Yup. Not that I'm doubting that such a thing could happen, but this particular instance fails the sniff test for all the press it's getting.
Here is your cup of coffee. Brewed from the finest Colombian lighter fluid.
Xander ,'Chosen'
Natter 56: ...we need the writers.
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.
brenda m - Jan 11, 2008 1:06:55 pm PST #2641 of 10001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Trudy Booth - Jan 11, 2008 1:12:59 pm PST #2642 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
It SEEMS like real people in real jobs... and it is BBC.
Susan W. - Jan 11, 2008 1:28:35 pm PST #2643 of 10001
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
My induction in the early am led to a baby at about 3 in the afternoon.
Heh. My induction on Saturday led to a baby on Tuesday.
Weekend:
Tonight - go home, filled with relief that week is over. Order pizza w/ chicken & rosemary potatoes for dinner.
Saturday - haircut, lunch at place that's rumored to have chicken-fried steak that might meet DH's and my exacting Okie and Dixie standards.
Sunday - sing solo in choir at church, that is, if I don't faint from stage fright because 250 people or so per service are listening to me, just me, after which I shall kick myself around a bit, flail in self-consciousness at how reedy my voice sounds in the top half of my secure range, and vow never to sing solos again.
Scrappy - Jan 11, 2008 1:34:00 pm PST #2644 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
I bet you'll be great, Susan.
Laura - Jan 11, 2008 1:40:20 pm PST #2645 of 10001
Our wings are not tired.
It is really wonderful that you are burying the fright to sing this solo, Susan. Is this the first time doing a solo? If so it will be easier next time. It is such an honor.
Susan W. - Jan 11, 2008 1:47:28 pm PST #2646 of 10001
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
I haven't sung a solo since I was 18 or so.
And I'm not sure it counts as an honor when I volunteered to do it! I wanted to try it because it's a roots/Southern gospel piece ("Down to the River to Pray"). I figured I'm the only Southerner in the choir, I grew up on music like that in church, etc. Only I don't think I sound Southern when I sing it. Just squeaky, full of stage fright, and wishing the thing was written in A or B instead of D.
meara - Jan 11, 2008 1:53:16 pm PST #2647 of 10001
Good luck, Susan!
Weekend plans...hmmm...well, I didn't do any of the work I was supposed to, today. So, probably some of that. I'm debating if I feel up to going two-stepping tonight--I really want to, because I love it, but I'm feeling achey and slow.
And I think I need to go to the DMV and finally switch over my info, tomorrow. If I can get up in the morning. This would be one of the reasons to not go dancing tonight...
Tomorrow evening, a swing dance class, and if I can find people to go, there's a new dyke dance party (like, hip hop and pop, none of this silly actual steps business).
We'll see. I just discovered a place two blocks from me that I knew did coffee also does savory crepes. Today's special was pumpkin, sage, and chevre. It sounded yummy. I may have to try one this weekend. Possibly get some pho.
Also, I have a lot of cookies in my kitchen that I made last night and dont' want to eat by myself. Hrm.
Kat - Jan 11, 2008 2:09:34 pm PST #2648 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
I'm cooking tomorrow. Grocery shopping. Hanging with Noah and Grace. Yoga with the baby. The usual sort of weekend.
§ ita § - Jan 11, 2008 2:24:16 pm PST #2649 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Cool weekend, Kat.
I wrinkle my nose in distaste at my hot chocolate. It's chocolate syrup and hot milk. Which is too sweet. Doesn't anyone use cocoa anymore?
Jamaicans have some weird version of hot chocolate which I dearly love. Not sweet by default, and often bitter. When I was last there I asked for some at the breakfast buffet, and it turned out they were giving me the staff hot chocolate from in the back.
I'd like to cook this weekend. Maybe I'll get groceries on the way home.
But I probably won't. It'll be a win if I eat dinner period.
-t - Jan 11, 2008 2:27:49 pm PST #2650 of 10001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
So what are people doing this weekend?
I'm spinstering it this weekend - DH is off to see his mom for her birthday. Tonight I'm gonna kick back with my leftover stew and a glass of wine and relax. Sunday I'm going to San Carlos for a travel fair of some sort. I'm not sure what that's all about, but I'm taking the train there and back, so that'll be fun. tomorrow, I don't know. Maybe cleaning the bathroom and unpacking some more. Maybe I will get my ass the synagogue I keep thinking of as "mine" even though I haven't actually been there.
I got myself a bathing suit and am debating where to try to swim. there's a Y a couple of miles from my house, but I don't know if I want to join if I'm only going to swim once a week, but maybe it would make me go more often? There's a public pool a little farther away, but I believe it is closed for the winter. And about half an hour away there's a gym I know of that has a pool and daily rate of something reasonable like $6. I should probably go check them out in person rather than speculating myself to death, huh?
I'm proud of you for singing the solo, Susan. I hope you enjoy it, since you love the song.