My friend Miriam is a hospice nurse (mostly for kids with cancer). She's on call once a week. Sometimes we'll go out in the evening on such days, taking a chance that she won't get called. Sometimes she does, and has to leave. Once she was getting up from a movie (in the theater) to answer her phone, and I was tempted to say loudly, "What, is the kid dying now?" (If I did that, I'm sure she'd say something to continue the joke.)
Tracy: 'When you can't run, you crawl... and when you can't crawl, when you can't do that--' Zoe: 'You find someone to carry you.'
'The Message'
Natter 59: Dominate Your Face!
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.
tommyrot - Jun 06, 2008 7:10:40 am PDT #1519 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Jesse - Jun 06, 2008 7:10:52 am PDT #1520 of 10003
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Do people not know that IT folk are often chained with pagers? I'm surprised by how often they're still considered the purview of doctors and drug dealers, although all my employers have tried to shackle me with one.
I guess it makes sense in a 24-hour business, but yeah, I wouldn't have thought of it.
tommyrot - Jun 06, 2008 7:12:39 am PDT #1521 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Do people not know that IT folk are often chained with pagers?
When I lived in San Francisco in '95 and '96, I saw lots of IT people with pagers. So I'm surprised now by people who don't know that.
Polter-Cow - Jun 06, 2008 7:14:17 am PDT #1522 of 10003
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I do, however, have a BlackBerry and it is expected to be on for weekends.
Yeah, everyone around here has BlackBerrys.
BlackBerries?
Kat - Jun 06, 2008 7:32:42 am PDT #1523 of 10003
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
I wish I had a donut.
Have a donut, Jesse! Today is National Donut Day. Free donuts at Krispie Kreme.
We had our 1 hour walkout today. Now I'm tired and don't want to work. 1st period is the only one I like!
Steph L. - Jun 06, 2008 7:39:57 am PDT #1524 of 10003
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Have a donut, Jesse! Today is National Donut Day. Free donuts at Krispie Kreme.
One of my co-workers is engaged to be married, and she's having the wife of another co-worker make her wedding cake.
Co-worker's wife just brought in 5 cakes for us all to try, so that engaged!co-worker would have lots of input on the cake flavors to choose. (Raspberry swirl w/vanilla buttercream frosting, blueberry swirl w/vanilla buttercream frosting, chocolate w/almond buttercream frosting, lemon w/champagne buttercream frosting, banana w/marshmellow-ish buttercream frosting. GUH.)
The winner was lemon, followed by chocolate. I voted for raspberry swirl, but with the champagne frosting instead of vanilla. The banana cake was too dense, much like banana bread -- REALLY yummy, but the texture was all wrong for a wedding cake.
I'm now eating seconds of the chocolate and raspberry swirl (our portions were wee little pinky-sized pieces, so I don't feel bad about eating seconds).
(Well, I wouldn't feel bad about eating seconds even if the pieces were plate-sized.)
Emily - Jun 06, 2008 7:40:35 am PDT #1525 of 10003
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
Okay guys, help me out. This is the last day of school, and I have to do all the sorting/cleaning/putting away stuff, and I am OUT of oomph. It's all gone. Bye-bye, oomph.
But I have to get it done, because I'm leaving on Wednesday, so I won't be able to get back in here before they clean. Argh.
shrift - Jun 06, 2008 7:41:16 am PDT #1526 of 10003
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
Augh. Why does McSnorty have to show up while I'm trying to eat?
tommyrot - Jun 06, 2008 7:41:56 am PDT #1527 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I have to do all the sorting/cleaning/putting away stuff
Get some really big garbage bags and dump everything into them to sort later?
Wait, is this your stuff, or the school's?
Jesse - Jun 06, 2008 7:41:59 am PDT #1528 of 10003
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Have a donut, Jesse! Today is National Donut Day. Free donuts at Krispie Kreme.
Most of the stores here closed. Anyway, I am now full of salad and popcorn.