Birthday, Lee!
Happy Birthday, Phoenix Board!
§ ita § - Sep 17, 2007 6:32:54 am PDT #1053 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I'm so glad Grace got to spend time with you, Lori. I am just sick enough to make visiting babies a bad idea.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY LEE!
As for the board...mostly I remember the labour pains. Closest I'll get to being a mother. I'm okay with that.
Emily - Sep 17, 2007 6:42:02 am PDT #1054 of 10001
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
We have some Buffistas who were supersmart do-nothings in school, right? Anyone want to chime in with what could have motivated them? If anything?
Addendum: Thing is, I'm supposed to be teaching "workplace readiness skills" in addition to content, so I think it is important that they do even the stuff that they don't find particularly interesting. Because yes, your employer will probably ask you to submit a report at some point.
Emily - Sep 17, 2007 6:48:36 am PDT #1055 of 10001
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
Oh! And the local B&N has The Book. I mean, of course, but it was nice to see it way out here.
Jars - Sep 17, 2007 6:49:10 am PDT #1056 of 10001
The only thing that ever really motivated me in school was doing better than the smartypants I didn't like in the class, just to show her. So, competition?
In primary school literally nothing could motivate me, except interest in the subject. I even got suspended for lack of work. But then I am very lazy, and not working is much easier than working.
tommyrot - Sep 17, 2007 6:52:34 am PDT #1057 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.
We have some Buffistas who were supersmart do-nothings in school, right? Anyone want to chime in with what could have motivated them? If anything?
Yep, I was one of those "underachiever" types. Some of the time, anyway.
Math was always my best subject. Usually I enjoyed math, but often I found the homework to be so incredibly boring and tedious that I was often late with it. Like, I remember in 3rd grade having 100 questions along the line of '5 > 3 - T or F?'
By the time I got to high school (and especially college) that was much less of a problem, as by then the homework was interesting enough for me to keep my attention.