Having some kind of "We fucked up, we're really sorry about it" ceremony isn't the weird part. Germany does that all the time. It's inviting the descendants of the victims back that seems weird. I mean, I'm trying to imagine, if he did go, what the mayor or anyone else in the town would say to him. "Sorry our grandparents broke your grandfather's restaurant"? "Good thing your mother got out in time"?
Sometimes I miss having powers... Oh. Oh! I know what this is! This is peer pressure! Any second now you're gonna make me smoke tobacco and--and have drugs!
Anya ,'Showtime'
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.
Hil R. - Mar 11, 2008 11:05:42 pm PDT #9592 of 10001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Fay - Mar 11, 2008 11:49:42 pm PDT #9593 of 10001
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
Good grief, Hil.
Hil R. - Mar 12, 2008 12:03:08 am PDT #9594 of 10001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
I remember reading that the city of Berlin has a thing each year where they invite any former Jewish residents (and anyone else persecuted by the Nazis, I suppose) of Berlin back to the city, and the city pays for all the travel expences and has some kind of ceremony for them. Aschaffenburg is a much smaller city, so I guess they just do it for anniversaries? I can't recall hearing about this on any other anniversary, but the last multiple-of-ten year one, my grandmother was still alive, so the letter would have gone to her, so I might not have heard about it.
Miracleman - Mar 12, 2008 3:15:16 am PDT #9595 of 10001
No, I don't think I will - me, quoting Captain Steve Rogers, to all of 2020
O ya, MM, saw a great license plate this morning, and was hoping it was you moved back to LA. It read "KRP2NYT"
BWAH! That's awesome.
I think if we move back to L.A...so tempting...I would try to get a vanity plate that said "MRCLMAN".
Assuming I could get my license back.
Vortex - Mar 12, 2008 3:49:52 am PDT #9596 of 10001
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
urgh. Sitting in the dealership waiting to hear about my car. Fucking coolant light came on four months after it was in for service. I'm v. Annoyed.
Emily - Mar 12, 2008 3:53:34 am PDT #9597 of 10001
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
In a followup to Cambridge sending me a notice about my apparently-still-existent application, Boston University Upward Bound would like me to know they have a math position open this summer.
This wouldn't seem so strange to me if I'd gotten any of these emails last summer, but they seem to have skipped a year.
Aims - Mar 12, 2008 3:54:58 am PDT #9598 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Maybe they truly had a Leap Year.
vw bug - Mar 12, 2008 3:59:45 am PDT #9599 of 10001
Mostly lurking...
I need to quit writing important things on PostIt notes, because they seem to like to disappear. grrrr.
Emily - Mar 12, 2008 4:02:36 am PDT #9600 of 10001
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
I myself need to stop a) downloading new games and playing them obsessively, b) getting up late, or c) getting on the computer before leaving for work. Cutting out any one of those might enable me to get to work on time (well, a only inasmuch as it might let me stop doing b).
vw bug - Mar 12, 2008 4:05:39 am PDT #9601 of 10001
Mostly lurking...
c) getting on the computer before leaving for work
Relatedly, I also need to stop convincing myself that I can stop working in the evenings, because I will finish up my to do list in the morning before getting to school, etc. Because, well, it just never happens. It used to, but not right now. I have the hardest time pulling my ass out of bed in the morning...even when I get like 12 hours of sleep. Stupid mono.