Um, well, we listened to aggressively cheerful music sung by people chosen for their ability to dance. Then we ate cookie dough, and talked about boys.

Giles ,'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.


lisah - Feb 07, 2008 10:11:13 am PST #8151 of 10001
Punishingly Intricate

I stayed home today so I could sleep until noon. Because I didn't sleep for more than about 2 hours straight last night and I was so freaking groggy. But I am going to a 4 pm yoga class so i won't be a complete slug today.

I really want the Lasik surgery. But I don't know if it would be possible to correct my vision and I can't really justify it unless insurance paid.


Matt the Bruins fan - Feb 07, 2008 10:15:20 am PST #8152 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand

Huh. Randy Quaid is a douchebag. Who knew?

I did. He sued Focus Features for $13 million because they "tricked him" into being in Brokeback Mountain by misrepresenting it as an art house movie that probably wouldn't be seen by many people. After all, who wouldn't have predicted that an indie flick about gay cowboys in love would rake in $200 million at the box office?


bon bon - Feb 07, 2008 10:15:55 am PST #8153 of 10001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.

Exciting! Did you wear glasses all the time? I ask because I don't necessarily picture you wearing glasses, but I could just be on crack.

I do wear them all the time (no contacts), but I also never remember if someone else wears glasses. Someone was bitching at me last week that this will really change my "look" (that person is also insane) but I don't think that many people will notice that I don't wear them anymore.


Steph L. - Feb 07, 2008 10:24:04 am PST #8154 of 10001
I look more rad than Lutheranism

Interesting analysis of the WWII-era Minnesota Starvation Study, thought of it in context of our Pollen-inspired discussion of the other day:

I love Junkfood Science. Sandy kicks serious ass.

I'm home from work with both a stomach-ick-type thing AND a migraine. Unfair! As a result, I have about a thousand different drugs in my body right now.

Or, okay, maybe just 4. But that's still a lot.


Cashmere - Feb 07, 2008 10:24:25 am PST #8155 of 10001
Now tagless for your comfort.

I really want the Lasik surgery. But I don't know if it would be possible to correct my vision and I can't really justify it unless insurance paid.

I was buying one pair of glasses every year at around $300 pop--which weren't covered by insurance. We used a flex spending plan for the LASIK, which was $2K. After 10 years without needing glasses (or prescription sunglasses or contacts) I think I'm ahead.

The consults to tell if you're a candidate should be free.


Jesse - Feb 07, 2008 10:26:29 am PST #8156 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I do wear them all the time (no contacts), but I also never remember if someone else wears glasses.

Huh! I'm sure I will notice when I see you. But then, I'm also the person who notices people's haircuts a week later....


askye - Feb 07, 2008 10:27:33 am PST #8157 of 10001
Thrive to spite them

I knew Randy Quaid was a dick for the same reason Matt did. I think I also read something else about him acting batshit insane in another instance.


Jesse - Feb 07, 2008 10:28:29 am PST #8158 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I was buying one pair of glasses every year at around $300 pop--which weren't covered by insurance. We used a flex spending plan for the LASIK, which was $2K. After 10 years without needing glasses (or prescription sunglasses or contacts) I think I'm ahead.

Yeah, I don't buy glasses every year, but it's still a financially sound decision -- if I won't need glasses again before I'm in my 50s. I assume I'd need to get glasses again around the time my parents went to bifocals, right?


meara - Feb 07, 2008 10:36:05 am PST #8159 of 10001

lisa, how bad is your vision? Even if it's reallllly bad (I'm a -13!) there are other things you can get besides lasik. Though they're even more expensive, which doesn't solve your other problem. :)

I've had good and bad experiences in Sephora. Usually they ignore me (or eye me suspiciously), but I had a really good experience one time with a gayboy in Georgetown who ran all over the store putting lipgloss on his hand to find me just the right color.


§ ita § - Feb 07, 2008 10:39:46 am PST #8160 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I need to remember to buy glasses every year, because they are covered mostly by insurance. But I forget because I only wear them for close work.

I stand behind my suggestion that $70 in unappealing tights is better than having your LEG EXPLODE.

The tights look just fine. They're just expensive as hell (the ones that were probably the right constriction were $150). Oh, and putting them on was tiring and very painful. I see the doc Friday. I hope he'll have a fixy thing.