That sounds like a very sensible plan, Hil.
Cat is sitting on my crocheting, keeping me from finishing this sweater. However, purring on my lap, so it's fine. Sweater can wait.
I'm just waiting to see if I pass out. Long story.
Mal ,'Heart Of Gold'
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.
-t - Jan 26, 2010 12:14:55 pm PST #7999 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Trudy Booth - Jan 26, 2010 12:16:09 pm PST #8000 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
I got paid yesterday for an article I sold...
By WHOM? About WHAT?
ERIKAJ YOU ROOL!!!!!!!!
waits patiently to hear more
brenda m - Jan 26, 2010 12:19:42 pm PST #8001 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
I got paid yesterday for an article I sold...
Oh yes! You definitely deserve a cupcake for that.
-t - Jan 26, 2010 12:33:33 pm PST #8002 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Ooh, I must have skimmed past that. Erika getting paid = the universe getting right.
Vortex - Jan 26, 2010 12:36:43 pm PST #8003 of 30000
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
High BMI=more expensive health care plan.
this is ridiculous. I am technically obese according to the BMI scale, but I go to the doctor once a year for my annual exam (and probably wouldn't bother to do that if I could get BCP any other way). The only major health costs I've had in the last 20 years are fibroid related, which don't have anything to do with weight. But, the skinny kid who smokes a pack a day and eats Mountain Dew and potato chips for lunch is healthier than I am?
billytea - Jan 26, 2010 12:53:57 pm PST #8004 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.
But, the skinny kid who smokes a pack a day and eats Mountain Dew and potato chips for lunch is healthier than I am?
Yeah, but he has to fear the random cheek swabs. Which doesn't sound so bad until you realise they're swabbing random cheeks. (This is a coin toss you really want to come up heads.)
beth b - Jan 26, 2010 1:14:07 pm PST #8005 of 30000
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
I want a cupcake
Hil R. - Jan 26, 2010 1:16:45 pm PST #8006 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
I left a note on my advisor's office door. I know that he got it, because he took it off the door, but he still hasn't gotten back to me.
Steph L. - Jan 26, 2010 1:33:02 pm PST #8007 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
High BMI=more expensive health care plan.
I don't understand how employees can be required to disclose HIPAA-protected information in order to not be forced to pay more for a health plan.
this is ridiculous. I am technically obese according to the BMI scale
My doctor's office sent me a form letter (I don't think it even had my name on it) basically saying "Hi! You're obese, and our nutritionist will be contacting you!"
Riiiiiight. Because, after 38 years, I have NO IDEA WHAT CONSTITUTES HEALTHY EATING.
I can't wait for the nutritionist to contact me, so I can ask how losing weight would make my normal blood pressure, normal blood sugar, and normal cholesterol *better.* (The form letter didn't, of course, note anything about those measurements, because if it did, then it would have forced the doctor's office to look at me as a whole person and not a number from a flawed test never meant to be used on individuals.)
And then I can launch into my rant about the utter absurdity of using the BMI, a population density-based tool, to diagnose individuals.
§ ita § - Jan 26, 2010 1:38:48 pm PST #8008 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
after 38 years, I have NO IDEA WHAT CONSTITUTES HEALTHY EATING
My mother teaches med school students who have no idea what constitutes healthy eating. Food advertising seems contingent upon their target market having no idea what constitutes healthy eating. I've known people who taught exercise classes who didn't know what constituted healthy eating. You are not the majority.