Damn you, ita -- I still haven't bought kernels for popping!
Spike: I'm not a monster. Xander: Yes! You are a monster. Vampires are monsters! They make monster movies about them! Spike: Well, yeah. Got me there.
'Dirty Girls'
Natter 58: Let's call Venezuela!
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.
Jesse - Apr 10, 2008 1:54:39 pm PDT #1012 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Cass - Apr 10, 2008 2:04:44 pm PDT #1013 of 10001
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
In a related note, I'm bereft that the Baby Loves Disco event is already sold out for this month. No clubhopping for us.Have you been? I went to one up here and was ... unimpressed? Particularly because J is mobile and the layout was awful. Two adults to wrangle one pretty well-behaved child and we only managed about ten minutes before we left.
ChiKat - Apr 10, 2008 2:04:59 pm PDT #1014 of 10001
That man was going to shank me. Over an omelette. Two eggs and a slice of government cheese. Is that what my life is worth?
Okay, I hit the link to read that article and then continued to read Natter. So so glad I did. I think the snippets I got from y'all is quite enough, thank you.
Why, in all earnestness, do some people prefer being married to someone they don't love rather than being single? I really really don't get it. Are people that afraid of themselves/hate themselves so much that they can spend time alone? If that's the case, I feel very sorry for them.
I'm single, but I'm not unhappy about that. Would I like to find a great guy? Most days (honestly some days I'm not sure. I like my independence too much), but I'm not pining over what I don't have simply because I like what I do have too much. Frankly, I'm pretty good company.
Dana - Apr 10, 2008 2:08:00 pm PDT #1015 of 10001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Dear FedEx,
I hate you.
What? Where are your damn shoes?
shrift - Apr 10, 2008 2:16:39 pm PDT #1016 of 10001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
The FedEx driver is refusing to deliver them to my building without someone present to accept delivery, for "security reasons."
I am writing a note. If he doesn't deliver them tomorrow, they go to Skokie, and from Skokie, back to Zappos. Because it's not like I can get out to fucking Skokie easily, Jesus Christ.
§ ita § - Apr 10, 2008 2:18:23 pm PDT #1017 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Right now I would marry someone if it meant they'd be around to take care of me when I really needed it (with the understanding I'd do that for them in a heartbeat when able) and a host of other things...that pretty much mean that we'd have to be in a whole damned lot of like with each other and it wouldn't be settling in the end.
What is the problem with going home to an empty house? How can that be fixed with a legally binding contract? That's what it boils down to.
My god, all I can think of is popcorn!
Best Buy, Circuit City, etc, say that they charge a restocking fee unless prohibited by law. Where are they prohibited by law?
Matt the Bruins fan - Apr 10, 2008 2:39:30 pm PDT #1018 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
Honestly, most of the principal needs she talks about in settling for a husband could be fulfilled by taking in a roommate that's cool with babysitting from time to time.
Though of course that wouldn't provide societal validation and, most importantly, tangible evidence that there's someone out there willing to settle for her...
§ ita § - Apr 10, 2008 2:43:38 pm PDT #1019 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
evidence that there's someone out there willing to settle for her...
Aha! But men aren't settling, she says. What they seem to want is this sort of basically disinterested woman who can't afford to be picky. That's their dream.
Trudy Booth - Apr 10, 2008 2:45:04 pm PDT #1020 of 10001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
Frankly, I'm pretty good company.
You really are.
Honestly, most of the principal needs she talks about in settling for a husband could be fulfilled by taking in a roommate that's cool with babysitting from time to time.
Sure, but Kate & Allie isn't going to shut up her Mom.
Trudy Booth - Apr 10, 2008 2:45:08 pm PDT #1021 of 10001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
Frankly, I'm pretty good company.
You really are.
Honestly, most of the principal needs she talks about in settling for a husband could be fulfilled by taking in a roommate that's cool with babysitting from time to time.
Sure, but Kate & Allie isn't going to shut up her Mom.