I go online sometimes, but everyone's spelling is really bad. It's... depressing.

Tara ,'Get It Done'


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.


§ ita § - Sep 14, 2007 8:05:13 pm PDT #765 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Okay, this Gabrielle Anwar is so much prettier than this Gabrielle Anwar. And that's a really flattering picture of what she looks like these days.

Interesting seeing her in an opposite Lucy Lawless. Lucy's huge and I mean that in TV terms too. You can see the shape of her abdomen through one of her tops, and it's there. Her abdomen, I mean. Gabrielle doesn't have flesh in all those places.


Scrappy - Sep 14, 2007 8:10:13 pm PDT #766 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

Erika--didn't you get several pieces published this year? I think that totally counts. I meant to finish my play this year, yet still stalled in Act One.


erikaj - Sep 14, 2007 8:17:02 pm PDT #767 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!

There were a couple this year, at that. No disrespect to Corwood and his bunkies at the Hat. I just feel like wallpaper right now.


Jars - Sep 15, 2007 12:36:01 am PDT #768 of 10001

What have you done in the last year while Matilda went from born to one?

Got married. Moved in with Boy Next Door. Got MSc. Lived in Tipperary. Lived in Northern Ireland. Lived in Edinburgh (for a month) Lived in Cork. Had three jobs. Travelled to Boston (twice).


Matt the Bruins fan - Sep 15, 2007 1:22:30 am PDT #769 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand

It's exactly the same as the people medicine, except for the dosing, apparently, but anyway, he only tasted a little, and said it was NAST.

I wouldn't worry much about nasty-tasting meds when the patient at issue will eat garbage and poop and would happily lap up antifreeze if allowed to.

The spam filter from my office's previous ISP would sometimes flag messages as spam from the two people in the company who can pink slip me, while recognizing e-mails from all my other co-workers (and various penile enlargement services). I've joked about the fax machine hating me, but at least it never actively tried to arrange a new user for itself.


Theodosia - Sep 15, 2007 2:05:22 am PDT #770 of 10001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"

As for my Matilda Year, I had too many things happen, like getting laid off, having a leisurely summer off wherein I traveled to interesting places like Wisconsin, Atlanta and Maine, then ended it in a big way by becoming a college student. And yesterday I bought a whizbang of a computer.


Nora Deirdre - Sep 15, 2007 3:35:46 am PDT #771 of 10001
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)

Didn't do anything terribly exciting in my Matilda Year; but that's not a bad. Just living is all. Got my mental health stuff kind of under control. Went to Scotland twice.

(I'm a skipper- is Matilda's birthday on the 14th or do we share a birthday today?)


Theodosia - Sep 15, 2007 3:37:11 am PDT #772 of 10001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"

Oh! Hippo Birdies, Nora!

I guess Matilda Years and Nora Years start and end nearly the same!


Nora Deirdre - Sep 15, 2007 3:42:45 am PDT #773 of 10001
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)

OK, I went back, I see where the Matilda markers are (the 26th). Now I feel guilty for pimping my birthday!

Oh! Also in my Nora/Matilda Year, I have: joined the Y, taken belly dancing classes, started swimming again, started fencing classes (that last one is just under the wire, because I just started that), lost 30 pounds, and got 20% closer to finishing my graduate degree. I also did a shitload of research that almost killed me, but I eventually conquered.

Those are the specifics of Just Livin', I suppose.


Jessica - Sep 15, 2007 4:27:09 am PDT #774 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

The Family MoonBone is in Montauk for the weekend. DH and I realized we hadn't been out of the city all summer (all 2007, I'm pretty sure!) and I was jonesing for a non-Coney Island ocean beach.

It's cool and rainy right now, but that's just fine. I can see the ocean from our motel window, and there are few things that make me feel as at peace than rain over large bodies of water. It's good for the soul.

I have a wee cold, but it seems to be responding to Tylenol. And D slept almost through the night - his first night ever away from home! After he wakes up from his nap I think we'll go for a walk on the beach.