Hang in there, Nora. Put on that cheery grin!!!!
Roommate wrote back. Was smoking, won't now. All is well.
If you take sexual advantage of her, you're going to burn in a very special level of hell. A level they reserve for child molesters and people who talk at the theater.
Book ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
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.
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
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.
Nora Deirdre - Dec 16, 2009 11:55:59 am PST #3976 of 30000
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)
blergh. Well, at least I am having cocktails tonight with Jesse, Frank, and EllenS. Though I don't know how social I feel. I will likely be 20% unsociable, and Jesse will have to have a talking-to with me about it next week.
ChiKat - Dec 16, 2009 11:56:36 am PST #3977 of 30000
That man was going to shank me. Over an omelette. Two eggs and a slice of government cheese. Is that what my life is worth?
I keep seeing people out on the street all bundled up ... except they're wearing flip-flops. WTF?
The kids at my school last year used to wear flip flops all year long. If it was cold, they'd wear SOCKS with their flip flops. Which is all kinds of wrong.
Toddson - Dec 16, 2009 11:56:58 am PST #3978 of 30000
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Booze can't hurt.
Speaking of which, I had a drink at a local place last week; they called it an Italian Ginger - prosecco, ginger liqueur and lemon. Very nice ... went down easy.
Seska (the Watcher-in-Training) - Dec 16, 2009 11:59:04 am PST #3979 of 30000
"We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh?"
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.
Until those European practices meet Middle Eastern people coming the other way (and complaining about Victorian poetical inaccuracies that never made any sense).
Calli - Dec 16, 2009 12:00:55 pm PST #3980 of 30000
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
ChiKat: The kids at my school last year used to wear flip flops all year long. If it was cold, they'd wear SOCKS with their flip flops. Which is all kinds of wrong.
Toddson: Booze can't hurt.
In fact, booze may be the only thing that helps, in that circumstance.