I want to run away.
Come to Colorado!
Zoe: I thought you wanted to spend more time off-ship this visit. Wash: Out there is seems like it's all fancy parties. I like our party better. The dress code is easier and I know all the steps.
'Shindig'
Natter 61*
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.
SuziQ - Oct 28, 2008 12:07:41 pm PDT #7075 of 10001
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame
tommyrot - Oct 28, 2008 12:14:25 pm PDT #7076 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Ah, school is out. (Evanston Township High School is two blocks away.) A kid walked past my window shouting "Fuck you, pussy!" at some other kid. Now there is more yelling.
Yep, it's a little after 4:00 on a school day....
Theodosia - Oct 28, 2008 12:15:26 pm PDT #7077 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"
Allyson, great news!
In unrelated news, I have screeching bluejays in the tree outside my window.
Sheryl - Oct 28, 2008 12:22:51 pm PDT #7078 of 10001
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"
Timelies all!
Happy Birthday Aurelia!
Trudy Booth - Oct 28, 2008 12:29:11 pm PDT #7079 of 10001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
HAPPY BIRTHDAY AURELIA!!!!
JZ - Oct 28, 2008 12:50:28 pm PDT #7080 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.
Special for erika:
amych - Oct 28, 2008 1:00:38 pm PDT #7081 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
FiveThirtyEight.com report on an Obama rally with a speech by a Wire alum, and tons of Wire love in the comments
I was just reading that. I am now officially SO FREAKING MAD that I didn't go out to that.
Barb - Oct 28, 2008 1:05:18 pm PDT #7082 of 10001
“Not dead yet!”
Come to Colorado!
Believe me, babe, it is so tempting to just get in my car and drive and not tell anyone where the hell I'm going.
I'm having an argument with one of my best friends. She just cut me off on the phone because I was trying to apologize for having broken down somewhat on the phone earlier this morning. (We were talking about the latest round of rejections from editors). And then she emailed me, apologizing for being abrupt on the phone and then said
I think you don’t realize that when you apologize and go on and on about how you’re sorry and you don’t mean to be “stupid” or “tiresome” or “fragile” – what you’re in effect saying is the rest of us (you know, humans?) *are* those things when we go through hard times and break down. Or else that you’re somehow above all that. Either one is a little difficult to take, since you’ve been present during some of the toughest and worst times I’ve ever had.
Which just through me for an utter loop and I'm sitting her in just absolute tears right now because it's so utterly the opposite of how I feel. I can't believe anyone would think I'm that arrogant. If anything, it's the opposite. I apologize because I don't want to be a burden. I've never been ALLOWED to break down. It's not just that it's not in my nature, but it's been drummed out of me from a very early age. Whatever was going on that was bad or upsetting me always had to be set aside because there was always someone who had it worse. So I get the unmitigated joy of feeling guilty for going through the worst time of my life.
Sorry I'm being such a Drama Queen.
Scrappy - Oct 28, 2008 1:10:22 pm PDT #7083 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Barb--the same thing was said to me by my best friend when I was going throug my divorce. I don't think she wants you to feel guilty. I think she wants you to be be able to honestly share how crappy you feel. Let HER decide if it's too much or too stupid or whatever. When my BFF said that to me I was gobsmacked, but I realized she was right and that there was something distancing (for both of us) about my judging how she was reacting to my feelings for her and apologizing in advance. It was a big aha! moment for me.
erikaj - Oct 28, 2008 1:10:40 pm PDT #7084 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
Sonia seems deep. A poet, and an optimist, but no kool-aid drinker. I feel that I can respect her "endorsement" Bush could never be McNutty, though. If the parking garage dream now makes me scream WITH FEAR, y'all know why. Obama would be stoked...I hear he's a big fan.(I'm embarrassed to admit how much that decided me in re Obama/ Hill, but it's only in front of us, right? If I ever meet Jon Stewart, I'll say something else.