These girls have the most beautiful dresses. And so do I -- how about that?

Kaylee ,'Shindig'


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.


tommyrot - Oct 11, 2007 10:58:51 am PDT #6175 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.

Looks like.

I put a bandaid on - the bleeding stopped, then started up again but now it's stopped again.


Kathy A - Oct 11, 2007 10:59:30 am PDT #6176 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil

Can you stop the bleeding?

At this point, exactly. If I can't stop the bleeding after applying pressure for some time, then it's off to the doctor's/ER with me.


Jesse - Oct 11, 2007 10:59:43 am PDT #6177 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

When I gouged my finger (with a butter knife, trying to open a frozen bagel), it took all day to stop bleeding, and in the evening they told me I could have gotten stiches in the morning, but it was too late by then. It was pretty deep, but not bone deep -- right on the 'should I go to the doctor?' borderline.


Hil R. - Oct 11, 2007 11:02:14 am PDT #6178 of 10001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

The students at - Georgetown, I think it is - are all up in arms because of new rules to cut back on the amount of drinking. The latest "outrage" is that they've instituted a $200 fine for anyone who throws up on the bus. (This is a shuttle to another college and, late at night, there's only one bus and if someone gets sick, the driver has to stop, get everyone off, call for alternate transportation, then either clean up the bus or get it to the garage to be cleaned.)

That's at GW, not Georgetown. The shuttle goes between the two GW campuses. (There's the main Foggy Bottom campus, and then also the campus that used to be Mount Vernon College, where there are some overflow classrooms and dorms. The problem is mostly from students who live at Mount Vernon going to parties near the main campus and then going home late.) Most of the students interviewed by the campus newspaper said that they thought the fine was a good idea, because people throwing up on the bus is gross.

The Georgetown mention reminded me of another Georgetown story, though. There was a townhouse where a bunch of Georgetown students were living. They had more people there than the occupancy codes allowed, and they were called on it. They researched and found out that the occupancy laws don't apply to religious organizations, so they declared themselves a church. The parents quoted in the articles about it were horrifying -- basically, "It's not fair that the city of Washington is trying to make my son obey the law." There had been a ton of noise complaints about them from neighbors -- I suspect that if the students had been relatively good neighbors, no one would have complained about there being too many people in the house.


tommyrot - Oct 11, 2007 11:02:17 am PDT #6179 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.

I was trying to get a stuck tail light out of my car - I was pushing it pretty hard when it just shattered.

I gotta leave for Madison in a few minutes. So far, bleeding has not resumed....


lisah - Oct 11, 2007 11:06:28 am PDT #6180 of 10001
Punishingly Intricate

When I gouged my finger (with a butter knife, trying to open a frozen bagel), it took all day to stop bleeding, and in the evening they told me I could have gotten stiches in the morning, but it was too late by then.

Oh yeah same thing happened to me when I cut my finger trying to open a container of hummus. I was hostessing a party so No Time for ER! eh. it was fine.

And I did it again recently on a broken glass.


tommyrot - Oct 11, 2007 11:07:51 am PDT #6181 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.

OK, see y'all later!!


erikaj - Oct 11, 2007 11:08:19 am PDT #6182 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!

The Golden Notebook is really good.I was too young for it, probably, but spent my late teens very "I Know My ForeMothers...ask me how!" and read a lot of feminism's greatest hits(The Women's Room being my biggest favorite. Or Germaine Greer.)


Susan W. - Oct 11, 2007 11:08:40 am PDT #6183 of 10001
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights

I couldn't find that douche's age anywhere, so I'm afraid I went to college with him.

I was thinking the exact same thing!


Kathy A - Oct 11, 2007 11:10:49 am PDT #6184 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil

The Cats Are Evolving!! So get ready to say hello to your new kitten overlords, complete with thumbs (they might not be opposable yet, but just wait a few mutations...).