It was before you got there! There was nothing to tell and nobody to tell it to.
But... but... you got there after I already met with Nurit and Slayerette!
Oh well, there were a lot of books there. Enough to get anyone distracted!
Most people is pretty quiet right about now. Me, I see a stiff -- one I didn't have to kill myself -- I just get, the urge to, you know, do stuff. Like work out, run around, maybe get some trim if there's a willin' woman about... not that I get flush from corpses or anything. I ain't crazy.
Jayne ,'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.
Shir - Jun 04, 2008 6:49:44 am PDT #991 of 10003
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".
Nilly - Jun 04, 2008 6:50:26 am PDT #992 of 10003
Swouncing
Cereal Ice-cream:
One of my students brought me ice-cream today!
They're a really chatty class, nothing I do to try and minimize the noise level in the class works for longer than 1.7 sentences and 0.17 of an equation. I try to joke about it, I try to ignore it, I try to joke about trying to ignore it. One of the things I try to do is use that Hebrew expression, "third time - ice-cream" (something like "third time the charm", only without any charms, I guess). So each time I look at somebody for a second time and asks them to please conduct their non-physics affair a bit quieter, I say "OK, this is the second time", because, of course "third time - ice-cream".
Well, last lesson this student just couldn't stop talking. So eventually I almost laughed "you owe me a whole factory of ice-cream by now!".
Today he walks in to class with a little box of ice-cream. And a plastic spoon. Of course, by the end of the lesson, it was more a bucket of milkshake, but still. Ice-cream.
[Edit:
But... but... you got there after I already met with Nurit and Slayerette!
I was there before you guys. You didn't arrive yet, so I took a quick tour around to see if they have any of the lovely second-hand books spread out like they used to, in previous years. They didn't, you arrived, all was well.]
[Another Edit: the event Shir and I went to yesterday is "book week" - there are book bazaars all over the place, with several big squares full of booths and events and writers signing and the like. Even without buying anything, it's lovely to walk around, to find old-book-friends on the tables, to just see the whole big square being all about books (and, um, sales, but let's not talk about that) for the ten days of the "book week", or, well, the one evening I got to be there.]
Shir - Jun 04, 2008 6:58:22 am PDT #993 of 10003
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".
Yay ice cream!
And I think the expression comes from "third time I scream" in English.
I was there before you guys
Oh, I didn't know this!
Frankenbuddha - Jun 04, 2008 7:04:20 am PDT #994 of 10003
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Hippo birdies, Dana!
Shir - Jun 04, 2008 7:05:22 am PDT #995 of 10003
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".
the event Shir and I went to yesterday is "book week"
Dudette, you got that all wrong. Maybe you went there for the book week. I was there for the company, and ice cream.
Jars - Jun 04, 2008 7:23:03 am PDT #996 of 10003
DH, Iris and I are going to see Jars! (and Ireland too)
Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay!
meara - Jun 04, 2008 7:30:34 am PDT #997 of 10003
Happy Birthday Dana!!
DH, Iris and I are going to see Jars! (and Ireland too)
Jealous! Though I suppose I got to do that....um...good god, almost four years ago? Right before the LAST election. Every cab driver wanted to talk about the election with me.
So tell me if I'm being lazy or if I can run, run like the wind.
Run like the wind, Sox.
My milk curdled in my coffee this morning (sell by date of 6/2)
I'm always afraid of that Jesse. I'm sorry.
Has anyone been moved by the kind of movers who pack for you?
Yes. I loved it. Though I felt really guilty to be standing there while they worked. I recommend having something to do that you can vaguely keep an eye on them, but also keeps you marginally busy. Like, um, posting on buffistas?
Fingers crossed that any RIFs that hit the NY office bypass me. Not sure when announcements might start coming down
Shit. Fingers crossed, msbelle, that by the time I get to the end fo the thread there's good news. YOu know I've been through this many many times, so I know how it feels!
megan walker - Jun 04, 2008 7:39:39 am PDT #998 of 10003
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Happy Birthday Dana!
Happy Birthday Ellie!
Also, didn't we already know the thing about red wine?
javachik - Jun 04, 2008 7:40:11 am PDT #999 of 10003
Our wings are not tired.
I vote NO RIFS. No more Buffistas need to be let go. Ever.
Happy Birthday, Dana and Ellie (omg SO CUTE Ellie!)!
Meara, I think we might have been in Cork at the same time; I had the same experience! Especially with the Irish who wanted to know about the "Kerry" in John Kerry. I was there the last week of August. You?
Jesse, didya know the organic milk lasts a whole hell of a lot longer than regular? I'm ascareder of curdles than I am of venomous snakes. I buy organic because it lasts months. I read that in the Consumer Reports "Shop Smart" magazine and they're right. I just got back from a 2 week vacation and my milk is f-i-n-e.
Strega - Jun 04, 2008 7:41:11 am PDT #1000 of 10003
The study did not compare the effects of bottled wine vs box wine.
But it's about the effects of resveratrol, which oxidizes quickly. So, if you're not drinking the whole bottle in, I think, about an hour, the resveratrol is gone. Boxed wine isn't exposed to the air until you pour a glass.
(I read an article about all that by a guy who doesn't like wine but started drinking one glass a day for the health benefits. Which convinced me to do the same. So go team boxed wine.)