I want a cupcake.
Cupcakes are great for pain control. You definitely deserve one.
They should film that story and show it every Christmas.
Xander ,'Same Time, Same Place'
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.
WindSparrow - Oct 12, 2009 8:18:03 pm PDT #26190 of 30000
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.
Trudy Booth - Oct 12, 2009 8:24:17 pm PDT #26191 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 sorry for whining, but I feel like I'm being nibbled to death by large, expensive, wet ducks.
Webcam time! Gotta be folks who'd pay a buck a minute to see that if you made a pouty face.
Hil R. - Oct 12, 2009 8:34:24 pm PDT #26192 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Combination of codeine and TENS has dulled the pain somewhat.
Shir - Oct 12, 2009 9:24:59 pm PDT #26193 of 30000
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".
Oh {{{Ginger}}}. And {{Hil}}, too.
Fuck the transporter. Can't MM work on an anti-life-shit-on-thou shield?
1/2 room done. 1/2 room to go. I'm starting to think on throwing stuff randomly into boxes and never deal with them. Dealing takes time. Packing without it? NSM.
omnis_audis - Oct 12, 2009 9:37:14 pm PDT #26194 of 30000
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir
{{{ Ginger }}}. I think you have earned every right to come in here and whine. I hope things turn around soon.
{{{ Hil }}}. I hope the lack of post for a bit means you are sleeping. Pain management is frustrating.
Shir, I am perfectly happy to extol the beauty of your boobs, but I think giving a blind endorsement on a visual reference would be unethical.
GC, good luck with the tests. Many good-results~ma for you.
There was more, but I skimmed. I'm thinking that will be common for me for the next few weeks. Work is busy. We were one of 150 theaters worldwide tonight that presented a reading of the Laramie Project: 10 years later. An epilogue.
Shir - Oct 12, 2009 9:46:32 pm PDT #26195 of 30000
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".
I think giving a blind endorsement on a visual reference would be unethical.
LOL. Since when Bitches are ethical?
Oh, on that note. Since my internship will be in the Ministry of Justice, I went there yesterday to sign some forms. One of them was "won't eveh brake the Israeli Computer Law". Since I never read that one, I was kind of hesitated to sign that one (but of course I did).
I just read the law now. Nothing, Nada, Ziltch on copyright infringement. Everything on "will not send viruses/worms".
Relief.
Polter-Cow - Oct 12, 2009 9:51:29 pm PDT #26196 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I kind of want to cry or scream or run away in panic.
I am giving a three-hour cancer pharmacology workshop next Thursday at a conference. There are some scheduled breaks, so it's more like two-and-a-half hours of material.
I've spent the last month and a half putting together my presentation. I have over 200 slides. I spent this weekend writing out what I would say, even though a lot of it would just be reading from the slide.
Tonight I finally read through my whole talk as if I were giving it.
It took me an hour.
I know I talk fast, but I couldn't stop! The words just kept spilling out and I couldn't make myself slow down. And I was stumbling over everything I had written, even the simplest things. Nothing sounded natural. And my mouth got really dry after a while and I couldn't enunciate for shit, even after I drank some water. I was speaking in slurred vowels by the end. I had no idea I would be this terrible. I don't recall it being this hard when I gave my grad school seminar, although that was much shorter.
I don't know how I'm going to be ready to give this to actual people. I'm not even ready to practice a real live run-through in front of my co-workers before I leave on Friday.
I'm going to go watch cartoons.
Shir - Oct 12, 2009 9:59:00 pm PDT #26197 of 30000
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".
P-C, relax. I'm sure your not so terrible.
As for the time: remember that people will ask you questions. If you fear you won't fill the whole 2 and a half hours, instead of giving people scheduled times for asking questions, allow them to ask things at all times.
As for the talking fast: crowd fear, for me, makes me talk slow in front of audiences. I'm not sure how it'll work for you.
Is there any chance you can invite some friends and practice on them? There's still time!
And cartoons are always a wise choice. Don't stress. You worked hard on it, and I'm sure it'll be fine.
Seska (the Watcher-in-Training) - Oct 12, 2009 10:59:17 pm PDT #26198 of 30000
"We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh?"
Gah, The Girl is on the sofa next to me, trying to find wedding insurance. Nothing seems to cover potential bad situations involving her father, because he's already in treatment. Irritating as hell. We need to find a policy with a technicality we can squeeze into.
Hil, anti-pain~ma being sent your way. Do you get to talk to your doctor about pain relief much? I hope they're working on it for you.
PC, I'm with Shir here - if it's a workshop, there'll be questions. You can set aside half the time for that. You could also have discussion among the audience in groups, if you are so inclined. Very few people are willing to sit through three hours of a talk. They'll be expecting it to be broken up with something.
Shir, the boobs stuff in Bureaucracy had me in fits of giggles last night. Hope it was a bit of a distraction from packing.
Shir - Oct 12, 2009 11:12:12 pm PDT #26199 of 30000
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".
Seska, I don't know how much that could help or if I'm even in the right direction, but friends of mine had a wedding 6 months, and the father of the groom was dying at the time (in fact, they feared he wouldn't make it for the wedding). Eventually, he was there on a wheelchair with an IV, and everything turned out OK. He was in conscious and looked very happy.
Do you mean something like that? If so, even though I'm sure weddings and insurances are different from country to country, I can try and ask them for you how they've done it.