Angel: If I'm not back in a couple of hours— Gunn: You're dead, we're screwed, end of the world.

'Underneath'


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.


omnis_audis - May 01, 2008 9:06:04 am PDT #7258 of 10001
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir

lifetime at Disneyworld!
This sounds panic inducing to me.
Like some hell induced by the SG-1 "Gamekeeper" episode in Season 2

KT, Glad to hear of optimism from Doc! Um. It still sounds like you have a lot to recoup. Take it easy. I should have this weekend off. Let me know what I can do to help.

FTR, my boss is not an asshat. I loves my boss.

ETA stupid trying to be cutesies was screwing things up I think. I said more, can't recall now. Back to work for me.


Emily - May 01, 2008 9:24:17 am PDT #7259 of 10001
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola

Sounds like my best friend from high school, whose first out-of-college job involved teaching science to 7th graders. He decided to be easygoing, they jumped all over him. He survived the year, then went for a master's in library science.

But do we really "decide" that? I actually decided to be a hardass, but it turned out not to be something I could just choose to do. Maybe everyone (who isn't naturally hardassed) has to have that learning experience before we have the experience to toughen us up.

At least that's my theory -- I'm just not sure I could have been strict these first couple years, as it's contrary to my nature. Next year, I'll be tougher, because I know exactly WHY you can't do that, no, not even if you're going to be very careful, not even if you've done it before and nothing happened, no it's not fair, argue with me one more time and you're out.

In my defense (because I'm starting to worry you all must think I'm a big milksop that they run all over), I do have a good "Absolutely not and stop right now" voice/face*. I just save it for special occasions.

(*Or so all my dates tell me. Ha!)


megan walker - May 01, 2008 9:39:02 am PDT #7260 of 10001
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist

But do we really "decide" that? I actually decided to be a hardass, but it turned out not to be something I could just choose to do. Maybe everyone (who isn't naturally hardassed) has to have that learning experience before we have the experience to toughen us up.

I don't know. I always pretended to be a hardass in the beginning of the semester, but eventually my students realized that (for the most part) I wasn't. One student even confessed at the end of the semester that he knew someone who had dropped the class because I was so mean and it was going to be "so hard", all while laughing because that so obviously wasn't the case.

I do think it was a choice to be tough in the beginning, knowing that it's hard to keep control of things if you don't at least start that way, but I also think it played into the natural tendency many people seem to have meeting me--that I'm someone to be feared.


sj - May 01, 2008 9:41:50 am PDT #7261 of 10001
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."

My doctor can't find my test results, my furnace wouldn't work for the oil guy, and I didn't bring the landlord's number with me. Can I have a do over today?


erikaj - May 01, 2008 9:42:17 am PDT #7262 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!

Dear Friend And Editor: Stop being so cool. I'm not supposed to be in love with you anymore. Telling me I'm brilliant is not helpful. Platonic love, Me. P.S. If you really admire my brain, how come your gf is such an idot? I'm just saying.


Glamcookie - May 01, 2008 9:42:29 am PDT #7263 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

sj, come sit in the grumpy corner with me! I'll bring pie!


d - May 01, 2008 9:44:32 am PDT #7264 of 10001
It's nice to see some brave pretenders trying to make it interesting.

< sits in the corner with Glamcookie & erika >


omnis_audis - May 01, 2008 10:00:07 am PDT #7265 of 10001
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir

Did someone say pie?


hippocampus - May 01, 2008 10:14:44 am PDT #7266 of 10001
not your mom's socks.

oh dear. what's going on d? sameoldass?


sj - May 01, 2008 10:35:59 am PDT #7267 of 10001
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."

sj, come sit in the grumpy corner with me! I'll bring pie!

Pie? Snuggles into the corner with Glamcookie

I'm home now. Mom went home. I left a message to my landlord who hasn't called me back. TCG is aggravated that I keep calling him at work. Mom is aggravated that I'm so cranky, and I'm aggravated that I have to go back to the doctor's tomorrow because of their incompetence. Is it too early for alcohol?