The systems for delivering packages where a signature is required are really not designed for people who live alone and work during the day. It looks like my options are either to pre-sign and let them leave my package on the porch (which I would do for cheaper things, but this is a new MacBook Pro, so, no) or to go to the FedEx office after work. At least they're open until 7:30 -- when I had something similar with the post office, I had to wait until I had a day off before I could go pick it up.
What is your childhood trauma?
Cordelia ,'Lessons'
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.
Hil R. - Oct 26, 2010 2:05:18 pm PDT #6701 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
WindSparrow - Oct 26, 2010 2:06:26 pm PDT #6702 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.
It confuses the hell out of me that the U.S. federal government's fiscal year starts on October 1. Which fiscal year are we in? I mean, budget-y stuff that happens now that the new "year" has started, does it get chalked up in stats for fiscal year 2010 or 2011? What I am trying to figure out is, when the deficit increased in 2009, was that the budget that Bush had approved as a lame duck in calendar year 2008, or was that actually Obama's first turn at bat?
Trudy Booth - Oct 26, 2010 2:13:02 pm PDT #6703 of 30000
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
Cuban spitfire? Ptooey.
Well, that was the spitting...
Polter-Cow - Oct 26, 2010 2:18:38 pm PDT #6704 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Cuban spitfire? Ptooey.
You're especially good at expectorating.
Steph L. - Oct 26, 2010 2:22:02 pm PDT #6705 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
I use antlers in all of my decorating!
Polter-Cow - Oct 26, 2010 2:24:06 pm PDT #6706 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
As a specimen, yes, I'm intimidating!
Dana - Oct 26, 2010 2:27:15 pm PDT #6707 of 30000
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
We just started FY2011.
erikaj - Oct 26, 2010 2:32:47 pm PDT #6708 of 30000
Always Anti-fascist!
I know, Barb, isn't that gross? It would almost make me feel bad for her, except I think she wants something from the wider world because a man made up a lame excuse and never called her again. That is, if she didn't make it up.
WindSparrow - Oct 26, 2010 2:39:29 pm PDT #6709 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.
Thanks, Dana!
Hil R. - Oct 26, 2010 2:43:57 pm PDT #6710 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 trying to decide whether or not to go to the national math conference this year. It's in New Orleans, which makes me want to go. But, unlike the past two years, I don't really have any reason to go -- I'm not presenting anything, and I'm not interviewing. I looked at the schedule of talks, and while there are some that look interesting, there's nothing that makes me say "I've got to hear that." The timing makes it difficult, but not impossible -- it's in the few days before classes start next semester, so I'd have to do all my prep the week before, and I'd have to fly home on Sunday and start teaching on Monday, and I wouldn't have any time either before or after the conference to do non-conference stuff in New Orleans.