"That is the sound of ultimate suffering. The man in the kilt makes it now."
What is your childhood trauma?
Cordelia ,'Lessons'
Spike's Bitches 45: That sure as hell wasn't in the brochure.
[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.
brenda m - Mar 11, 2010 6:22:15 pm PST #12758 of 30000
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
billytea - Mar 11, 2010 6:23:19 pm PST #12759 of 30000
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Ok, this is weird. I received a letter in the mail today. It's inviting me to vote in a selection primary for the Australian Labor Party's candidate at the next State election for the seat of Kilsyth. Now, that's unusual to begin with. We don't have primaries for the most part, the party membership (more like active party members than registered voters with a party affiliation) tends to choose the candidate for a given seat. I think this is a good move, the primary system is one area I think you guys have it better. (Some of the details can get a bit hinky, but the principle seems sound.)
No, what threw me is that one of the candidates is a guy I went to Uni with. We were both in the ANU Debating Society. (He represented the ANU at the World University Debating Championships and was voted best speaker, one of at least three debaters active in the club when I was there who achieved that honour in one year or another. The ANU was a very strong debating uni.) He went on to complete a PhD at Yale, and has worked for the US Federal Reserve and the World Bank.
The point of all this is, I knew him in Canberra a couple of decades ago. Now apparently we're both living in the outer eastern suburbs of Melbourne.
NoiseDesign - Mar 11, 2010 6:36:02 pm PST #12760 of 30000
Our wings are not tired
Wow. Just. Wow.
Aims - Mar 11, 2010 6:37:21 pm PST #12761 of 30000
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Ooooh! Upbeat thing!! Just got an email from a Girl Guider in NZ! She's putting me in touch with a GG Pippins leader for my girls to penpal with!!
SO EXCITED!!
Aims - Mar 11, 2010 6:38:35 pm PST #12762 of 30000
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Wow BT. That is awesome an dyet a bit freaky.
Hil R. - Mar 11, 2010 6:50:48 pm PST #12763 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
People in the alley behind my building are being ridiculously loud tonight. One girl with a really loud annoying laugh seems to find everything hysterical.
Trudy Booth - Mar 11, 2010 6:58:11 pm PST #12764 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
One girl with a really loud annoying laugh seems to find everything hysterical.
Girls like that always do, don't they?
billytea - Mar 11, 2010 7:00:16 pm PST #12765 of 30000
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Wow BT. That is awesome an dyet a bit freaky.
It really is. I mean, the guy's CV makes pretty clear he's been something of a high flyer. I don't really live in the high flying part of town here - most of my neighbours are tradies. Running into him was unexpected.
WindSparrow - Mar 11, 2010 7:24:32 pm PST #12766 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.
Oh, Erin, I meant to come back to this:
You wouldn't need a deflector shield, with that ammoniacal reek.
Our cats' litter boxes don't get too bad unless I wait a couple days too long to change the litter. (Using pine pellets - once it stops smelling like saw dust, it's time to change 'em.) Even this morning when Harvey was peeing into non-absorbent, non-odor-controlling plastic beads, while there was a scent, it was not strong, or eye-watering. I do remember that sensation from changing litter boxes of cats in the past, back when I still fed them dry food. If your cats' urine is really strong with the ammonia, it may be a sign that they need more hydration. Cats often do not drink enough fluids to keep themselves in optimal health.
Seska (the Watcher-in-Training) - Mar 11, 2010 10:39:15 pm PST #12767 of 30000
"We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh?"
Empathy for Harvey, whose urinary tract issues sound very like my own!
Much house~ma, Aims.
Had to skim as have been ridiculously busy - hope everyone else is doing OK.
We're off to BBC TV Centre to record The Girl's panel interview! (Which, we found out to great amusement yesterday, will be broadcast at 5.45 on a Saturday morning. Way to promote feminism, BBC. But there should be an online version at least!) Then Derby to talk about what "disability support" I may need to do my PhD (oh joy). Then home again. And I woke up thinking I had a free day, till The Girl reminded me otherwise. Heh.