Congrats Drew on getting rid of the feeding tube and your imminent return home!
Gunn: The final score can't be rigged. I don't care how many players you grease, that last shot always comes up a question mark. But here's the thing. You never know when you're taking it. It could be when you're duking it out with the Legion of Doom, or just crossing the street deciding where to have brunch. So you just treat it like it was up to you—the world in balance—'cause you never know when it is.
'Underneath'
Spike's Bitches 46: Don't I get a cookie?
[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.
Burrell - Sep 15, 2010 8:28:21 pm PDT #2856 of 30000
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
DavidS - Sep 15, 2010 8:44:22 pm PDT #2857 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I knew that was going to be Eve Salvail, ita.
meara - Sep 15, 2010 9:42:58 pm PDT #2858 of 30000
FWIW, I am wearing a butch cami right now, AIFG.
Shir - Sep 15, 2010 9:47:55 pm PDT #2859 of 30000
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".
Drew and Kristin, I'm so glad to hear the good news for the both of you.
{{bonny}}, you're in my thoughts. I'm so sorry you have to go through all of this.
ION, I want to kill whoever decided yesterday that the bus of 23:40 doesn't have to exist. I waited in that bus stop for 30 minutes last night, instead of seven. So it took me two hours to get back home from swing dance class, with the Clinton traffic (whenever there's a major minister/PM/President in Jerusalem... we're fucked, traffic-wise). Oh, the gronk.
Shir - Sep 15, 2010 9:55:04 pm PDT #2860 of 30000
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".
And oh, Barb, the site looks wonderful! Congrats!
omnis_audis - Sep 15, 2010 10:27:11 pm PDT #2861 of 30000
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir
FWIW, I am wearing a butch cami right now, AIFG.
Tease!
Laga - Sep 15, 2010 10:40:09 pm PDT #2862 of 30000
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
FWIW, I am wearing a butch cami right now, AIFG.
my sistah! (mine's grey)
Seska (the Watcher-in-Training) - Sep 15, 2010 10:49:32 pm PDT #2863 of 30000
"We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh?"
Quandry. Hive-mind help from volunteers and activists much appreciated. I volunteer for a small but fast-growing organization that shall remain nameless. I support its aims and activities entirely, but the way it's being run is starting to do my head in, and to affect me on an inclusion level. The latest plan for communication between volunteers is one that I can't participate in for disability reasons. I've mentioned the words 'reasonable adjustments' (a legal term under the UK's Disability Discrimination Act, meaning accommodations) in an e-mail. I'm not sure the inclusion point is even beginning to come across, though, because of the way the organization is run and structured. Part of me wants to quit - it's a voluntary post. Part of me wants to try to hang in there and see if practices can be reformed. But I don't know if it's too late - if the org has been established in this decisions-made-by-one-or-two-people style, and will continue this way. (Am I making any sense at all?)
erika, I get your point about the r-word. And it's hard for me not to use what I see as slightly more neutral terms like 'idiot', so I see the problem when a word's familiar. But I have friends with learning disabilities who hate the r-word, and I value their opinion, so I try not to use it. I'm not so good at asking others not to use it. Partly I don't think that's my responsibility, and I'm partly I'm a fraidy-cat on a personal level. Despite being able to protest many things in large groups (preferably with chains at the ready to attach ourselves to buses).
Pix, fantastic news for you and Drew. Must be such a relief to be getting out of the hospital. I hope you have some help with looking after him at home!
Shir - Sep 16, 2010 3:11:51 am PDT #2864 of 30000
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".
Seska, if I understood your post right, you're more than right to be angry and frustrated with the org's behavior. Since I'm a very polite and quiet person, if I were you, I'd send a very firm, even aggressive email, telling them that I have, sadly, to quit if the organization won't allow a change to allow more people to volunteer at - and mention that you'd like to see if there's any way you can help with that change, but that you don't feel as if it's a priority for them.
Anyway, in your shoes, I'd write that email, send it to Big People there, and wait and see what will happen. The important thing is not to fight windmills - you have only so much energy to fight for a better world, and you should do it on your own terms. I think.
sj - Sep 16, 2010 3:12:00 am PDT #2865 of 30000
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Seska, I have no advice for you but good luck figuring out what to do.
I just woke up and I am already annoyed. A family friend is getting married, and I offered to do the bathroom baskets for her. Little baskets with things like safety pins, hand lotion, etc that the wedding guests might need etc. And now I am being micromanaged by her. I've done a million of these, and I know what I am doing, plus it's a gift. It is possible that I am more easily annoyed than I should be because of being sick.