Poor Devi.
You can borrow my kids whenever you'd like.
I'm testdriving the Busy Body Calendar which I surprisingly like! But it's making me tired to schedule my family + figuring out dinner menus in advance.
I know I'm a bad poet, but I'm a good man. All I ask is that... is that you try to see me—
William ,'Conversations with Dead People'
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.
Kat - Jan 03, 2008 5:14:27 pm PST #769 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
sarameg - Jan 03, 2008 5:18:35 pm PST #770 of 10001
Heh. At least I wouldn't have to tell a ped "She's being less of a bitch. That's how I know something is wrong."
DavidS - Jan 03, 2008 5:23:32 pm PST #771 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Happy birthday, Shrift! I wish you good health all year.
I'd vote for Edwards of the three. Hilary's been too busy triangulating to stand for anything, and I don't think Barack has actually accomplished anything yet.
sarameg - Jan 03, 2008 5:48:16 pm PST #772 of 10001
This is going to out me as a freak: when I was wee, I used to be soothed by pressing my ear to mom's tummy and listening to it gurgle (tummies are really noisy!) I don't know exactly when I did this, but it was probably around my brother's birth and shortly thereafter.
Anyway, I've fallen asleep on MK's tummy several times as an adult. Which is bizarro. And now poor Devi, with her digestive issues, is getting the treatment. Except I don't know what is normal! But the gurglies are weirdly soothing. Odd, that.
JenP - Jan 03, 2008 6:00:41 pm PST #773 of 10001
Happy Birthday, shrift!
billytea - Jan 03, 2008 6:01:15 pm PST #774 of 10001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Hey, remind me, are the Primaries all-or-nothing at the state level like the actual election (excepting Maine and Nebraska)? Or do the reps get parcelled out proportionally within each state?
-t - Jan 03, 2008 6:04:26 pm PST #775 of 10001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
It depends on the state. I think. Seems to me the reps can change their minds and swing their votes to someone else at the conventions. But I may be overstating the arbitrariness.
billytea - Jan 03, 2008 6:12:37 pm PST #776 of 10001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
It depends on the state. I think. Seems to me the reps can change their minds and swing their votes to someone else at the conventions. But I may be overstating the arbitrariness.
Yeah, most of what I understand about the process comes from watching the end of S6 of the West Wing.
sarameg - Jan 03, 2008 6:13:20 pm PST #777 of 10001
Ah, fuck me. An apt complex across the street has had a rash of arsons today. 5 individual fires set. Mind you, my complex, in the past few years, has had the leasing office arsoned twice, plus assorted unexplained apt fires (I cornered a cop at one of them and he told me the suspected it was a serial arsonist.)
Freaks me the hell out.
I had my neighbor's home burnt when I was a teen, due to some fucktard arsonist never caught. I've had accidental fires. It freaks me the fuck out. ( repeating that...) I'm gone 10 hours a day, with all that is precious to me here. IT REALLY FREAKS ME OUT.
Susan W. - Jan 03, 2008 6:15:46 pm PST #778 of 10001
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
On a mostly shallow note, I've been listening to the speeches, and regardless of who ultimately comes out on top, it's going to be SO nice to have a grammatical, articulate president again.