Different stores tend to have different stocks, Typo. But I've found that their staff is always amazingly helpful and under $20 should get you an excellent gift.
Spike: You pissed in the Big Man's Chair? That's fantastic! Gunn: Spike, can you please turn off that warm fuzzy? Spike: What, the Lorne thing? Worn off. I just think that's bloody fabulous.
'Life of the Party'
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.
Cass - Apr 29, 2010 10:53:45 am PDT #17598 of 30000
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
billytea - Apr 29, 2010 11:26:43 am PDT #17599 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.
Congrats Hil! And congratulations to Stephanie too.
vw bug - Apr 29, 2010 12:48:33 pm PDT #17600 of 30000
Mostly lurking...
sj, how long have you been on the steroids already? And I clearly need to catch up with you. What pain are you experiencing? Because long-term steroid usage can cause pain.
amych - Apr 29, 2010 12:56:51 pm PDT #17601 of 30000
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Yay for all the good news of brilliant peoples and oatmeal!
Hil R. - Apr 29, 2010 1:13:55 pm PDT #17602 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
My advisor's first comment when I told him about the job was, "Have you seen Deliverance?" But he did say congratulations, too.
I'm going to spend tomorrow sorting through my files to see which jobs I haven't heard from yet. I'm pretty sure that everything that I've still got out is roughly comparable to this one -- some might be in locations I like a little better, but they're all at about the same level -- but I just want to make sure that there aren't any that I haven't heard from yet that are much better jobs that I have a chance at.
One of my officemates got his masters at another university near here that has a much better math reputation than mine. He said that the people who graduated there two years ago pretty much all got jobs or postdocs at really good schools. Of the 12 or so people there graduating this year, only three or four have any job yet.
Vortex - Apr 29, 2010 1:14:43 pm PDT #17603 of 30000
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
Go you!
Dana - Apr 29, 2010 1:15:16 pm PDT #17604 of 30000
I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."
My advisor's first comment when I told him about the job was, "Have you seen Deliverance?"
Oh, hardy-ha-fucking-ha.
Connie Neil - Apr 29, 2010 1:16:28 pm PDT #17605 of 30000
brillig
Your advisor, Hil, is weird.
Toddson - Apr 29, 2010 1:19:59 pm PDT #17606 of 30000
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
I don't think weird covers it.
§ ita § - Apr 29, 2010 1:34:56 pm PDT #17607 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I bet Georgia would like to erase Deliverance the way Glenn Close would probably like people to just forget about her character in Fatal Attraction.