Wow - I totally thought that you'd end up with Petpocalypse, Tep! Delighted to hear that it's all panned out okay after all!
Fred: So you don't worry that it's possible for someone to send out a biological or electronic trigger that effectively overrides your own sense of ideals and values and replaces them with an alternative coercive agenda that reduces you to a mindless meat puppet? Shopkeeper: Wow. People used to think that I was paranoid.
'Time Bomb'
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.
Fay - Jun 11, 2008 6:39:21 pm PDT #3120 of 10001
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
Torque - Jun 11, 2008 6:51:45 pm PDT #3121 of 10001
Bad Wolf
Also, I'm sure it won't be dissipating before getting to the Wisconsin border
Nope we are expecting Strong Storms.... wonder how thats gonna affect my "date" tomorrow
Hil R. - Jun 11, 2008 6:59:26 pm PDT #3122 of 10001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Yikes. 4 dead as tornado hits Boy Scout camp in Iowa: [link]
Burrell - Jun 11, 2008 7:20:37 pm PDT #3123 of 10001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
Steph, you're probably asleep but I just wanted to say that since I began using the Mirena I've noticed more painful cramping at ovulation than at my "period."
There are thirty openings at the kindergarten level for the best schools. There are only going to be five or six openings at those schools at the first grade level, because the kindergarten kids move up and the only slots open are from kids who move away.
Not to stress you out, but just something to factor in.
Well the school that had 80 lottery openings and 1600 applicants for kinder? Basically told me my lottery placement is for shit, so I can keep calling and they'll just keep telling me no. Next year I'll try again and yes, Franny's chances will be worse but there's nothing I can do about that. But the plus side is that many of the interesting looking magnets are 1-5 not K-5, so we might have better luck in a different school.
The other local school lotteries are for "extra" spaces after the neighborhood students fill the district, so while they have 60 or 80 spaces available kindergarten, for permit kids like Franny, they have something between none and maybe 10. One school told me they had none last year, another told me they had two. So I'm not counting on getting in. But my MiL wants to move closer to us anyway so we may have her help getting Franny in the next year.
meara - Jun 11, 2008 7:31:56 pm PDT #3124 of 10001
Hrm.
Just got an email from one of the kings I met in Vancouver in October. Sweetie from Houston, who granted I haven't talked to since then really. All "ack, last minute housing fell through for this conference in Seattle, any chance my coworker and I can crash on your floor Friday night??" and I was all set to be like "Of course!" when I noticed it wasn't for her JOB (which is for Planned Parenthood) but for...Landmark. Um, ew? (Keep in mind she's like, 23, so the last minute and crashing on floor is so not as ridic as it would be in a 30 year old)
I guess just for Friday night it's fine anyway, they'll be up and out early, right? Landmark makes them go examine themselves early, right?
I was so much more excited when I thought they'd be in my town to Do Good Works...
meara - Jun 11, 2008 7:36:21 pm PDT #3125 of 10001
In completely separate news, I was at Target trying on clothes, and ended up trying on and then buying a MATERNITY top. Because it looked exactly like all the other shit they were selling (empire waist and all), except it was in a pretty color (bright green). (this,only it looks better on me, because it makes me look cleavagey, and um, not pregnant) And it's my perfect green color)
Burrell - Jun 11, 2008 7:53:01 pm PDT #3126 of 10001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
What is Landmark?
Fay - Jun 11, 2008 8:00:20 pm PDT #3127 of 10001
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
Yeah, what Burrell said.
Polter-Cow - Jun 11, 2008 8:00:21 pm PDT #3128 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Um.
A cat has wandered into my apartment.
I'm not sure where she came from, but I don't want to to let her out if she can't find her way back.
I called the number on her collar and left a message.
Is that the right protocol? Or should I just let her back out?
billytea - Jun 11, 2008 8:00:41 pm PDT #3129 of 10001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
They were sweet (well, the dog was; the lizard was freaky in that penetrating-stare kind of way they have, and the kitty was a freak in that Siamese way), but we just SO didn't have the room.
I just bought David Attenborough's new doco, Life in Cold Blood. I'm looking forward to much reptilian goodness.