Speaking of The Jilli, I'm being Extremely Impatient and ask here: does anyone know her PayPal account email address and can email it to me?
I'm working my way to a copy of GCS.
I've been out of the abbey two days, I've beaten a lawman senseless, I've fallen in with criminals. I watched the captain shoot the man I swore to protect. And I'm not even sure if I think he was wrong.
Book ,'Serenity'
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.
Shir - Nov 17, 2009 8:01:41 am PST #805 of 30000
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".
Jessica - Nov 17, 2009 8:04:32 am PST #806 of 30000
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
one of the plain ones with the hole in the middle (what are they called?)
I think those are just called tube pans.
I not only have a bundt pan, but I have this absurd 6-cup mini bundt muffin type pan which I've used maybe once in my baking life. It's not useful, but it's so cute!
Nora Deirdre - Nov 17, 2009 8:12:06 am PST #807 of 30000
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)
Did Tom come away from the oyster reletively unscathed?
Yeah, he was fine- I magicked it all away with gin-based cocktails.
ION, Gah- just discovered I made an error that will almost certainly get back to my director who has previously called a meeting with me to discuss my failure at stupid crap like that.
Atropa - Nov 17, 2009 8:29:23 am PST #808 of 30000
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Yay Nora!
Shir, I just saw my email and sent you a reply.
I have a fabulous new hat for today, because friends of mine who run gothy clothing stores love me. 41 is pretty awesome so far.
Steph L. - Nov 17, 2009 8:35:57 am PST #809 of 30000
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
I've hard a sort of ache and feeling of weakness in my left hip/butt. It goes away when I do the stretch Steph mentioned here (all I can remember is the dominatrix part, and not the actual name.)
Ha! It's the piriformis muscle.
Those soldiers are perceived as "broken". It's a huge part of Army culture.
I don't know if anyone here knows (or knows OF) ginmar, on LiveJournal, but she's an Iraq veteran with severe PTSD -- she doesn't drive, and she can't take the bus because it sounds to her exactly like a Humvee and triggers flashbacks and massive panic attacks. So the VA had been providing transportation for her until recently, when they stopped. So now she has no way to get to the VA. She posted about it on DailyKos recently, as well as in her own LJ. It's a shitty, shitty situation.
Frankenbuddha - Nov 17, 2009 8:40:10 am PST #810 of 30000
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Yeah, he was fine- I magicked it all away with gin-based cocktails.
Thank dog for that. I know bad shellfish can do a serious number, but I bet the one he spat out was the offending critter.
Glamcookie - Nov 17, 2009 8:40:51 am PST #811 of 30000
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
Ryan is too adorable!
Congratulations, Nora! I know that is a load off. Woohoo!
Happy birthday, Miss Jilli!
Tep, you turned the board pink!
Aw, I wish I had seen it. Would love a pink board!
Atropa - Nov 17, 2009 8:49:51 am PST #812 of 30000
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Oooh, Pete is taking me to Purple tonight. The place that a bunch of us went during the f2f!
JZ - Nov 17, 2009 8:54:04 am PST #813 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.
ginmar is an amazing writer. Her personal stories and the stories of her friends, the connections she draws between them and larger policy and culture issues for the US military, and the background reading and research she does are awe-inspiring. I've even gotten weirdly fond of her unapologetically abrasive style; some readers seem to just get antagonized and flamey, but there's such a weight of experience and knowledge behind the bristling.
In a completely different way, with a different focus and different background, she's still totally in what I vaguely think of as the Jilli-erika class: how is she still scrabbling for notice instead of being paid buckets of money every time she sets pen to paper?
hippocampus - Nov 17, 2009 8:55:19 am PST #814 of 30000
not your mom's socks.
Happy Birthday Jilli! Congratulations Nora!