I, too, am out of energy and ambition. At least I get to sit on the patio and listen to the birds while I'm (not) doing it.
You do well to flee, townspeople! I will pillage your lands and dwellings! I will burn your crops and make merry sport with your more attractive daughters! Ha ha ha! Mark my words! Ooh! Ale! I smell delicious ale!
Olaf the Troll ,'Showtime'
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 30, 2008 12:01:07 pm PDT #9868 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"
tommyrot - May 30, 2008 12:01:31 pm PDT #9869 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.
10 til 5 on Friday at end of month and one of the systems for reporting has gone down. Fun times in IT.
Yep, been there....
Sophia Brooks - May 30, 2008 12:12:12 pm PDT #9870 of 10001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
He can start by walking all their fat little dogs!
OMG! They're so fat and cute I wouldn't want them any other way, though!
Kat - May 30, 2008 12:12:35 pm PDT #9871 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
fucking hell.
I just got a call today saying I'm supposed to report to my new school (School Z), the one I'm working at in the fall, on Monday. Even though the principal at school A told me I was supposed to come back to her school on monday and I left stuff there and I am mid project.
Sigh.
Clusterfuck.
Kat - May 30, 2008 12:14:05 pm PDT #9872 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
But, on the upside, just got back from Book Expo. I missed out on the ARC of Gaiman's new book which made me sad, but otherwise, I'm pleased with the amount of books I hauled home. Should be enough reading for the summer.
Tamara - May 30, 2008 12:17:20 pm PDT #9873 of 10001
You know, we could experiment and cancel football.
I lost my motivation to clean anything about 20 years ago. Is there somewhere to buy that kind of thing?
Burrell - May 30, 2008 12:18:06 pm PDT #9874 of 10001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
I'm glad Book Expo was fun. I don't suppose you can put off one of the principals, Kat?
Glamcookie - May 30, 2008 12:20:01 pm PDT #9875 of 10001
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
Kat, were there lots of YA books being given out? Trying to decide whether to go tomorrow for my juvie friends...
Kat - May 30, 2008 12:25:04 pm PDT #9876 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
A fair amount, GC. The other books I missed was the graphic novel Plain Jane (being given at the DC Comics booth at a signing at 2) and copies of the follow up to the Mysterious Benedict Society which my kids love love love.
Burrell, I sent an email to the the HR people for both schools and the principals saying, "Wait. I was told something else. Where am I supposed to be?"
§ ita § - May 30, 2008 12:31:33 pm PDT #9877 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Glad we're all cleared up, Burrell.
Wow--I look at this fanciful clothing talk, and I had a relatively whimsy-free childhood. I'm not sure how much of this is a third world thing, or just my parents being hard asses devoid of metaphors. But it was very clear to me and all my friends what was normal clothes and we'd wear nothing else out and about. We might play in stuff (uh, nightdresses on the head for the subordination to the European ideal of beauty), but we wouldn't even hang out with our parents decked out like that.