Book: Afraid I might be needing a preacher. Mal: That's good. You lie there and be ironical.

'Safe'


Spike's Bitches 44: It's about the rules having changed.  

[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.


Barb - Sep 15, 2009 4:48:50 pm PDT #23274 of 30000
“Not dead yet!”

It varies. If my mother is driving me insane (I know... I know... I mean more than the usual levels of insanity) but anyhow, if she's making me nuts, it's every few days. If it's normal levels of insanity, the daily or every other day.

I think at the moment she's pouting slightly over the almost definite impending cross country move.


Hil R. - Sep 15, 2009 4:52:43 pm PDT #23275 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

I usually talk to my parents a few times a week.

Tylenol 3 update: ankle definitely hurts less. A lot less. I also feel really spacey -- I'm not getting the loopy feeling that I did from Tramadol, but just sort of like my brain is fuzzy and I can't concentrate. I definitely can't take this during the day if I want to get any work done, but it seems like it'll be good for taking at night. As long as I'm not too groggy in the morning.


Emily - Sep 15, 2009 4:55:48 pm PDT #23276 of 30000
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola

Usually a couple times a week. I just called her tonight to ask her assistance on baking a potato. Then she called me back because she'd just remembered a funny story about my stepfather (whose memory is... not so great. Like, I wouldn't call him to ask about baking a potato).

Okay, so get this: she's telling him about some Welsh Arthurian thing or something (I got lost in the details) and he thinks this is the most amazing thing since Stanley found Livingstone (he thinks she's really smart, which of course she is, so go him) and says no one's ever made that connection to him before, not even when he was taking Old Welsh at Harvard. Old Welsh? says my mother. You took Old Welsh? Well, sure, says my stepfather. Well, it was Harvard, after all. Still, says she -- Old Welsh? Good lord.

She told me that it came to her after some time puzzling over it that of course he'd misremembered. Ah, says I, unsurprised to hear that. Yes, she says, of course what he actually took was Old Norse.


Nora Deirdre - Sep 15, 2009 5:03:51 pm PDT #23277 of 30000
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)

hm, it depends. I don't like to call people and my parents are included in that group.


erin_obscure - Sep 15, 2009 5:05:36 pm PDT #23278 of 30000
Occasionally I’m callous and strange

Dangit, the VegFest is coming to Portland and i have to work that day. *pout*


omnis_audis - Sep 15, 2009 5:12:13 pm PDT #23279 of 30000
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir

Dinner was left over lasagna. Shocking. I think I have a few more days of it left.

Calling 'rents. Mom is every few weeks. Dad, half as often. She's all alone in CA, he's got his gf and siblings in NY. Everytime I call either, I think I'm the bad son because I haven't called in awhile, only to learn, I call more than the other 2 sibs. And mom never calls for fear of bothering me, despite me buying her a cell phone and paying for it!


DavidS - Sep 15, 2009 5:17:41 pm PDT #23280 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

I was gonna say, there is no Old Welsh.

Actually, I don't know that for sure and am asserting that without the effort of googling. But I've never heard it taught at a uni.

However, I know there's Old Norse because of various eddas and besides it's a plot point in John Irving's The Water Method Man. (A very funny novel which I recommend highly.)


Steph L. - Sep 15, 2009 5:19:21 pm PDT #23281 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

John Irving's The Water Method Man. (A very funny novel which I recommend highly.)

Oh my lord. I was such a huge John Irving fan in high school/early college. I haven't read that in 20 years (egad). I remember liking it, though.


amych - Sep 15, 2009 5:20:33 pm PDT #23282 of 30000
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

:: is wildly amused at the idea that only those things exist which are taught in uni ::


beth b - Sep 15, 2009 5:21:05 pm PDT #23283 of 30000
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!

Water Methodman

I didn't hate it, but I do not understand why DH Loves it.