-29, now.
I am not...I am not the damsel in distress. I am not some case. I have to work this. I've lived in a cave for 5 years in a world where they killed my kind like cattle. I am not going to be cut down by some monster flu. I am better than that. What a wonder...how very scared I am.
Fred ,'A Hole in the World'
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.
WindSparrow - Jan 21, 2011 4:15:54 am PST #17957 of 30001
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.
tommyrot - Jan 21, 2011 4:20:32 am PST #17958 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
-29, now.
Yeah, that's cold. My last winter in Minneapolis we had about 5 days where it didn't get above -30 or so - there was a three-day waiting list to get your car jump-started.
erikaj - Jan 21, 2011 4:25:02 am PST #17959 of 30001
"already on the kiss-cam with Karl Marx"-
I have no idea, but if I did you'd hate me for it. I think Dita is sexy, but that I'd have a hard time making "sexy" my job the way she does. Yes, even when you're this alluring, you need to turn it off sometimes(as I sit here in my Obama t-shirt)
WindSparrow - Jan 21, 2011 4:27:35 am PST #17960 of 30001
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.
My last winter in Minneapolis we had about 5 days where it didn't get above -30 or so - there was a three-day waiting list to get your car jump-started.
Blinks. I don't think I could cope. Why am I here, again? Hears Daniel making breakfast. Oh, yeah. Love and stuff.
Jesse - Jan 21, 2011 4:32:40 am PST #17961 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
OMG, I can't even imagine that cold! Brrr.
My VP just swung by and saw the three of us (out of 9) who are here. I feel like I've already won the day.
hippocampus - Jan 21, 2011 4:38:33 am PST #17962 of 30001
not your mom's socks.
Day 3 of horrible cold. Please let this be over soon.
§ ita § - Jan 21, 2011 4:38:45 am PST #17963 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
The flexeril helps, but shit. I can't handle the weird fucked up dreams then.
Ugh, that's rough.
I've been getting about four hours a night for the past two weeks. I'm losing it. And I really have to go into the office today, what with the sick day yesterday. But I feel like shit, never mind the pain.
lisah - Jan 21, 2011 4:42:40 am PST #17964 of 30001
Punishingly Intricate
Just catching up...Jilli, I am so sorry. Your family is in my thoughts.
Jesse - Jan 21, 2011 4:45:11 am PST #17965 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
ita, I don't even know how you're upright. At least it's almost the weekend? When you can not-sleep without other obligations?
tommyrot - Jan 21, 2011 5:15:47 am PST #17966 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Sometimes science is just weird.
Clowns Can Help Women Get Pregnant And not just in the obvious way either.
Strange, but true. A recent study led by Shevach Friedler published in the medical journal Fertility and Sterility showed that laughter can promote pregnancy:
To test the idea, the research team had a medical clown visit their fertility clinic periodically over one year. Of the 219 women in the study, half underwent embryo transfer on a day the clown was at the clinic.
During recovery from the procedure, each woman had a 15-minute visit from the clown, who performed a specific routine created by Friedler – who has studied movement and mime – and a colleague.
The researchers found that, compared to women who came to the clinic on a "non-clown" day, those who’d had a laugh were more than twice as likely to become pregnant, when other factors such as age, type of infertility and the number of embryos transferred, were taken into account.