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Everybody plays each other. That's all anybody ever does. We play parts.
Saffron ,'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.
Nora Deirdre - Apr 09, 2008 4:26:18 am PDT #532 of 10001
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)
Emily - Apr 09, 2008 4:26:25 am PDT #533 of 10001
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
Tonight I get yet another fantastically useful new-teacher training session. The topic? The state test I don't have to give. So, yet another 2.5 hours on stuff that doesn't relate to me, emphasizing yet again my department's isolation from the general school community. Thanks!
Eh, I just resent these 2.5-hour meetings after the school day is over. That's my time to... play Final Fantasy, darnit!
msbelle - Apr 09, 2008 4:30:31 am PDT #534 of 10001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
take a book, or a handheld electronic device with games, and/or an ipod.
I just witnessed 2 grown men having the most ridiculous conversation about who is going to send an email or make a call.
Jesse - Apr 09, 2008 4:49:27 am PDT #535 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Almost as good as calling out sick myself is the fact that my boss called out sick today. Apparently she continues to be really traumatized by the fact that we are not wailing and gnashing our teeth about the fact that she is leaving.
She turned around and punched the guy, hard.
Turned out it was one of the doctors she's working with that tried to surprise her.
Ask msbelle about the pirate that wanted to take a picture with her...
Emily - Apr 09, 2008 4:51:29 am PDT #536 of 10001
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
take a book, or a handheld electronic device with games, and/or an ipod.
Alas, the group is small enough that they would definitely notice.
This will be much like the one about homework I went to, where we broke into small groups to discuss it and my only contribution was, "I don't assign it."
ETA: This is NOT to say that I see no value in discussing these things, or learning about issues that don't directly concern me right now -- I'm just bitchy about... well, everything. I treasure my free time.
Shir - Apr 09, 2008 4:52:46 am PDT #537 of 10001
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".
msbelle? Can I hear the story about the pirate?
msbelle - Apr 09, 2008 4:55:43 am PDT #538 of 10001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
a crazed employee of a cruiseline assaulted me as I disembarked the ship, something about wanting a picture, and I think I shoved him away while maybe taking a fighting stance. There may have been an elbow thrown. Basic krav defence stuff for an attack from behind. Apparently it was hilarious to watch. I was completely in the right, all I'm sayin.
eta - and might I add, your mom sounds like a perfectly reasonable woman.
Steph L. - Apr 09, 2008 4:56:09 am PDT #539 of 10001
the hardest to learn / was the least complicated
My mom just called. She was walking in a mall, when suddenly she saw a shadow in the corner of her eye and felt someone touching her bag. She turned around and punched the guy, hard.
I guess the doctor learned not to sneak up on her!
Shir - Apr 09, 2008 4:57:53 am PDT #540 of 10001
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".
I have nothing but respect for women who know how to use violence, and they are absolutely right.
eta - and might I add, your mom sounds like a perfectly reasonable woman.
She is!
Nutty - Apr 09, 2008 4:59:34 am PDT #541 of 10001
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
I think that if we all defended our personal bubbles with violence, people would be much more enlightened as to the existence thereof. A cold shoulder and a stiffly offended look can only do so much!