So, how was your summer? Mine was fun. Saw some fish. Went mad with hunger. Hallucinated a whole bunch.

Angel ,'Conviction (1)'


Spike's Bitches 39: Cuppa Tea, Cuppa Tea, Almost Got Shagged, Cuppa Tea...  

[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.


vw bug - Dec 30, 2007 5:42:35 am PST #142 of 10001
Mostly lurking...

I'd have to pay extra for it. And I really don't want Omaha Steaks and other random people just being directly forwarded to my cell, which will actually have a message saying that I'm out of town and only returning urgent calls.


Laura - Dec 30, 2007 5:45:37 am PST #143 of 10001
Our wings are not tired.

I agree with Anne. Please call my cell, no explanation. People that matter know you are out of town, others don't need to know.


Ginger - Dec 30, 2007 5:51:11 am PST #144 of 10001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda

There are no circumstances under which your father thinks a lie is acceptable, vw? Does he go around telling women that their dresses make their butts look fat?

I think lying to protect life and property is perfectly okay. You don't want to tempt burglars to sin, do you?


Trudy Booth - Dec 30, 2007 5:52:09 am PST #145 of 10001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart

Most of those sales calls are automatic anyway. They're not hearing what you say on the message. And anybody who knows you would likely call your cell if the couldn't reach you at home, right?


Hil R. - Dec 30, 2007 5:53:06 am PST #146 of 10001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

Just leave a message saying that if someone needs to reach you quickly, call your cell number. No need for an explanation.

This.

Sorting through my grandfather's photos is interesting. His filing system consisted of little wax paper bags and cigar boxes. And he took pictures of everything. So I've got one cigar box of pictures of protests, with each protest in a separate little wax paper bag. Another of vacations on the east coast, with each vacation in a separate bag. Yet another cigar box of vacations to places that didn't have oceans. One entire box of pictures that he took of the TV screen when interesting people were on. A box that seems to contain every article from every NY English and German newspaper about the liberation of Buchenwald.

It makes for interesting browsing. And for the vacation pictures, he always sorted the pictures of people from the pictures of places. However, if I'm looking for something specific (like, right now, some photos of a family vacation in the thirties that I know I saw last time I looked through these), I have no idea where to start.


vw bug - Dec 30, 2007 6:09:17 am PST #147 of 10001
Mostly lurking...

Thanks for the advice, guys.

In I-love-my-life news, I just looked up the books I'll need for Spring, and they total $29.95. Cheapest semester yet!


Fay - Dec 30, 2007 6:36:09 am PST #148 of 10001
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.

Apparently the people I live with don't own a coffee pot. How am I supposed to go 17 days with no coffee???

In Britain, people mostly drink instant. Even if there's a working coffee pot sitting around, in many cases. We haven't really grasped coffee as a concept. My Mum does like "proper coffee", but my Dad won't touch it. Meanwhile in Bangkok I have a coffee maker and my blender has a coffee grinder attachment, so I'm all coffeed up; however, at work there's only a kettle & instant coffee. I therefore have one of those mini one person cafetiere things, from Starbucks (this is a French press, right?), and so I keep a stash of ground coffee in the fridge at work and make my own coffee that way, one cup at a time. I would recommend it.

Also, I agree with Hil and Anne that brevity of phone message is the way to go.

Just been to the Yorkshire Sculpture Park with my parents for a nice bracing walk - it's remarkable how mild the weather is (but still much colder than Bangkok, obviously. Duh). Tomorrow I'm heading down to London to spend New Year with a good friend who is, happily, no longer living in Pakistan.


Fay - Dec 30, 2007 6:36:11 am PST #149 of 10001
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.

...apparently I have hiccups. Sorry about that.

t /embarrassed


SonusExMachina - Dec 30, 2007 7:38:41 am PST #150 of 10001
BOOK: "River..? Please, why don't you come on out..." RIVER: "No. Can't. Too much hair." - 'Jaynestown'

Coffee.

I am: At home in MI, waiting for my parents to return from church so we can go out for brunch. Looking at Craig's List for a new apartment in CA. Bemoaning the real estate/rental market vs. my measly income. Envying my little sister and brother-in-law who are about to purchase their first home back here in MI. Also bemoaning my career choice which has made visits with my dear family so terribly infrequent.

I'm hungry, but am waiting for the parents to return so we can get brunch and talk...


Hil R. - Dec 30, 2007 9:03:45 am PST #151 of 10001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

I baked rum cookies. They are yum. And I must resist eating them now, because they're for a party tomorrow night. (I ate one, just to make sure they turned out OK. No more now.)