Yes, it's terribly simple. The good guys are always stalwart and true, the bad guys are easily distinguished by their pointy horns or black hats, and, uh, we always defeat them and save the day. No one ever dies, and everybody lives happily ever after.

Giles ,'Conversations with Dead People'


Spike's Bitches 40: Buckle Up, Kids! Daddy's Puttin' the Hammer Down.  

[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.


javachik - Apr 01, 2008 4:22:07 pm PDT #2786 of 10001
Our wings are not tired.

Aww. In your mind, what are they thinking? Cause personally, I'm probably going "Huh. Crutches. Or not crutches, those other things. Wonder what she's got? How would I do if I were on crutches? Eesh, I hadn't realized there were so many stairs here, that sucks...stairs, stairs, I should go to the gym..." all while staring blankly towards you. Sorry!

Meara is me. Add, also, "wow, those would come in handy when I really want to thwap something from five feet away and my ass is planted on the couch."


-t - Apr 01, 2008 4:23:48 pm PDT #2787 of 10001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Glad you are on the mend, Susan. I always find that period of being ill when I am not feeling as bad as I had but I am not yet well to be somewhat demoralizing. Like I have the energy to notice what's wrong or needs doing, but not the energy to fix or do.

Sparrow is no longer in the spot I left it. I assume it has recovered enough to be hopping around with its cohort.


Fay - Apr 01, 2008 4:30:31 pm PDT #2788 of 10001
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.

{{{{Jen}}}} As someone with several dedicated nurses in her extended family, I can't tell you how much I agree. Nursing is so important and so misunderstood.

I think people's general impression of what teachers do is similarly screwed up, but I think nurses get the worst rap of all.

Kristin SO speaks for me here. (fwiw, the fella I like most on OKCupid got way more brownie points from me for being a nurse than he would have for being a doctor.)


Scrappy - Apr 01, 2008 4:32:11 pm PDT #2789 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

Do you think people are thinking negatively about you because you have crutches? What do you think is going through their minds? I am not trying to put you on the spot, just wondering. I think 95% of them are pretty much thinking what Meara said. And the other 5% are assholes who would think something negative no matter you looked/walked/dressed/were like.


Laga - Apr 01, 2008 4:34:19 pm PDT #2790 of 10001
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.

Mom says sister says asshat is moving out tonight. I'm waiting for further information.


Fay - Apr 01, 2008 4:41:31 pm PDT #2791 of 10001
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.

Mom says sister says asshat is moving out tonight.

Yay! Hope the door bangs him on the hat as he leaves!


DavidS - Apr 01, 2008 5:05:38 pm PDT #2792 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

After coming back from rotator cuff surgery this season, Pedro Martinez went 4⅓ innings today before going back on the DL.

Fuck!

Good news for Braves fans, though.

Susan, I'll just note that you have really disliked almost all of your dayjobs. You like a lot of autonomy and that's hard to come by with a middle level job. It's the sort of thing that tends to happen by accident on an org-chart rather than by design. You have strong issues with authority and those issues ping on you in a variety of ways. I think the satisfactory dayjob is going to be elusive for you.


Laga - Apr 01, 2008 5:06:31 pm PDT #2793 of 10001
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.

I left a (unfortunately drunken) message on her cell letting her know if she needs anything to call me. If I had known this was going to happen tonight I wouldn't have started drinking at 4.


Susan W. - Apr 01, 2008 5:13:47 pm PDT #2794 of 10001
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights

Susan, I'll just note that you have really disliked almost all of your dayjobs. You like a lot of autonomy and that's hard to come by with a middle level job. It's the sort of thing that tends to happen by accident on an org-chart rather than by design. You have strong issues with authority and those issues ping on you in a variety of ways. I think the satisfactory dayjob is going to be elusive for you.

Well...agreed, but in saying that do you have any ideas for what I can do about it, other than accepting unhappiness and/or trying to catch lightning in a bottle in the form of a bestseller?


Stephanie - Apr 01, 2008 5:14:01 pm PDT #2795 of 10001
Trust my rage

Cash, I can't copy and paste but I was seriously thinking about coming to visit but the car I'm driving is not very safe or reliable and I just shortened my trip by a week. Still, it would have been lots of fun.