Oh, I wish those council guys would let me have an hour alone in the room with her, if I was larger and had grenades.

Willow ,'Storyteller'


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.


§ ita § - May 05, 2008 4:25:56 pm PDT #5027 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Finally watched the plastic surgery slide show. That's an amazingly unflattering picture of George Clooney. Go them. He still wins.

Okay, like nap. I should totally do that.


sarameg - May 05, 2008 4:34:12 pm PDT #5028 of 10001

He seemed so pure!

I wish I could recreate the sound I made.

I've volunteered to pay for a kid's preschool, on a low-income scale (yeah, it's cheating. But they may be fucked otherwise.) And it's still appalling. My brother and SIL get insane good rates because she's an employee and it's Alabama. When I hear or read the going rates, I can't imagine how single parents, or even dual income parents, manage it. One of my friend's salary basically goes to childcare. (at the same time, I know what childcare providers do- and sometimes wish that could be my job, but can't afford it- and don't begrudge that. It's a no-win. )

ION, I'm tempted to curse all my female monkey ancestry who didn't get eaten by lions when they were cramping and sweating and overheating and pukey and generally feeling like shit. WHY did this evolutionary trait get passed down, damnit? NOT USEFUL. NO BIOLOGICAL ADVANTAGE!


Jesse - May 05, 2008 4:44:30 pm PDT #5029 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I've volunteered to pay for a kid's preschool, on a low-income scale (yeah, it's cheating. But they may be fucked otherwise.)

Aw.


sarameg - May 05, 2008 4:56:10 pm PDT #5030 of 10001

I alternately feel saintly and then all WTF have I done about it. Not about the $. About...I don't know. It's just weird.


-t - May 05, 2008 5:05:39 pm PDT #5031 of 10001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

NOT USEFUL. NO BIOLOGICAL ADVANTAGE!

Yeah, but if you just stayed pregnant as much as possible, passing those genes down to future generations, you wouldn't be suffering like that. You would be suffering in entirely different ways.


Vortex - May 05, 2008 5:08:50 pm PDT #5032 of 10001
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman

daycare around here is so expensive that was cheaper for my friend, the government lawyer, to stay home with their second kid.


§ ita § - May 05, 2008 5:10:11 pm PDT #5033 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

No biological advantage indeed. My pain wiring is all kinds of fucked up with the migraines and the crazy meds. It's made periods a strange adventure in uselesness.

I alternately feel saintly and then all WTF have I done

Sara, you're so sara. And a doll.

I'm so Mission: Impossible confused. They're overlapping Jim Phelps and Rollin Hands and audio cassette tapes with reel to reel and auto-destruct tapes with "in the usual manner." I'm very out of flow with the seasons.

Laga linked to the jonesy-killa Spock/Kirk Nine Inch Nails vid the other day, and I'm refascinated with it, and in love with Spock and Nimoy all over again. I wish they hadn't put in the near-subliminal flashes of gay porn, because it's cheating. The tension is so strong they're not needed.


msbelle - May 05, 2008 5:12:50 pm PDT #5034 of 10001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

If I was married, I would certainly work part-time and take mac out of afterschool. I appreciate the socialization he gets there, but I could set up weekly playdates, even alternating ones to give each parent a break.

Still my place is cheaper than most and they do a great job with homework and exposing the kids to music, drama, yoga,..


sarameg - May 05, 2008 5:19:28 pm PDT #5035 of 10001

you're so sara. And a doll.

I just feel confused, torn and lacking. I want to fix so much, and yet don't know when my fixings are needed or necessary or what. So I fire at the dartboard. If that make me whatever, I guess I can accept that.

Life's a helluva lot more confusing once you are actually considered a grownup.

And now I'm going to nibble on some hummus.


Kat - May 05, 2008 5:41:31 pm PDT #5036 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

I wish I had humus to nibble on. I have soy crisps (almost typed soy crips which I am not quite sure what those would be) and I went to an hour long yoga class. It was like bite sized yoga.

Bed time today was especially fraught and bad. Noah cried for 10 minutes. There were no tears. But very very very angry yells.