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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.


Kathy A - Oct 23, 2008 11:59:25 am PDT #6102 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil

I've got the first two seasons, but haven't picked up S3 yet.

Grrr. I just called into the bookstore to see if they need me (on-call shifts have to check in two hours before the shift starts), and they do. Blargh. I worked last night, and I'm scheduled for an 8-hour shift on Saturday, and I just wanted to have tonight off so I could run to the grocery store and Michaels to stock up my fridge/cabinets and get some badly-needed DMC floss for my Xmas cross-stitch project. Going to both of those stores on Friday nights are a PITA. I'm also tired enough to want another day off my full-time gig, but I can't take tomorrow off since my boss is already taking it.

I think that I'll be quitting the law firm job at the end of the year, because not having Sundays off to recharge is really draining me. It's not worth the extra $100-150 a month, as much as I thought it would be nice to have the cash.


Barb - Oct 23, 2008 11:59:58 am PDT #6103 of 10001
“Not dead yet!”

One of the most fun bits of the LAF2F was Saturday Morning cartoons and everybody singing along with the Animaniacs.

Aw, jeez, Hec-- now I'm earwormed with the theme!! And "It's a big, bright universe and we're all really puny..."

I knew I had it wrong.

So I had to go find it. [link]


megan walker - Oct 23, 2008 12:08:46 pm PDT #6104 of 10001
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist

I should not be watching all this Jim Henson stuff at work. He died shortly after my Mom so they are connected in my brain. This is not helped by the fact that she loved watching SS with me and, well into college, would wander up to me and say things like "Pssst, wanna buy a five?"

And I'll tell you something about me and TV as a kid: I *know* I watched the Muppet Show, every Sunday at 7:00, but I can't remember anything specific from it. At all. Y'all keep naming these bits, and they sound vaguely familiar, but not enough for me to really remember them.

Tep is me. I'm always amazed at how well people remember things they watched at that age. They are familiar when I see them but I can't recall many specifics cold.

Although, in Goblin Valley (Utah) last week, a father kept calling for his kid, and the three of us simultaneously started calling out "Bobby! Cindy!" Good times.


Barb - Oct 23, 2008 12:12:20 pm PDT #6105 of 10001
“Not dead yet!”

OMG, you guys-- serious shivers down my back moment.

Literally just now, I got an email about the new Muppet Whatnot Workshop at FAO Schwarz.


Kathy A - Oct 23, 2008 12:22:12 pm PDT #6106 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil

I just realized why I'm so whiny about wanting tonight off--it's been almost three weeks since I've had a day with no job in it, and I don't have another scheduled until November 13th. I've had a few 3-4 hour workdays mixed in there, but no "I'm completely off" days.

I'm just not used to this schedule, so I'm being bitchy.


Sheryl - Oct 23, 2008 12:22:37 pm PDT #6107 of 10001
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"

Timelies all!

When my folks were visiting this summer we took them to the Jim Henson exhibit at the Smithsonian. Very neat.


Jesse - Oct 23, 2008 12:28:53 pm PDT #6108 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I just realized why I'm so whiny about wanting tonight off--it's been almost three weeks since I've had a day with no job in it, and I don't have another scheduled until November 13th. I've had a few 3-4 hour workdays mixed in there, but no "I'm completely off" days.

That sounds terrible. I get bummed out when I work every weekday in a month! Much less the weekends.


Scrappy - Oct 23, 2008 12:36:50 pm PDT #6109 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

You don't sound bitchy to me. Not even close--with that schedule, I'd be cranky and whiny to the quazillionth degree.


Theodosia - Oct 23, 2008 12:45:16 pm PDT #6110 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"

Me, too. But as I've gotten older, I've needed a whole lot more Down Time in general.


JZ - Oct 23, 2008 12:47:17 pm PDT #6111 of 10001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.

Damn, Trudy, you shared an elevator with Belafonte? And managed to speak in comprehensible words? That is so much more than I ever could have done.

ION, a commentary on Al-Qaeda's endorsement of John McCain that is so very lovely (and thoroughly Buffistaesque) that I just want to read it over and over and over. Preferably out loud.