Please let the traffic not be fucked again tonight. I just want to get to the pool early. It's not too much to ask, right?
Plus bonus points for use of the word 'mosey'.
Oz ,'Same Time, Same Place'
Natter 65: Speed Limit Enforced by Aircraft
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, pandas, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
sarameg - Mar 05, 2010 11:56:26 am PST #13615 of 30001
javachik - Mar 05, 2010 11:57:47 am PST #13616 of 30001
Our wings are not tired.
So Allyson, does that mean you're going with Lulu for Sam?
-t - Mar 05, 2010 11:57:51 am PST #13617 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I feel like awesomecake with awesomesauce.
I'm glad. I always figure a decision that makes your stomach unclench is probably a good one.
Allyson - Mar 05, 2010 12:04:16 pm PST #13618 of 30001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
There were two more leads and one publisher being monumentally slow in getting back to me with a maybe.
So I set a shit-or-get-off-the-pot deadline. I keep hearing about how "this is how the business works."
Yep, leave writers hanging on broken promises for days, weeks, maybe a month or six.
So I just said, "look, I don't care about money, so here's the date I need you to get back to me so I can go POD in time for summer."
I just really needed to have some control over the sitch.
Steph L. - Mar 05, 2010 12:05:13 pm PST #13619 of 30001
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
I am washing my gigantic shower curtain (it goes all the way around the tub, because it's a pedestal tub with a shower curtain ring) in the washing machine for the first time ever. I hope I don't destroy the curtain or the washing machine.
Though given the choice, I'd take a destroyed curtain over a destroyed machine.
Also, we are out of bleach.
And I'm going to make an apple crisp. (That isn't related to the shower curtain, just part of my brain infodump.)
javachik - Mar 05, 2010 12:05:17 pm PST #13620 of 30001
Our wings are not tired.
I just really needed to have some control over the sitch.
Understandable.
Steph L. - Mar 05, 2010 12:06:32 pm PST #13621 of 30001
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
I totally x-posted with Allyson -- I think making the decision that made your stomach unclench is the right decision. And I can't wait to be able to buy Sam!
Gudanov - Mar 05, 2010 12:09:18 pm PST #13622 of 30001
Coding and Sleeping
So I just said, "look, I don't care about money, so here's the date I need you to get back to me so I can go POD in time for summer."
In my totally uninformed opinion, summer doesn't sound very far away. You should do what's best for you, but that doesn't seem like a long time for the slow turning wheels of business.
Lee - Mar 05, 2010 12:13:17 pm PST #13623 of 30001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
I'm glad you came to a decision that feels right to you, Allyson.
What are people doing this weekend?
§ ita § - Mar 05, 2010 12:14:46 pm PST #13624 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
So the wait for my simple order was huge. I can't decide if I'm arsed enough to tip adversely (yeah, I've been told it doesn't work--I don't care) or actually say something. She saw my dirty looks.