TAL lovers! I just listened to a totally entertaining podcast interview with Ira Glass! It's here: [link] (also on iTunes). I knew I had to pass it on when he analogized his reporting style to X-Files 'shippers. I am totally going to buy his book now.
Buckle up, kids! Daddy's puttin' the hammer down.
Spike ,'Touched'
Natter 55: It's the 55th Natter
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.
bon bon - Nov 14, 2007 4:41:47 pm PST #2330 of 10001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
Jesse - Nov 14, 2007 4:49:09 pm PST #2331 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Fun!
In fancy phone news, it turns out it's discontinued or whatever -- I went to the store and they said they haven't sold them in a couple of months. So I ordered it online for free! Plus $15 shipping. Eh.
Jesse - Nov 14, 2007 4:59:32 pm PST #2332 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Criminal Minds: HMOG!! I was afraid of something like that. I did love Garcia's like something like, "I do just fine... it just takes them a minute."
sarameg - Nov 14, 2007 5:10:46 pm PST #2333 of 10001
OK, I need a reality check. Installation went bad at 3. I ran my stuff that bore that out. They promised me an hour. I had an appointment to something completely frivolous, 6 weeks in the making (haircut.) When at 5, there was no resolution, I bailed. Had I not had the appt, I would have stuck around. I don't have home access. Should I have stuck around and not slopped the tests onto someone else?
Part of this angst is that this is the first install in my new position and I hated that I bailed. At the same time, if it weren't something frivolous, like I had kids to pick up or a parent to take to the doctor (a case this evening), it would be considered reasonable. But you know, it's my life and time too.
I think this is the first time I've really run into my expected uber-avail as a single person.
eta: it's apparent I want to be in the right. But I may not be.
Jesse - Nov 14, 2007 5:15:18 pm PST #2334 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I've been having conversations about this recently. If you have to go, you have to go, no matter what for. You planned accordingly -- thing at 3, an hour to deal, one more hour after that -- right?
Cashmere - Nov 14, 2007 5:22:14 pm PST #2335 of 10001
Now tagless for your comfort.
ita, I hope the new specialist can actually help you.
sarameg - Nov 14, 2007 5:23:45 pm PST #2336 of 10001
I keep rationalizing as a business agreement. Had I cancelled, the business would be out $60 I contracted with them. (Hell, that's more than I'd make in those 2 hours I was absent work.) Even if it was only an appointment, not a contract. And I got something out of it. Erm.
When I made the appt, the stupid install was not on the schedule.
-t - Nov 14, 2007 5:43:21 pm PST #2337 of 10001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
You were right to bail, sarameg. Work does not own you, and they don't even hold the lease after 5.
Good luck with the new specialist, ita.
Cashmere - Nov 14, 2007 5:50:20 pm PST #2338 of 10001
Now tagless for your comfort.
Heidi Klum was tying her baby's diaper on with string because she didn't know how to work the tabs. Britney Spears helped her figure it out.
Jesse - Nov 14, 2007 5:54:43 pm PST #2339 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I just watched that -- you've got to see the clip. She was laughing really hard, and it was right after she was saying how Britney wasn't invited to her Halloween party, but was there anyway. Hilarious.