Wesley: All right. I'm going to let you all in on something you may have trouble comprehending. I assure you however-- Gunn: Vampires are real. Wesley: I was telling!

'The Cautionary Tale of Numero Cinco'


Spike's Bitches 41: Thrown together to stand against the forces of darkness  

[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.


vw bug - May 22, 2008 7:35:41 am PDT #108 of 10001
Mostly lurking...

Gotcha. Just did that. Also going to e-mail everyone who had RSVPed as yes.

And, my thesis buddy was actually relieved when I asked about rescheduling. She's got some things she still has to finish up before graduating and this gives her some breathing room too. We were both pushing through for the party this weekend for the other person, which kind of cracks me up.


Nora Deirdre - May 22, 2008 7:46:09 am PDT #109 of 10001
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)

Oh, for crying out loud. I totally just spaced out on my therapy appointment. I suck!


vw bug - May 22, 2008 7:46:47 am PDT #110 of 10001
Mostly lurking...

Oh, Nora! Poor you!


Sean K - May 22, 2008 8:02:12 am PDT #111 of 10001
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty

Good news from me -- I just took a part time job helping install fiber optic internet in schools all over California. Two to three days a week, with some paid travel up and down the state, usually just for one or two nights, and complete and total flexibility to work the other gigs I already have booked or might get.

For $30 an hour to start.

Plus, (and you might be interested in this, Drew), I'll be learning how to terminate fiber optics. And so yet another job skill will be added to my repertoire.


Susan W. - May 22, 2008 8:02:37 am PDT #112 of 10001
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights

You know what's annoying?

When someone asks you to arrange a meeting, and you painstakingly contact everyone on a list, find the best possible time for the group, reserve a room, and send out an email notification--and then two days later get a message from the person who asked you to do all this, saying that the group that you'd scheduled for next Wed. at 10:30 will be meeting Thurs. at 10:00, and can you please let the group know? With no explanation, apology, or even acknowledgment that you'd arranged something different.

I like N, but she keeps DOING things like this. Last time it was telling interns at orientation that they should meet in a certain place the next day even though I'd listed a different room on the schedule, because the place she told them is where we'd had the group meet for the past two units.

I mean, why have me around to manage all this administrative/operational crap if you're not going to let me DO it?


sj - May 22, 2008 8:05:39 am PDT #113 of 10001
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."

{{{Nora}}} It happens to all of us.

Yay, Sean! That sounds wonderful. Good luck!


meara - May 22, 2008 8:16:03 am PDT #114 of 10001

Aaaagh.

I bumped up the topamax to the 100mg dose two nights ago. The sleepiness seems to have kicked in today. Which is not a HUGE problem, as I am not yet swamped with work, etc etc.

Except that at 7AM, one of my fire alarms started beeping. There are three. Within about 5 feet of each other. (One for each bedroom and one for the hallway, I"m sure it's some sort of code thing, but it's ridic). In my sleep and drug muddled state, it took me forever to figure out (a) what that motherfucking beeping noise was (b) which one it was coming from, and (c) how to make it stop.

Then at 8AM the maintenance guy calls to see if he can stop by today and look at the vine that's growing through my kitchen wall. It took me a while to figure out that he didn't mean he was here right now.

Then I went back to having nightmares about kittens, skunks, zombies, Harry Potter cookies (?), maintenance man walking in, etc etc. Then somebody robocalled my cellphone. In SPANISH. Etc. Etc.

I am still not awake. Certainly not awake enough to go get dressed and find coffee. Which was my original plan for the day: get up, do errands, take laptop with so I could do some work once I found the coffee...


Frankenbuddha - May 22, 2008 8:18:05 am PDT #115 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

Oh, for crying out loud. I totally just spaced out on my therapy appointment. I suck!

Did you at least get your meatball sub?

And, my thesis buddy was actually relieved when I asked about rescheduling. She's got some things she still has to finish up before graduating and this gives her some breathing room too. We were both pushing through for the party this weekend for the other person, which kind of cracks me up.

You may also get more people able to make it on a non-holiday weekend.


vw bug - May 22, 2008 8:21:02 am PDT #116 of 10001
Mostly lurking...

You may also get more people able to make it on a non-holiday weekend.

That's what I'm hoping.


Nora Deirdre - May 22, 2008 8:27:32 am PDT #117 of 10001
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)

No, it was raining so I went to Au Bon Pain for soup and sandwich.