Very convincing. Makes me completely want to put myself under government control. Please take me to where you can make me unconscious and naked.

Riley ,'Help'


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.


meara - Jan 24, 2011 1:30:19 pm PST #18715 of 30001

Don't make us get our hate on, billytea.

Cost-wise, termites would seem to beat my "you need a $500 crown" in the ever-exciting "Mondays SUCK! Sweepstakes" I am, however, amused at the plans for a possible "I know from bugs" career.

{ETA: That should be "beat my" not "be my"!}


billytea - Jan 24, 2011 1:34:06 pm PST #18716 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.

Don't make us get our hate on, billytea.

I am also pleased to report that I will be attending both the women's and men's singles finals at the Australian Open this weekend. Wish me Rafa!


Jesse - Jan 24, 2011 1:38:47 pm PST #18717 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Wow, those cakes are great!

Apparently I have the wrong kind of cough for the Delsym. Booo.


Daisy Jane - Jan 24, 2011 1:41:38 pm PST #18718 of 30001
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."

I am in awe that I know someone who can do shit like that! One of the cakes in the shape of a bottle of Jack is actually flavored with Jack Daniels. I wish I'd known her back when Jon and I got married, because I love her wedding cakes.


JZ - Jan 24, 2011 1:45:09 pm PST #18719 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.

Those are some fine, fine looking cakes.

If you really want to tilt at the windmill that is my filth-resistant brain, ita, by all means go to. I would never deny you any harmless pleasure. I might be baffled, but I wouldn't deny.

ION, I came in to work today sneezing and snuffly and admitted that I'd had a really savage allergy attack over the weekend. The nurse practitioner immediately said, "What are you allergic to? Do you sneeze more when you're here? Is there anything we can do to make it better? I know, I should call Housekeeping and make sure they come in here and vacuum more often; the rugs can't be good for you. Would that help?"

There was no berating, no shaming, no accusation that I was trying to blow her eardrums out or sicken her or make her lose her appetite or force her to murder me. It's like I'm living in some crazy nonsensical land where no conversation ever goes the way I expect it to. I don't get it.


Typo Boy - Jan 24, 2011 1:49:44 pm PST #18720 of 30001
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.

JZ, worse, what if you get used to working around others who, like you, are loving caring human beings? How demented would that be?


tommyrot - Jan 24, 2011 1:50:06 pm PST #18721 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.

Maybe you're living in crazy melty land....


Burrell - Jan 24, 2011 1:50:45 pm PST #18722 of 30001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!

The Princess Industrial Complex

Whatev. Little girls like princesses? Srsly who cares? Yeah, some girls like princesses, and some grow out of it and some don't. Big woo.

For some reason this is hitting my Substanceless Cultural War Topics button, maybe it's that it's coming so hard and fast on the heels of that Chinese Mom book.


JZ - Jan 24, 2011 1:54:32 pm PST #18723 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.

Maybe you're living in crazy melty land....

Our cafeteria has shrimp ceviche today, so we can rule out the World Without Shrimp.

TB, it's just... weird, with the "Please" and the "Thank you" and the "Good job" and stuff. What's their angle here?


Hil R. - Jan 24, 2011 1:55:26 pm PST #18724 of 30001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

One of my students came in to my office today to take a makeup quiz, and she didn't have anywhere for her daughter to go during that time, so she brought her daughter with her. I ended up playing with the daughter (age 2 or so) while her mother was taking the quiz, which was fun (we played with the Sesame Street website), but I was somewhat puzzled that the mother would bring her toddler somewhere where she'd have to sit down and entertain herself for a while, and didn't bring so much as a coloring book and crayons.