Oh god, please no brackety hugs and shit. SERIOUSLY.
Fred: So you don't worry that it's possible for someone to send out a biological or electronic trigger that effectively overrides your own sense of ideals and values and replaces them with an alternative coercive agenda that reduces you to a mindless meat puppet? Shopkeeper: Wow. People used to think that I was paranoid.
'Time Bomb'
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.
Steph L. - Sep 23, 2010 5:30:20 am PDT #3743 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Cashmere - Sep 23, 2010 5:32:52 am PDT #3744 of 30000
Now tagless for your comfort.
Teppy, I want to crawl into bed and hide under the covers for a day, myself.
I also drive WAY TOO fast and am pushing my luck on a speeding ticket.
Steph L. - Sep 23, 2010 5:34:46 am PDT #3745 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
I also drive WAY TOO fast and am pushing my luck on a speeding ticket.
It's a numbers game with me -- not IF, but WHEN I'll get a ticket. I'm actually surprised that I don't get stopped more often. (This is the first ticket in a couple-few years.)
Sparky1 - Sep 23, 2010 5:40:28 am PDT #3746 of 30000
Librarian Warlord
Seeing those flashing lights in your mirrors causes anxiety that is disproportionate to the speeding sin, so it's understandable that it wrecked you for a while, Steph.
While you didn't scream at the officer, I came in this morning to find out that one of the professors did scream at our student workers last night (for something not their fault) and she's totally being a shit about it this morning.
What went wrong? A link to a web page wouldn't work last night and she totally flipped out.
sj - Sep 23, 2010 5:50:45 am PDT #3747 of 30000
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Teppy, I'm sorry. No hugs, but I will say that it is totally understandable. You've had a lot going on, and being pulled over by a cop for any reason (deserved or not) is always traumatic imho.
Can I have a little bit of job~ma for TCG? I don't want to take it from people that are out of work, but he is applying for a job this week that would definitely be a step up toward what he really wants to be doing and the commute would be SO much better.
Connie Neil - Sep 23, 2010 5:59:09 am PDT #3748 of 30000
brillig
I had weird dreams last night and woke up going, "Oh, god, no, please, I want to sleep." Not the way a season should start. Fall's my favorite season, and it's let me down. Perhaps it will be all good from here.
Calli - Sep 23, 2010 6:00:14 am PDT #3749 of 30000
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Certainly--job~ma to TCG!
Steph, I'm sorry you got pulled this morning. It's definitely something that can ruin your morning, but I hope the rest of the day goes better.
-t - Sep 23, 2010 6:03:28 am PDT #3750 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Get-through-the-day~ma, Tep
Job~ma for TCG
Strix - Sep 23, 2010 6:08:29 am PDT #3751 of 30000
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Ugh, I have flipped my shit about tickets FOR SURE. All that guilt adrenalin just bites.
Back from gym. I have not been in one in....seriously. I can't remember. 2004?
I remember liking the elliptical a lot, but now that have TV with cable on each one! And heart monitors on the handles. Neato.
I also got rid of the very last of all the glass recycling the ex left in the yard for us (thanks, Ms. I Am So Eco, I Bleed Green - pfft on you. And I'm gonna wash the dog, then eat some leftover pot roast. Yummy.
Connie Neil - Sep 23, 2010 6:15:27 am PDT #3752 of 30000
brillig
Whenever a cop pulls in behind me, I have to do the "lights are on, registration's current, I'm doing the speed limit, don't panic and do something dumb" chant. But it's a tense few blocks until he changes lane and eases up behind someone else to see if he can spook them into something stupid.