See, Laura gets it.
Tara: Do you have any books on robots? Giles: Oh, yes, dozens. There's a lot of research to be done in order to--no, I'm lying. Haven't got squat. I just like watching Xander squirm.
'Get It Done'
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.
Lee - Jan 11, 2008 6:17:56 pm PST #2715 of 10001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
-t - Jan 11, 2008 6:39:16 pm PST #2716 of 10001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
That is ingenious, meara.
I will add this to my list of reasons to visit Seattle.
-t - Jan 11, 2008 6:42:05 pm PST #2717 of 10001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
That week is too hard, brenda. I think project 4 may need to be interspersed with the other projects for retention of sanity.
tommyrot - Jan 11, 2008 7:36:05 pm PST #2718 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Bad fiction contest winners: [link]
This is the "Vile Puns" winner:
I was in a back alley in Fiji, fighting desperately and silently for my life, fighting desperately for oxygen, clawing at the calm and almost gentle pressure of the fabric held over my face by implacable, ebony thighs when I realized -- he was killing me softly with his sarong.
This one (in the "Purple Prose" category) is good:
She had curves that just wouldn't quit, like on one of those car commercials where a stunt driver slides a sexy new sports car around hairpin turn after hairpin turn while some poor musician, down on his luck and having been forced to sell out his dream of superstardom for a lousy 30-second ad jingle, sings "Zoom, zoom, zoom" in the background.
Burrell - Jan 11, 2008 7:41:25 pm PST #2719 of 10001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
I have a lot of research to do to figure out if I can afford to work at a place like USC, though. I'm unsure of the pay range for administrative staffers.
One thing about USC is excellent benefits. Another thing is that I would be able to have lunch with you once in a while.
ita, there is yummy--and cheap!--pho in your old neighb on SM Blvd. Mmm, now I want pho, except my body is having some weird water-retention thing going on and I suspect it may be the won ton soup I had yesterday.
msbelle - Jan 12, 2008 4:39:13 am PST #2720 of 10001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
the sick did not leave overnight. shocking. so I am still a giant snot monster, the throat is sore and the glands at the very back of jaw kinda under my ears are sore as hell - I think this means infection. I have flushed the sinuses - ugh - and taken both cold medicine and expectorant and am sucking down the nast zinc losenges since they make the throat tolerable. in 20 min I have to head out to the Y, I am dreading outside. Working out while mac is in class is right out, so I guess I'll take a book, but I bet I fall asleep.
Kat - Jan 12, 2008 5:14:03 am PST #2721 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
oh msbelle. you poor thing. snot monstering is no fun. Can you sit in a steam bath at the Y? Might that help?
Jesse - Jan 12, 2008 5:18:07 am PST #2722 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I think my cold is progressing -- I seem to be able to breathe through my nose, drug free, but I keep coughing up globs of nast. That's good, right??
Theodosia - Jan 12, 2008 5:19:01 am PST #2723 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"
Eeek, msbelle. It sounds more and more like a throat infection rather than just a cold. Warm salt water gargles?
I'm currently in class, although today is a work day, so I can goof off from time to time when I need a break....
§ ita § - Jan 12, 2008 5:41:08 am PST #2724 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
In a miracle of miracles, with friends and coworkers and even my sister staying over being hosts to snot monsters I've been spared so far. I lose my voice from time to time with an uncomfortable to painful sore throat, but that's it.
Much sympathies to you, msbelle. I'd go ahead and sleep at the Y. It's not like sleeping ever made a cold worse, or anything.
Burrell, you don't happen to remember the name of the place, do you?