Book: Yes, I'd forgotten you're moonlighting as a criminal mastermind now. Got your next heist planned? Simon: No. But I'm thinking about growing a big black mustache. I'm a traditionalist.

'War Stories'


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.


WindSparrow - Nov 16, 2009 1:33:56 pm PST #675 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.

Zenkitty, that really sucks. I'm sorry you have to deal with it.

{{{Aims}}} I'm sorry you are having a rough time of it, too.

{{{sj}}} I'm glad you've got food, finally. And no, forgetting your wallet somewhere doesn't equal fail at adulthood. If it did, the clerks at the grocery store wouldn't be so smooth about setting a cart full of un-paid for, rung-up groceries aside so that a person can run all over town looking for their wallet then come back to get their purchase.

Today was not my greatest day. Just barely managed to fend off a panic attack.

Hil, you fended off a panic attack! I know the skin of the teeth by which you did it feels awfully thin, but.. you won!


Hil R. - Nov 16, 2009 1:39:23 pm PST #676 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

I had an appointment with my psychiatrist today. He's up in Friendship Heights. On the bus (about 40 minutes), there was a woman who absolutely reeked of alcohol holding a conversation with herself. Then she started telling everybody on the bus that god loves them. I apparently didn't react in the right way to this (I was, at the time, just trying to make it through the bus trip without panicking or crying), and she started shaking her finger in my face and telling me, "God bless you! Even if you don't hear it, God hears it!"

I told my psychiatrist that I've been really stressed out, and why. He told me that I've got to take control and make my advisor do the stuff he's supposed to do, and that I should get on top of things because time is running out for writing my dissertation. And that was when I started crying.

My plan for after the appointment was to take the Metro to Dupont Circle and try out the new vegan chicken burrito that they're test-marketing at that Chipotle, but I couldn't deal with either the metro or ordering in a place that requires that much explaining what I want, so I came home, and I think I had potato chips for dinner. Or, at any rate, I had potato chips. I also have some frozen burritos that I might microwave.


JZ - Nov 16, 2009 1:42:40 pm PST #677 of 30000
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.

::aims Vortex at Hil's adviser, waits for thermonuclear explosion::


Ginger - Nov 16, 2009 1:44:18 pm PST #678 of 30000
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda

That can't possibly equal a fail at adulthood. There wasn't even an emergency room involved.

Aims, you're dealing with what some experts think is the most addictive substance known to man. If nicotine was an illegal drug, there'd be thousands of rehab centers devoted to it.

Why does gravity hate me? Why yes, I did fall down again. Thanks to karate, I seem to be much better at rolling, but falling correctly is much less effective when you fall backwards onto two concrete blocks. I haven't even tried to do the contortions it would take to see what my back looks like; I just downed ibuprofen with a beer and lay on an ice thing for a while.


DavidS - Nov 16, 2009 1:44:58 pm PST #679 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Suzi & Raq! Andrew Bailey won ROY for the A's! Sweeeet.


DavidS - Nov 16, 2009 1:46:01 pm PST #680 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Why does gravity hate me?

I expect you're one of the Wright Brothers reincarnated. Probably Orville.


SuziQ - Nov 16, 2009 1:54:36 pm PST #681 of 30000
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame

Suzi & Raq! Andrew Bailey won ROY for the A's! Sweeeet.

I did see that in the news. I just wish I had been able to see him pitch during the season.


Hil R. - Nov 16, 2009 1:54:51 pm PST #682 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

Now I kind of wish I'd gone to Chipotle. Maybe sometime later this week.


-t - Nov 16, 2009 1:57:07 pm PST #683 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

He told me that I've got to take control and make my advisor do the stuff he's supposed to do

But...but...seriously?


Calli - Nov 16, 2009 2:01:05 pm PST #684 of 30000
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

He told me that I've got to take control and make my advisor do the stuff he's supposed to do

Did he provide a handgun? Or at least a cattle-prod?