Handsome brooding vampire guy has to swoop in all sensitive mouth and overhanging forehead. How 'bout leaving some scraps for the homely-looking fellows who don't turn evil when they get some?

Doyle ,'Life of the Party'


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 09, 2008 11:23:07 am PDT #705 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

This is what I started doing this week, for work. Which is good, because it has been CRAZY. Unfortunately, in 3 days, I have 19 items and only 7.5 crossed off. But that's the crazy.

The idea isn't always to worry about how many you get crossed off. It's really to free up the brain space that is spent picking at you, reminding you to do X thing all the time.

My lists aren't organized at all except by date. Then on occasion, I go back and I read through and see what I have done and haven't.


tommyrot - Apr 09, 2008 11:27:22 am PDT #706 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.

Huh. For the first time in my life, I just got an email from somebody I graduated high school with. Haven't talked to her since graduation. She's asking me if I'm going to our 25th reunion this year.

Huh. I had a crush on her back in 9th grade. That was 28 years ago....


Vortex - Apr 09, 2008 11:30:39 am PDT #707 of 10001
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman

Huh. I had a crush on her back in 9th grade. That was 28 years ago....

well, she emailed you, that means that you meant something to her. And it will probably be one of those situations where you confess your former crush, and she says "I liked you too! I wish you'd asked me out"

And then you want to kill something and spend the rest of the evening drinking moodily at the (cash) bar.


tommyrot - Apr 09, 2008 11:32:48 am PDT #708 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.

And it will probably be one of those situations where you confess your former crush, and she says "I liked you too! I wish you'd asked me out"

Hmmm... in the 9th grade she used to pick on me. Maybe she did have a crush on me....

Oh yeah, we went to grade school together. When I was in 2nd grade, I considered her one of my three girlfriends. (Don't remember what that was all about.) And when I was in third grade, I got a cow and named it after her. (She was not impressed.)


tommyrot - Apr 09, 2008 11:33:55 am PDT #709 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.

And then you want to kill something and spend the rest of the evening drinking moodily at the (cash) bar.

Do you speak from experience?

So far I've avoided going to all my reunions.


lisah - Apr 09, 2008 11:34:23 am PDT #710 of 10001
Punishingly Intricate

And when I was in third grade, I got a cow and named it after her. (She was not impressed.)

Hah! My great-grandfather named his cows (er...cattle?...wait? what's the difference?) after his daughters. It pissed them off!


sarameg - Apr 09, 2008 11:34:35 am PDT #711 of 10001

The idea isn't always to worry about how many you get crossed off.

Yeah, I was mostly bemoaning the crazy which has visited. Most weeks have not been this nuts. Frankly, I'd be twitching in a ball right now if I hadn't started up this week. I'm pretty close as it is.

I used to do this back in college. I still have the old notebooks somewhere, which can be interesting (though often deadly dull) to revisit.


lisah - Apr 09, 2008 11:35:52 am PDT #712 of 10001
Punishingly Intricate

And then you want to kill something and spend the rest of the evening drinking moodily at the (cash) bar.

Or maybe you spend the rest of the night in fascinating conversation and fall in love and live happily ever after?! Signed, A. Romantic

(also my friend's mom & step-dad got together that way!)


Tom Scola - Apr 09, 2008 11:35:58 am PDT #713 of 10001
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500

Huh. It's a weird day for Toms. A former coworker just emailed me wanting to set me up on a blind date with her sister.


Laga - Apr 09, 2008 11:36:23 am PDT #714 of 10001
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.

A while back I got an email from a girl who was one of my two best friends from third grade until we drifted apart in high school. I sent her a very newsy talky email. She sends me email forwards. One or two a day. No matter how many times I mark them as spam they still keep showing up in my inbox. Sometimes the past is better left in the past.