I swear, Vortex could make a good living just as a consumer/patient/worker advocate.
"Feeling hammered by bureaucracy? You need a bigger hammer. Call Vortex 555-5555."
Everybody dies, Tracey. Someone's carrying a bullet for you right now, doesn't even know it. The trick is to die of old age before it finds you.
Mal ,'The Message'
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.
DavidS - Nov 08, 2010 7:23:14 am PST #7829 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Seska (the Watcher-in-Training) - Nov 08, 2010 7:30:14 am PST #7830 of 30000
"We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh?"
That's good, Vortex, although I'm writing my own strongly-worded complaint to the university, and it's a long one.
Barb - Nov 08, 2010 7:41:42 am PST #7831 of 30000
“Not dead yet!”
Give 'em hell, Seska.
Beverly - Nov 08, 2010 7:43:50 am PST #7832 of 30000
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Vortex does have a unique ability to see to the heart of the problem, and an elegant way with a hammer.
Sort their socks, Seska.
WindSparrow - Nov 08, 2010 7:49:57 am PST #7833 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.
Get 'em, Seska!
brenda m - Nov 08, 2010 8:00:42 am PST #7834 of 30000
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
Good on you, Seska.
I need motivation. Spent the weekend up in Sturgeon Bay in a lovely house on the bay, saw the Packers stomp the Cowboys last night, and now I need to gear up to clean this place up and hit the road for the four-hour drive back to Chicago. Don't wanna.
Dude, some kid just nearly called the pound on me for leaving Frankie outside the store for FIVE MINUTES. It's 50 degrees, he has a sweater, and oh yeah, fur. Am I nuts? That's acceptable; right?
He was worried about the cold? That's kind of nuts.
In my old neighborhood there was a terrible problem with dogs being stolen from outside of stores by dog-fighting operations. Ghastly. I got largely out of the habit of doing that at the time, and would occasionally wait with a dog that was tied up just to give the owner a heads-up if they didn't know.
Vortex - Nov 08, 2010 8:01:26 am PST #7835 of 30000
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
That's good, Vortex, although I'm writing my own strongly-worded complaint to the university, and it's a long one.
It should be! I was trying to be British in my response, as you all tend to be nicer than we are here :)
Barb - Nov 08, 2010 8:05:15 am PST #7836 of 30000
“Not dead yet!”
Just realized it's two weeks, one day until book release.
Just realized it's the reason I'm in perpetual state of nausea.
Carry on.
DavidS - Nov 08, 2010 8:09:29 am PST #7837 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Hey Ple!
You can see Molly Dodd on YouTube, including my pick for the most romantic TV moment of all-time. David Straitharn as Moss (who I now realize probably had Asperger's) and Blair Brown as Molly, discuss bookstore business and Ingrid Bergman.
meara - Nov 08, 2010 8:11:12 am PST #7838 of 30000
It should be! I was trying to be British in my response, as you all tend to be nicer than we are here :)
Oh dear lord, remind me never to move there, I'd send them all screaming! I have a hard enough time with the West Coast, where they are rather less aggro than the East (or, as I like to think of it, way less straightforward, direct, and prompt, in their language!)