Close Up.
Yeah. I guess it is part of the job. It doesn't make it less weird.
We're taking a moment ... and we're done.
Oz ,'Chosen'
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.
Kat - Jun 12, 2009 5:05:25 pm PDT #24067 of 30000
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
sarameg - Jun 12, 2009 5:14:23 pm PDT #24068 of 30000
Newp, it doesn't. But, bad as it is for me to admit, it's amusing to watch. And I love getting the opportunity to know your trials and tribs as a teacher. What can I say? I'm a daughter of teachers.
Which is where I note that one of the guys I work with/harangue most? Is now officemate with one of my dad's former grad students/guy who got the bonus when the company hired me for passing my resume along. Gonna be interesting, being me (unh, irreverent is the least of the terms used to describe my relationship with H) in front of a guy who first met me when I was FOUR and is a manager. I've had childhood meltdowns in front of this dude.
I've missed you, Kat.
sarameg - Jun 12, 2009 5:30:56 pm PDT #24069 of 30000
I love little boys. And my parents. From my mom:
Discussion in backseat between J [bro]& D[neph] about a green bug turned into a discussion about whether it was a bug or a flying booger. K[my dad] asked if D was going to eat it and D said, "Who would want to eat ...a nice little green bug?" And then K asked, "Do you eat boogers?" and the response was, "Not somebody else's, that's gross!"
sarameg - Jun 12, 2009 5:30:57 pm PDT #24070 of 30000
sarameg - Jun 12, 2009 5:30:57 pm PDT #24071 of 30000
Sheryl - Jun 12, 2009 5:35:00 pm PDT #24072 of 30000
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"
Timelies all!
Our dance group had a performance at the Zoo this evening.(The SCA barony we're associated with had a medieval village set up for the Zoo's Guppy Gala)
Tomorrow will be errands.
Sunday we're planning to go to the Potomac Celtic Festival.
dcp - Jun 12, 2009 5:42:52 pm PDT #24073 of 30000
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.
sarameg, you never said why you were mad at ITAR. Have you been exporting munitions again?
sarameg - Jun 12, 2009 5:49:15 pm PDT #24074 of 30000
ITAR may be making my life difficult in a new and different way. All because I deal with a public satellite with peculiar public access rules. You can't blow anything up with my satellite . Can crash it into Australia, I guess?
Allyson - Jun 12, 2009 5:56:16 pm PDT #24075 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
Ah, JPL how I've missed you. Two postdocs with expiring visas you say? At 4pm on a Friday? I shall rescue.
ITAR is a thorny hatful rat's nest, sarameg.
Hil R. - Jun 12, 2009 6:08:39 pm PDT #24076 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
I have a pronoun etiquette question. When referring to a transsexual person, describing something that happened before transitioning, which pronoun do you use? Like, if talking about something that Chastity Bono said a few years ago, is that "he said" or "she said"? What about as a little kid -- "her father sang to her" or "his father sang to him"? (I can come up with a logical argument for either, so I want to know which is the way it's usually/supposed to be done.)