Heh.
You want to meet the real me now?
Mal ,'War Stories'
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.
Theodosia - May 01, 2008 12:42:42 pm PDT #4543 of 10001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
sarameg - May 01, 2008 12:45:23 pm PDT #4544 of 10001
Snerk.
I get occasional emails from one or the other of the parents that I suspect to an outsider would sound goofy, but it's normal in my family to get emails with subject lines like "lizard tails?tales"
Daisy Jane - May 01, 2008 12:45:37 pm PDT #4545 of 10001
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
My daughter, Jesse, just got laid off, so would have time for coffee! She is at [address]. Phone .
Awesome!
Tamara - May 01, 2008 12:47:30 pm PDT #4546 of 10001
You know, we could experiment and cancel football.
My mom only emails if several calls go unreturned and/or if she wants to lay down a serious guilt trip about something.
I guess she forwards Obama political messages as well.
§ ita § - May 01, 2008 12:51:37 pm PDT #4547 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Now I miss my mum and want her to send me dippy email. But we do speak more than once a week.
sarameg - May 01, 2008 12:51:53 pm PDT #4548 of 10001
I get maybe one email from mom a month that isn't in response to something I've sent her. Dad, well, his are mostly work related.
Kathy A - May 01, 2008 12:58:49 pm PDT #4549 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
I very rarely get e-mail from Mom. One of the last times she sent me one, she got cute and wrote it in that oh-so-annoying text-speak "just to be funny." I sent her back an e-mail demanding that she never do that to me again because I think it's just a horrible way to communicate, and she hasn't. She did call to tell me to lighten up, but I told her she helped to pay for my English degree, so she shouldn't send me stuff like that.
amych - May 01, 2008 1:01:51 pm PDT #4550 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
My mom's emails are fairly well-written, but she has a really distressing tendency to bury the lede -- "I've been meaning to ask if you guys know such-and-so from the fencing world. He fences foil and he's a freshman at Yale -- I didn't think you would because of the location, but I figured you probably know people who know him, anyway. His dad is my hand surgeon and I told him I'd ask. Oh, I broke my hand falling off a barstool!"
Matt the Bruins fan - May 01, 2008 1:02:53 pm PDT #4551 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 need to go see my folks this week. Presumably on a day less headache-tastic.
One of the great things about dating guys is that my folks are supportive without ever wanting to know any details or pressuring me to settle down. Of course, I have had to fight the "If you want grandchildren, adopt another kid that likes children" battle since my late teens mercilessly.
Jessica - May 01, 2008 1:07:18 pm PDT #4552 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
My brother insists that basically, you keep the bottle of vermouth on the shelf next to the gin, and that's as close to his martini glass as the vermouth ever needs to get.
Now I'm not saying your brother shouldn't drink neat gin, but neat gin in a triangular glass != martini. Martini = gin + vermouth.
(Though I prefer mine with Ketel One and as many olives as the bartender is willing to give me. So sue me, I just don't like the taste of gin.)