I love the smell of desperate librarian in the morning.

Snyder ,'Showtime'


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.


amyth - Sep 21, 2011 4:26:44 am PDT #29934 of 30000
And none of us deserving the cruelty or the grace -- Leonard Cohen

I'm not going to change that much money, but I want to have a little bit of money in my pocket when I land.

And to do a trial packing run, to make sure I can fit everything in my smaller suitcase.

I would take my carry-on, but my carry-on is micro-small. I don't think I can get away with it for two weeks. Though I'm tempted.


Toddson - Sep 21, 2011 4:53:42 am PDT #29935 of 30000
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"

Some Nice News to start off a gloomy day.


Polter-Cow - Sep 21, 2011 6:18:54 am PDT #29936 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

Have a smonsterrific birthday, smonster!


beekaytee - Sep 21, 2011 8:15:59 am PDT #29937 of 30000
Compassionately intolerant

Todd, thank you so much for that link! I have written my appreciation to Theresa Berg and will forward that CBS news piece to both the DC shelters and WARL. Hers is an idea (and a common-sensical use of time and talent) whose time has come.

Happiest of days smonster! And may this be your very best year so far.


WindSparrow - Sep 21, 2011 9:25:20 am PDT #29938 of 30000
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.

I'm skipping... Thank you all for your support and good vibes.

There's something I'm kinda freaked out about - when I checked the mail today (alright, it was the first time I opened the mail box since Saturday) in addition to the expected stack of mail, there was also a handful of cheese flavored popcorn loose in the box. I'm 95% sure it was some ridiculous kid (of whatever age) but there's that 5% that's creeped the f*** out.


amyth - Sep 21, 2011 9:30:44 am PDT #29939 of 30000
And none of us deserving the cruelty or the grace -- Leonard Cohen

Andi, that's...odd.


erikaj - Sep 21, 2011 9:40:31 am PDT #29940 of 30000
Always Anti-fascist!

The part with the family went...fine. Maybe a little better than expected. I wish I could say it was great, but I'm over sweating those relationships.


Laga - Sep 21, 2011 10:24:23 am PDT #29941 of 30000
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.

I realize I haven't checked in in ages. Lately I feel like I never know the right thing to say- I enter text and then hit 'message center' out of fear of saying the wrong thing. So know that I love you all but I seem to be in 'Lurk' mode for Bitches.


Hil R. - Sep 21, 2011 1:07:29 pm PDT #29942 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

I'm getting annoyed. My students have a midterm coming up. All the students taking this course with any instructor take the same midterm. Generally, the procedure is that each class is assigned to a room, with all the classes that have the same instructor assigned to the same room. The instructor picks up the exams from the math office that day, brings them all to the testing room, gives them to the students, and collects them at the end of the exam time.

The exam room schedule was posted yesterday, and not only are my students not all assigned to the same room like they usually are, they're spread out among six different rooms in six different buildings. I asked how this is supposed to work, since I clearly can't give exams in six different places at once, and I was told that there would be proctors assigned to each room, and I would "float" among the rooms to answer any questions that the students had. This would work fine if my students were in a few different rooms in the same building, like some instructors have. But I've got six different buildings, which are pretty far apart from each other, so if I wanted to get to all of them during the exam time, I'd have no more than a minute or two in each room. Which is clearly not going to work. Every time I've tried to talk to someone to get a solution, or at least an answer to "If the rooms do stay like this, where am I supposed to be during the exam?" I either get told to talk to someone else (who I've already talked to) or told that the rooms are final and complaints won't get them changed.


amyth - Sep 21, 2011 1:09:53 pm PDT #29943 of 30000
And none of us deserving the cruelty or the grace -- Leonard Cohen

WTF, Hil? Are they trying to make things impossible for you?