Man, just ascend already.

Willow ,'Chosen'


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.


billytea - Jan 20, 2011 6:32:03 pm PST #17922 of 30001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.

I've found avoiding that show around dinnertime in general is a good idea. Invariably either the manner in which the victim-of-the-week died or the results thereof are in some way reminiscent of the particular meal I'm eating.

Wallybee and I have been watching some of Season 2 over dinner. (It was available at the library, and has subtitles.) The show's nowhere near as dark as Criminal Minds (for instance) - though we've had some pretty disturbing cases over the last couple of nights - but it does like to go for the gruesome. (Doesn't bother me, but I wasn't sure how Wallybee would take it.)


§ ita § - Jan 20, 2011 6:35:12 pm PST #17923 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

CM has creepier people, but Bones has creepy visuals. Though I have to say that the cowrie faces from last night's CM definitely rank with the nastiest shit they've shown me.


Kat - Jan 20, 2011 6:37:37 pm PST #17924 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

billytea, you've been a topic of discussion around our home. Grace gets sign language homework. Sometimes the signs are useful (ice, mama, more, stop, no, yes, help, happy etc.) sometimes not so much. Last week we had to learn penguin and this week we had to learn frog. If nothing else, my daughter could have a broken sign language convo on topics of interest with you!


Nora Deirdre - Jan 20, 2011 6:40:05 pm PST #17925 of 30001
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)

ILU MATT BOMER!

I instantly looked around for the "Like" button when I read this, Dana.


billytea - Jan 20, 2011 6:46:22 pm PST #17926 of 30001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.

billytea, you've been a topic of discussion around our home. Grace gets sign language homework. Sometimes the signs are useful (ice, mama, more, stop, no, yes, help, happy etc.) sometimes not so much. Last week we had to learn penguin and this week we had to learn frog. If nothing else, my daughter could have a broken sign language convo on topics of interest with you!

Hee. Just in time for Penguin Awareness Day!


shrift - Jan 20, 2011 6:49:08 pm PST #17927 of 30001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty

Huh. Guess I'm going to be in San Francisco from June 21-23, and probably in Mountain View the rest of that week.


Burrell - Jan 20, 2011 6:54:43 pm PST #17928 of 30001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!

My husband is laughing at something he's reading on the internet. So's I innocently ask him, "What are you reading?" Answer? "I have no idea."


Cass - Jan 20, 2011 7:00:57 pm PST #17929 of 30001
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.

Answer? "I have no idea."

I can relate.


zuisa - Jan 20, 2011 7:10:01 pm PST #17930 of 30001
call me jacki; zuisa is an internet nick from ancient times =)

I'm getting sort of nervous about leaving for the ship on Saturday. I had a huge blowout with my mother tonight, which was only half-related to the job, but I'm sure I made it worse by being all on-edge and terrified, and that's not really something I can talk to her about. My mother isn't very good at helping you deal with anything that's bothering you, as she invariably gets so upset that you are upset you end up consoling her instead.

The problem tends to be that I start to get nervous and freak out about major changes (and I feel like shipping out to Australia to go live on a boat is a pretty major life change) and I get paranoid. What if I hate it? There's nothing I can do, six month contract is a six month contract. I'm not very good at making friends in the "real" world. I had this amazing bubble of friends at my university and I live in this constant fear that I will never meet people as amazing as they are ever again. And then when I start thinking about how insane it is that I am going literally to the other side of the world to start a job I still know nothing about, I start freaking out that I have no idea what I really want to do with my life and how I don't have any of the things I sort of wanted to have at this age and how I am so far in debt I'll never get out of it and - that's where I am now. What started as normal nervousness has escalated into sheer insanity.

I can't really bring it up with my family, because I'm the "brave" one who runs off and does this sort of thing, and my mother would just start crying because that's what she does when I'm upset. And then tell me I'm ungrateful. That's her other favorite.

So I'm not sure what it is I'm asking for here but I think I just needed to type all that out. Freaking out; trying not to.


§ ita § - Jan 20, 2011 7:15:14 pm PST #17931 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I will never meet people as amazing as they are ever again

You won't, not the same way. But new people are crazy tricksy, and they fit holes you haven't carved out yet.

You're going to have an adventure. That's going to be mighty cool.

Wow, Dita looks demure and shit.