I love listening to mystery/suspense stuff like James Patterson or Ken Follet when I'm driving. Oddly, I don't like actually reading those books, but I love listening.
What? She killed 'em with mathematics. What else could it have been?
Jayne ,'Objects In Space'
Natter 66: Get Your Kicks.
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.
ChiKat - May 25, 2010 4:48:12 am PDT #1512 of 30001
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?
Jessica - May 25, 2010 4:51:03 am PDT #1513 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
For long car trips I like lecture series from The Teaching Company, but my family usually outvotes me and we get music instead of, say, History of Religion in the Ancient Mediterranean World. (It's Driver's Choice in our car and I *am* the primary driver, but sometimes you gotta keep the peace.)
Sparky1 - May 25, 2010 4:53:25 am PDT #1514 of 30001
Librarian Warlord
I like audiobooks, but my DH does not. We are not audiobook compatible!
So, on Saturday all the locks in the library were replaced (a custodial worker lost a key ring months ago, and the whole building had to be re-keyed). Saturday.
Someone (who knows nothing about the library) decided along the way that some of us didn't need all the access we had before, so I no longer have a library master key. I am the #2 boss person in the library. I no longer have access to a department I supervise, or to Tech Services (which I don't, but often need to go up there to find things).
Bets on when this gets straightened out?
Steph L. - May 25, 2010 4:57:16 am PDT #1515 of 30001
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Bets on when this gets straightened out?
September.
JZ - May 25, 2010 4:57:38 am PDT #1516 of 30001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Tons of vibes heading Southward to you and K and Noah, Kat.
§ ita § - May 25, 2010 5:03:52 am PDT #1517 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
It's Driver's Choice in our car and I *am* the primary driver, but sometimes you gotta keep the peace.
Shotgun picks the music, driver shuts their cakehole?
It's just not right.
sj - May 25, 2010 5:04:59 am PDT #1518 of 30001
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
I love listening to audiobooks in the car when I am driving from Worcester to Providence. The ride is usually just long enough for one CD. I try to listen to things that I am interested in but that wouldn't be high on my to be read pile. Right now I am having trouble getting through "I Am Charlotte Simmons" which seems to have a gazillion discs, and I just can't seem to care about any of the characters.
Jessica - May 25, 2010 5:07:31 am PDT #1519 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Shotgun picks the music, driver shuts their cakehole?
More like whiny toddler in the back needs his TMBG or all of us suffer. Parenting rules go out the window when you're trapped together in a car for 18 hours.
Aims - May 25, 2010 5:08:47 am PDT #1520 of 30001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Parenting rules go out the window when you're trapped together in a car for 18 hours.
FIVE DAYS.
brenda m - May 25, 2010 5:09:24 am PDT #1521 of 30001
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
Dude, United bumped me into First Class for my flight to Cancun tomorrow. Sometimes being a cog in Big Corporate America is a-okay.