Sumi, it's like the $100 zazem's they sell at the East-West bookstore. Being buddhist is extremely expensive, especially in the west! Seems to be counterintuitive.
Saffron: You're a good man. Mal: You clearly haven't been talking to anyone else on this boat.
'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.
Kat - Apr 17, 2008 12:56:17 pm PDT #2474 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
sumi - Apr 17, 2008 12:59:07 pm PDT #2475 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
I mean, sure there are golden statues of the Buddha. . . but they don't generally belong to one person.
I'm happy I could log into this computer while I'm on phone duty.
Article about some people's efforts to save the Marsh Tacky - a feral horse that lives in the Carolinas.
tommyrot - Apr 17, 2008 1:18:30 pm PDT #2476 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Craigslist ad: pet psychic & spiritual reader & adviser (( glenview) )
I'm mostly interested in the pet aspect (although fans of poor spelling, grammar and punctuation might want to read the whole thing):
...also avalible for pet psychic couciltaion's. don't leave your best friend feeling uncomfutable know what they want and need at the time they need it most.MRS.DANILLES HAS THE SPEACIAL ABILITY'S TO WORK WITH THE SUPERNATUARL TO OPEN UP THE MIND AND HEART OF THOSE WE CARE FOR MOST EVEN WHEN IT COMES TO OUR PET'S ..............
Yay!
Sheryl - Apr 17, 2008 1:22:05 pm PDT #2477 of 10001
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"
Timelies all!
Thanks for the birthday wishes! My folks are in town and we are about to go out for dinner.
tommyrot - Apr 17, 2008 1:23:39 pm PDT #2478 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Oh yeah, Happy Birthday Sheryl!!!
Matt the Bruins fan - Apr 17, 2008 1:35:20 pm PDT #2479 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
I certainly get the impression that Mrs. Danilles has been called "special" before...
CaBil - Apr 17, 2008 1:39:29 pm PDT #2480 of 10001
Remember, remember/the fifth of November/the Gunpowder Treason and Plot/I see no reason/Why Gunpowder Treason/Should ever be forgot.
Happy Birthday Sheryl...!
sj - Apr 17, 2008 1:48:07 pm PDT #2481 of 10001
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Happy Birthday, Sheryl!!!
megan walker - Apr 17, 2008 2:03:15 pm PDT #2482 of 10001
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Happy Birthday Sheryl!
Mini-meara as I catch up on Natter:
Pretty much no farm heritage at all.
I think this is true of 95% of New England.
I don’t know about that. Vermont is pretty serious about its dairy farms. My father grew up on a big farm in Amherst, MA. Cows and crops. It’s still a working farm today (run by a first cousin, once removed).
For those of you who have worked both here and abroad, what were some of the hiring practices that you experienced in the US that were nowhere to be seen in another country?
The biggest one that sticks out in my mind is having to write a cover letter longhand, which I had to do it for my university post in Paris. As I've mentioned before, this is often required in France. Big corporations supposedly do handwriting analysis on them.
Signs of distress are piling up in the California housing market, where prices are falling at three times the national rate of decline.
Well, with the recent median price in SF being about $750,000, they have a long way to fall.
§ ita § - Apr 17, 2008 2:25:43 pm PDT #2483 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I don't think I could read the entirety of that Craigslist ad. Offensively badly written. I wouldn't want her in my dog's brain. Poor thing.
Isn't the $65 for members of MOMA? Granted, I have no idea as I just glanced at the price and tiptoed away.
$58 for members, if memory serves. Which it might not, because my head is trying to punish me for some past wrong. I've set up strict guidelines about ER visits, so it's going to be a long ~24 hours until my visit. Or, maybe it will go away before then. Could totally happen.
Boy without a clue tried to friend me on Facebook. This is a guy I met on the newsgroups (soc.culture.african.american IIRC) with whom I seemed to share a crazed sense of...something. And very verbose but platonic emails. While I was living in New Orleans he came through town and so we went for a lovely dinner in the French Quarter. During the dinner we regaled each other with tales of our lives, and he shared with me the time he shot his sister's cat with a rifle because it had been messing up his cashmere sweaters.
I was remarkably polite to him for the rest of the night, but he seemed put out that I didn't, well, put out. Hello? Sociopath. I cut off all contact immediately. Snip snip. I mean, if he didn't see anything wrong with what he'd done, there was no way I was going to suddenly convince him.
This was a hugely long time ago--like ten years, I guess? He found me on the web about five years ago--searched on my email address and found a link to the LAistas mailing list and tried to join. Dear lord. Now he's trying to friend me on Facebook.
I swear, I must smell funny. Some odd odour that puts off normal men, and has nutjobs repeatedly searching the web for my electronic spoor.