The result of the Craigslist thing is that I stop trying to be helpful. I'm not rude, I answer e-mails, I do what I say I'll do. But I'm not going to go out of my way to do anything for someone who's 75% likely to blow me off.
Get up...get up, you stupid piece of... What did you do that for? What's wrong with you? Didn't you hear a word he said? All of you! You think there's someone just going to drop money on you?! Money they could use?! Well, there ain't people like that. There's just people like me.
Jayne ,'Jaynestown'
Natter 64: Yes, we still need you
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.
Dana - Aug 06, 2009 12:06:41 pm PDT #2469 of 30001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Kathy A - Aug 06, 2009 12:06:57 pm PDT #2470 of 30001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Barb - Aug 06, 2009 12:09:24 pm PDT #2471 of 30001
“Not dead yet!”
Daaaaaaaamn. That's, like, my whole adolescence.
Aw man, no kidding.
erikaj - Aug 06, 2009 12:12:21 pm PDT #2472 of 30001
Always Anti-fascist!
That's terrible.
sarameg - Aug 06, 2009 12:16:36 pm PDT #2473 of 30001
And the email to DPW bounces. Jackasses.
Trudy Booth - Aug 06, 2009 12:24:48 pm PDT #2474 of 30001
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 finding myself surprisingly moved by John Hughes' death.
Daisy Jane - Aug 06, 2009 12:24:48 pm PDT #2475 of 30001
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
RE: John Hughes. Yep. Heart attack. Heard about it at work (one of the hazzards of working here I suppose).
sarameg - Aug 06, 2009 12:35:52 pm PDT #2476 of 30001
Aaand, nobody's here. I do know my former boss & her husband, my realtor, one of my less conversational coworkers and lisah have said they'll come. Other friends? NSM. Guess that happens in the summer.
Ginger - Aug 06, 2009 12:42:05 pm PDT #2477 of 30001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
John Hughes was 59. Way too young.
Around here, at least, no one arrives on time. There's always that 20 minutes of blank time in which I think, "Do I start drinking now?"
Scrappy - Aug 06, 2009 12:44:13 pm PDT #2478 of 30001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
We have never thrown a party where my (very prompt) husband did not spend the first hour pacing while telling me that no one was going to come. But people always come late.