{{{amyth}}} I agree with everyone else; your brain is just keeping the rest of you safe, disconnecting you from the full weight of all the badness so you can keep functioning and soldier on until you get to a place and time where it's safe to collapse. At which point you'll have about a billion offers of sympathetic ears and shoulders and comforts of any sort you need. I just wish you didn't need it. And the universe needs to back off you and all your beloveds NOW.
Take me, sir. Take me hard.
Zoe ,'War Stories'
Natter 67: Overriding Vetoes
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, nail polish, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
JZ - Jan 20, 2011 10:00:08 am PST #17798 of 30001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
DavidS - Jan 20, 2011 10:00:12 am PST #17799 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I'm going to go write the note I was supposed to do "after the holidays."
::checks::
It's still after the holidays. You're good.
Liese S. - Jan 20, 2011 10:04:06 am PST #17800 of 30001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Yeah, I've got a bunch of stuff to do today but am having trouble doing it. I want a nap. And some tea. Not in that order.
Liese S. - Jan 20, 2011 10:08:49 am PST #17801 of 30001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Hee. So there's this high school friend who is geektastic and is exactly like all of you. And she just posted on facebook: "My boss just interrupted me intently browsing Google Image's search results for "sharktopus". He didn't say a word."
sumi - Jan 20, 2011 10:11:13 am PST #17802 of 30001
Art Crawl!!!
NatGeo says that today is Penguin Awareness Day.
Polter-Cow - Jan 20, 2011 10:12:13 am PST #17803 of 30001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Most people I know who have heard from the FBI have friends undergoing background checks for federal employment, but they usually call, rather than go door to door.
Yeah, it's an interesting phone call that begins, "Hi, I'm Agent So-and-so." And then you meet her for coffee.
javachik - Jan 20, 2011 10:14:15 am PST #17804 of 30001
Our wings are not tired.
Hee. So there's this high school friend who is geektastic and is exactly like all of you. And she just posted on facebook: "My boss just interrupted me intently browsing Google Image's search results for "sharktopus". He didn't say a word."
That sounds like our office! I am headed to Florida on Sunday (for work) and so of course the colleagues are all telling each other scary croc stories. And that culminated in an image search for scary crocs (and alligators). And of course my CEO walks up right then...
...to give me a print-out of his nephew's new contract with the Oakland A's!
beekaytee - Jan 20, 2011 10:14:55 am PST #17805 of 30001
Compassionately intolerant
Most people I know who have heard from the FBI have friends undergoing background checks for federal employment, but they usually call, rather than go door to door.
I've lost count of the number of background checks I've been contacted for. The last one was while I was super, super sick in September. The agent was a nice enough guy and all, but he insisted on coming here to meet with me. When he arrived, he asked me one question (usually, it would be 3 questions) an then left. He wasn't even here for 5 minutes and could easily have asked me that one dumb question over the phone.
It's not like cleaning myself up was BAD for me on that day, but it did seem to be a wasted effort.
quester - Jan 20, 2011 10:15:32 am PST #17806 of 30001
Danger is my middle name, only I spell it R. u. t. h. - Tina Belcher.
{{{{{{{amyth}}}}}}
msbelle, in my experience things get harder the longer you put them off.
Jesse - Jan 20, 2011 10:18:39 am PST #17807 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Sharktopus came up at my department lunch today, too! Weird.
It's still after the holidays. You're good.
Well, yeah. And who knows which holidays they meant! It's not even Evacuation Day yet! (Which day -- 3/17 -- I do have to work, but at least we get Patriots Day off....)