Hey, don't worry about it. Nest full of vampires, you come get me, okay. Box full of puppies, that's more of a judgement call.

Jonathan ,'Lies My Parents Told Me'


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.


Toddson - Mar 01, 2011 8:31:50 am PST #25802 of 30001
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"

heh ... someone posted an article about Charlie Sheen in the office kitchen - basically little bits and pieces. One - the last if you read it top to bottom, left to right - is a quote from John Stamos, the gist of which was that no, he wasn't replacing Charlie Sheen on the show, but that Martin Sheen had called and asked him to be his son.


§ ita § - Mar 01, 2011 8:32:45 am PST #25803 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

My sister had been ignoring Charlie Sheen, so I gave her a brief primer. I love Skype, because I got to see the look on her face.

I did read that CBS will be paying the crew, which is good.

My father used to have a bar in his office. There are perks to the diplomatic corps, even third tier.


hippocampus - Mar 01, 2011 8:37:51 am PST #25804 of 30001
not your mom's socks.

where she's said things like "this is my fault. If I'd been a better mother, you'd be a better daughter."

Last year, my mom wrote an email that said something like "my one regret is not raising my daughter to listen to differing views in a fair and balanced manner." She wrote that email to my DH. And then followed with a list of other ways in which I'm disappointing to her.

Currently, a year later, things are much, muchmuchmuch worse and overflowing with added guilt. She's told my sister I've abandoned her, and that I haven't spoken to her in weeks. Despite speaking to me on the phone last week. She's playing some money games on the side, so something she offered to pay for, then decided to only half-pay for, we've decided we could finance ourselves with less stress and scrambling - plus we figured she needed the money for something else. So we just this morning got an email telling us how horrid I am for rebuffing their gift.

I am in the crazy aisle with Vortex. I hate it.

Sparky, before you ask, yes he's talking with recruiters out of state. Oh, and apparently my parents are planning a delightful elderhostel getaway with yours. Unless the crazy is overflowing there too.

  • ******

tons of job~ma for DH Amy.


Gudanov - Mar 01, 2011 8:45:26 am PST #25805 of 30001
Coding and Sleeping

Lots of job~ma Amy!


Ginger - Mar 01, 2011 8:45:40 am PST #25806 of 30001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda

I don't want to resign, but I might, because I don't want to be around crazy people.

She really is sadly deluded if she thinks there are workplaces without crazy people.

I had a night city editor who kept a bottle in his desk. He never offered me any, partly because things like women in the newsroom were why he drank.


DavidS - Mar 01, 2011 8:49:02 am PST #25807 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Last year, my mom wrote an email that said something like "my one regret is not raising my daughter to listen to differing views in a fair and balanced manner." She wrote that email to my DH. And then followed with a list of other ways in which I'm disappointing to her.

Ha! I'm sorry, but I have to say, "Fuck you, Sox's mom! Sox is awesome."

Sorry, Sox. She had it coming.


Ginger - Mar 01, 2011 8:51:36 am PST #25808 of 30001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda

I would like to applaud Sox for managing to be a much better person than the one her mother wanted her to be.


Scrappy - Mar 01, 2011 8:57:55 am PST #25809 of 30001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

Hear hear.


Burrell - Mar 01, 2011 8:57:59 am PST #25810 of 30001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!

I've been crazy busy so I know I must have missed a ton of stuff. And I'm about to dive back into grading and office hours, but I am just weighing in on the parenting: My mom was a wonderful mother. When I was a child, I thought she was the Platonic ideal of motherliness.


Daisy Jane - Mar 01, 2011 8:59:33 am PST #25811 of 30001
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."

I just got called out as a project manager on a friend's facebook page.

It seems diagramming your friend's relationship/family status is a dead giveaway.