Nora, sorry about the job problems. sigh ....
On the lighter side, an appropriate gingerbread construction for us.
Mal: You know, you ain't quite right. River: It's the popular theory.
'Objects In Space'
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.
Toddson - Dec 16, 2009 10:55:31 am PST #3966 of 30000
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
javachik - Dec 16, 2009 10:58:10 am PST #3967 of 30000
Our wings are not tired.
"fake it till I make it"
A key to getting through this. It sucks, but it's real.
-t - Dec 16, 2009 11:07:55 am PST #3968 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
That sounds like a good response, Nora. Good luck.
Polter-Cow - Dec 16, 2009 11:07:56 am PST #3969 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Anyway I write this here in the hopes that one of you has a site you use for work that you LOVE?
java, we use Accellion, and it's pretty great, especially if you want your files to be secure. It will shred the fuck out of them after fourteen days.
But it's not like YouSendIt where you can just go to the website and use it; they set up a company-specific secure file transfer site for us. Which is easy to use.
javachik - Dec 16, 2009 11:10:09 am PST #3970 of 30000
Our wings are not tired.
Thanks, P-C!
Trudy Booth - Dec 16, 2009 11:11:29 am PST #3971 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
Hang in there, Nora. Put on that cheery grin!!!!
Roommate wrote back. Was smoking, won't now. All is well.
Seska (the Watcher-in-Training) - Dec 16, 2009 11:24:25 am PST #3972 of 30000
"We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh?"
Just back from candlelit Advent carol service. Next to me, The Girl set her hymn-sheet on fire*. Then she complained about a line in 'In The Bleak Midwinter' (the one that goes 'earth stood hard as iron/water like a stone' - "It's 17 degrees C in Tel Aviv today," she quite accurately pointed out). Also, we're having below-freezing temperatures and snow, and the church hadn't thought to turn up the heating. Watcher-in-Training family fun. It wouldn't be my church without its various weirdnesses (including no heating).
*Only a little bit
smonster, I'm glad your ticket finally got sorted. Delta sound almost as much the idiots as El Al.
tomorrow I'm going to a very awesome sci-fi con. And cutting from university in order to go there, where I'll actually study more history and sociology than in 3 weeks in uni, I reckon. My laugh is evil.
So true! Enjoy.
Was it in here we were discussing wacky student dress? I just saw one in t-shirt, shorts, and bare feet. It's in the low 40s today.
I never understood why the undergrads - last year when I was on campus - were going to class in pyjamas. You don't get dressed for lectures?
Nora, the meeting stuff sounds rubbish. Here's hoping you feel a bit better soon, and for work improvement of one sort or another.
Calming thoughts, omnis!
Trudy Booth - Dec 16, 2009 11:43:47 am PST #3973 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
Hee. We used to bitch about that line too when I was a kid.
And we never accidentally set our bulletins on fire, but we intentionally dripped wax on our hands.
Toddson - Dec 16, 2009 11:53:20 am PST #3974 of 30000
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
I keep seeing people out on the street all bundled up ... except they're wearing flip-flops. WTF?
Ginger - Dec 16, 2009 11:54:47 am PST #3975 of 30000
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Then she complained about a line in 'In The Bleak Midwinter' (the one that goes 'earth stood hard as iron/water like a stone' - "It's 17 degrees C in Tel Aviv today," she quite accurately pointed out).
You have to expect a certain amount of meteorological dissonance when celebrating a Middle Eastern religion that co-opted European solstice observances in order to be more appealing to the locals.