Well, then, this is a day I'll feel good to be me.

Mal ,'Trash'


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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.


Dana - Apr 02, 2008 6:54:05 am PDT #8890 of 10001
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."

The only surgery I've ever had was oral.

That's what she said!


Emily - Apr 02, 2008 6:54:26 am PDT #8891 of 10001
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola

You know, if it was a couple of students, I'd think, Wow, serious disturbance going on there, but nine? Okay, I don't really think all nine took it seriously, but it still makes me go, Whaaa?


msbelle - Apr 02, 2008 6:57:12 am PDT #8892 of 10001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

kids are scary. especially in packs.


msbelle - Apr 02, 2008 6:59:03 am PDT #8893 of 10001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

re: taxes - and how am I getting refunded MORE than was withheld?

I need to adjust my W-4 to stop this, I want my money throughout the year instead of a refund. No idea how. I am asking my tax guy, I figure I pay him so I should use him for crap like this.

ETA - MORE allowance will lower withholding - check.


bon bon - Apr 02, 2008 7:06:20 am PDT #8894 of 10001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.

I had a professor of ethics in college. She is at a different school now, but is a leading philosopher of moral theory. Her mother is a peace activist and philosopher of ethics and her grandparents are Nobel laureates. Her father was president at Harvard. And in the third grade, she brought windex to school in a plan to poison her teacher. Little kids are immoral little beasts.


§ ita § - Apr 02, 2008 7:09:55 am PDT #8895 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I watched a nature show over the weekend that praised the human animal at all stages of development for its ability to cooperate when there's nothing in it for them--separates us from the apes, it does.

I've met kids. I remain unconvinced.


brenda m - Apr 02, 2008 7:11:27 am PDT #8896 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

Did I ever tell the story about my dog barking up a storm so that we'd come and let the other dog in?


sarameg - Apr 02, 2008 7:11:27 am PDT #8897 of 10001

I have a bad feeling about today.


lisah - Apr 02, 2008 7:11:43 am PDT #8898 of 10001
Punishingly Intricate

I've met kids. I remain unconvinced.

But, that's the bright spot in that story! Those kids were cooperating.

Cooperating to do evil but still!


amych - Apr 02, 2008 7:12:24 am PDT #8899 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

MORE allowance will lower withholding - check.

Dude. Do you know how many years I have tried to figure that out? I always say to myself, "self, you ought to do something more productive with that money throughout the year rather than waiting on a refund", and then I dig up a form and it says nothing - NOTHING - about what messing with the "or enter some other random number" would actually do.

And then I forget about it until the next year instead of asking someone, which, you know, my issue. But. Would it absolutely kill them to say on the form "deduct more" or "deduct less"?