Susan,
A couple of questions for your translation:
"What was that?"
Do you mean this in the sense of "What was that that I just heard?"
"Pierre just tripped and fell."
Is this "just" in the sense of "it just happened" or "only"?
Mal: Go on. Get in there. Give your brother a thrashing for messing up your plan. River: He takes so much looking after.
'Objects In Space'
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.
megan walker - May 12, 2008 7:18:09 am PDT #6296 of 10001
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Jesse - May 12, 2008 7:19:21 am PDT #6297 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
That's got to be a huge relief, megan. What a fucking mess over there.
meara - May 12, 2008 7:21:31 am PDT #6298 of 10001
Oh my gosh, Megan, you have family in Burma? Eesh. Poor people. Bad enough what happened, but for the government to be actively making it worse (as it sounds from the news coverage)...eesh.
Today I got cancer insurance, disability insurance, accident insurance, and plants! Guess which one is actually exciting?
...cancer insurance is a separate thing???
meara - May 12, 2008 7:23:07 am PDT #6299 of 10001
Oh, and my morning started with a bang by having some stupid recruiter I don't know (who has left me multiple *exactly the same* messages) calling...at 5:55AM!!! I was like "NO, I dont' need a job and I"M ON THE WEST COAST, FUCKTARD!"
Kathy A - May 12, 2008 7:30:53 am PDT #6300 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
What a relief for you, megan. That is such a screwed up situation over there.
I was hearing on the radio about the Chinese earthquake--wtf is it with natural disasters this month?
Aims, so sorry to hear about your job--vibing hard for you to get that new one!!
I'm calling my vet this afternoon to report on Amarna's improvement. She's definitely perkier than she was (she was on the sink waiting for me to get out of the shower last night, meowing in concern over my wetness, and she woke me up this morning as well), and I'm sure her temp has gone down close to normal. She has managed to use her litter box some (not as much as before she got sick, though), and she's eating all of her food and drinking some water, too (and even playing with her extra water dish last night by smacking it around the floor and watching the water splash out). I'm hoping that they'll be satisfied with that and tell me not to bother bringing her in unless she doesn't start using the litter box more in the next day or two.
tommyrot - May 12, 2008 7:32:20 am PDT #6301 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.
Yay Amarna!
sumi - May 12, 2008 7:34:49 am PDT #6302 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
Aww, I'm glad to hear that she's feeling better.
Jesse - May 12, 2008 7:37:26 am PDT #6303 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
That's good news, Kathy.
I was hearing on the radio about the Chinese earthquake--wtf is it with natural disasters this month?
Yeah, my coworker is afraid the world is ending.
sarameg - May 12, 2008 7:43:52 am PDT #6304 of 10001
Did y'all here the bit on NPR from Melissa Block's earthquake-interrupted interview?
It came on while I was still half asleep and the fat cat jumped on the bed.
I woke up a lot faster.
Kat - May 12, 2008 7:51:38 am PDT #6305 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
I did, sara. But I had already heard about the earthquake as I was up at 2:30 AM and online.