In the grand scheme of things, it is small, but quite annoying. I need to change it. Except then I'll have to remember a new password!
Jayne: There's times I think you don't take me seriously. I think that ought to change. Mal: Do you think it's likely to?
'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
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.
sarameg - Apr 16, 2008 1:21:38 pm PDT #2193 of 10001
Matt the Bruins fan - Apr 16, 2008 1:23:41 pm PDT #2194 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
Happy Birthday, Noise Design!
Everyone in my office has gone home early, except one co-worker who is notorious for errands on her daughter's behalf that take hours longer than promised and has not yet returned. Excellent excuse to play hooky?
Jesse - Apr 16, 2008 1:49:26 pm PDT #2195 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Well in DC, there are no bedbugs?
What about used couches, Jesse? Bedbugs love those too!
Yeah, I don't know. I don't even know how pervasive the bedbugs actually are -- I just know everyone is terrified!
So I just bought a new computer, which, yay. But I'm so sketched out by those stores, it's possible I could have gotten a better deal. I took a free-with-rebate printer I had seen on-line, even though the guy was trying to tell me this other one was $60 and then I could get $120 back. I just couldn't believe it, since I hadn't seen it online. The other printer was too big and heavy anyway. But still -- I'm one of those people who walks in with a printout from the internet and says "I want that. Just that. No thanks. No thanks. Just that. On the paper. For that price. Thanks."
Vortex - Apr 16, 2008 1:57:15 pm PDT #2196 of 10001
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
except one co-worker who is notorious for errands on her daughter's behalf that take hours longer than promised and has not yet returned. Excellent excuse to play hooky?
yes. and added bonus of coworker returning to office and no one being there. ah, the confusion.
Kat - Apr 16, 2008 1:57:34 pm PDT #2197 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Well, Allyson, K is picking up N after 5:00 so she won't be there until then. Then she's home for the rest of the night.
Kat - Apr 16, 2008 2:03:48 pm PDT #2198 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
I have a job interview tomorrow. I'm super nervous about it. Sigh....
Pix - Apr 16, 2008 2:04:25 pm PDT #2199 of 10001
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie
Kat, do you mean specifically at my current school, or in general?
Trudy Booth - Apr 16, 2008 2:12:19 pm PDT #2200 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
If it's any consolation, it wasn't all that great. I do not understand the urge to put lettuce in soup. All greens are not the same, Chinese restaurant people!
A friend of mine with a Chinese Mother and an American Father says that the great lettuce cooking debate was a recurring theme in her childhood.
Pix - Apr 16, 2008 2:20:15 pm PDT #2201 of 10001
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie
Traditionally, 12th grade was Brit Lit, though I'm seeing more and more of a shift to broaden that scope.
Some of the common texts I've seen across schools are some Shakespeare (King Lear/Hamlet/Twelfth Night), some kind of Austen (P&P or S&S are common), Jane Eyre, 18th/19th century British poetry, Candide, The Heart of Darkness, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Beloved, Things Fall Apart, and Beowulf. There are tons more, of course, but those are the ones that immediately came to mind.
Consuela - Apr 16, 2008 2:40:05 pm PDT #2202 of 10001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
A friend of mine with a Chinese Mother and an American Father says that the great lettuce cooking debate was a recurring theme in her childhood.
Yeah, I dunno. Is lettuce even eaten in China? I don't mind cabbage or bok choy or spinach, but plain lettuce? Just seems wrong to me.