Illyria: We cling to what is gone. Is there anything in this life but grief? Wesley: There's love. There's hope...for some. There's hope that you'll find something worthy...that your life will lead you to some joy...that after everything...you can still be surprised. Illyria: Is that enough? Is that enough to live on?

'Shells'


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.


JZ - Apr 24, 2008 8:18:44 am PDT #6269 of 10001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.

Dare sounds great to me.

The hands-down absolutely prettiest name I know, belonging to a Faire friend of mine, is Aurora Jude.

The one girl name I loved as much as Matilda was Memorie, my maternal grandmother's name (my grandfather and one or two other select persons called her Mem), but Hec sincerely disliked it. I really, really hope one of my sibs or cousins uses it for a sprog, because it's lovely and unusual and my grandmother was a striking, complicated person and I'd hate to think of her name vanishing away.


beekaytee - Apr 24, 2008 8:18:52 am PDT #6270 of 10001
Compassionately intolerant

my organization feels the need to have these on the weekend.

Shows a lack of commitment to the cause. If it is important enough to get people together to make change, it is important enough to schedule during work days. Or, at the very, very least, give comp days in return.


Glamcookie - Apr 24, 2008 8:19:40 am PDT #6271 of 10001
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister

Memorie is very pretty.


beekaytee - Apr 24, 2008 8:20:38 am PDT #6272 of 10001
Compassionately intolerant

Memorie is very pretty.

Very. I've never heard that.


Toddson - Apr 24, 2008 8:21:21 am PDT #6273 of 10001
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"

Place I used to work insisted on having their annual picnic on a Saturday. In the middle of the summer, when it's really, really, hot and humid. ALWAYS some place waaaay out of town. Wouldn't help those of us without cars get rides to the place. And they'd last almost all day.

I finally stopped going. Didn't make me look good to management, but I just got fed up with losing a day to that nonsense.


Aims - Apr 24, 2008 8:22:20 am PDT #6274 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.

I've found it's hard to top Emeline (the name, though topping the kid will be difficult also). People compliment us a lot on it. I'm afraid that the next one will have a "boring" name.


Susan W. - Apr 24, 2008 8:24:35 am PDT #6275 of 10001
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights

Memorie is pretty, though it's not enough in my personal style family that I'd use it. (That style being, more or less, "Child wouldn't sound out of place as a character in one of my books." Which is also why I prefer Edmund Patrick or Edmund Arthur to Brendan Edmund. Brendan is a fine name, but it doesn't sound turn-of-the-19th century British enough!) It reminds me of friends of DH's who named their daughter Ever after a great-grandmother. We'd never heard of it, but then found an Ever who's probably a great-great aunt or something of mine in the cemetery where my dad is buried.


Hil R. - Apr 24, 2008 8:54:45 am PDT #6276 of 10001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

My great-grandmother was named Esther and called Stella. I kind of like that, though I also like Estie as a nickname. (It is very certain in my mind that my first daughter will be named Esther. If the child's father seriously objects to this, I'd possibly be willing to compromise to either Ella or Elizabeth, with Esther as the Hebrew name.)


sj - Apr 24, 2008 8:55:03 am PDT #6277 of 10001
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."

Baby names! So much fun. TCG and I agreed on baby names ages ago when we first started dating.

I just spent three hours at the doctors office trying to get some relief for my stomach pain. Nothing serious seems to be wrong, but I didn't get any good answers or good drugs. I did get a new perscription for my adderall. I can't believe I have to physically pick up a new perscription from my doctor each month. So, of course, I've been without it for a while.


Steph L. - Apr 24, 2008 9:00:11 am PDT #6278 of 10001
I look more rad than Lutheranism

I did get a new perscription for my adderall. I can't believe I have to physically pick up a new perscription from my doctor each month.

It's because it's amphetamine, and having refills on it could lead you to selling your pharmaceutical-grade speed to high-school students.

No, that really IS the reasoning behind only prescribing one month at a time, and it's fucking ridiculous.

t /dates an ADDer