UPS rant! They delivered my new TV today (yay!) and had my neighbor sign for it (yay!) but can't tell me if the driver carried it upstairs to my door (good) or left it sitting in the lobby (BAD).
I happen to be very biteable, pal. I'm moist and delicious.
Xander ,'Bring On The Night'
Natter 63: Life after PuppyCam
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.
Jessica - Jan 13, 2009 7:53:16 am PST #1072 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Allyson - Jan 13, 2009 7:53:52 am PST #1073 of 30000
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
My new doggie is coming tomorrow!
And I'm going to check out my new office, today.
I'm chewing peppermint gum to try and settle my stomach. I'm so nervous, yo.
Scrappy - Jan 13, 2009 7:55:41 am PST #1074 of 30000
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
I just had to learn all the spondee, trochee, etc, stuff for the CSETs. I know what they all are, but have a hard time figuring out if a poem is in, say, anapestic tetrameter or iambic hexameter or whatever. Even when I say it out loud, I have trouble counting the stresses. I think all the meter jargon is wicked cool, though, and have been running around saying things like an-a-PEST and DAC-tyl-ic for several weeks now.
amych - Jan 13, 2009 7:58:28 am PST #1075 of 30000
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Anapest always sounds to me like it should be a suburb of Budapest.
§ ita § - Jan 13, 2009 8:05:38 am PST #1076 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I am...applying for jobs. I'm way tired of this unemployment shit.
Trudy Booth - Jan 13, 2009 8:09:10 am PST #1077 of 30000
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
Looks like Gene Robinson, openly gay Episcopal bishop, will be delivering an invocation at the innauguration.
(Btw, I think the article is wrong in saying he is the first ordained openly gay PRIEST in a major denomination -- but I could be wrong. He is definatley the first openly gay bishop, however.)
I've met him. He lead a workshop at my then-church and we spoke for a while afterwards. He is a remarkable man.
Sue - Jan 13, 2009 8:13:47 am PST #1078 of 30000
hip deep in pie
Are you quibbling with the use of the word, Priest, Trudy, or that he was the first? Because the Episcopalians do call their minister's Priests. Esp. The High Anglicans, who are sometimes more Catholic than the Pope.
erikaj - Jan 13, 2009 8:15:39 am PST #1079 of 30000
Always Anti-fascist!
I read Gene Robinson and my brain fills in Washington Post. For half a second, I was like "talk about multifaceted!" But I'm a moron(With a name that people don't just have that many of.) Still, D'oh!
Trudy Booth - Jan 13, 2009 8:17:04 am PST #1080 of 30000
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
I'm familiar with the terms. What I'm trying to say (apparently badly) is that there were openly gay Episcopal priests before Robinson. He's the first one of them to be elevated to Bishop, however.
Trudy Booth - Jan 13, 2009 8:22:41 am PST #1081 of 30000
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
Robinson always makes a point that he's the first OPENLY gay bishop -- he insists there have been many gay bishops serving for years and that the change here is the honesty. And who could object to honesty?
He's a great man.