Loki is playing shoes and balls. That is, he's batting around a golfball sized superball and using my shoes strategically and as something to beat the hell out of as the ball rolls across the room. Between this and his walks and his diet rations, WHY IS HE SO FAT?!
And you're sure this isn't just some fanboy thing? 'Cause I've fought more than a couple pimply, overweight vamps that called themselves Lestat.
Buffy ,'Lessons'
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.
sarameg - Nov 02, 2010 3:39:30 pm PDT #3405 of 30001
Jessica - Nov 02, 2010 3:41:09 pm PDT #3406 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I interupt this mature discussion about politics to bring you a photo of the obscene squash from today's CSA haul: [link]
Carry on.
Liese S. - Nov 02, 2010 3:41:51 pm PDT #3407 of 30001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
It cracks me up how sticker oriented I was. I was all, here's my paper GIMME MY STICKER WHOO I HAZ STIKR!
And then we went and taught, wherein we had to resolve yesterday's Stickergate! One of our students just passed her Book #1 and we made a big fuss, and now everyone is all sticker crazy. One of the students has been kinda notorious for skipping ahead in the book, without telling you, so that you think the other person passed him, and you didn't realize. But, kiddo, those songs are in difficulty order, and now you're struggling with the ones you're pretending to play.
So, we started enforcing sticker checks, where if he claimed to be on a page, we looked back to make sure that the previous songs had stickers on them. SO yesterday, as soon as we turned our backs, he pulled off the stickers from the previous songs and put them on the current songs, as if he'd successfully passed them. Only now we're on to his nefarious game, and checked with each other. Did you pass him? Nope. Did you? Nope.
But he's super fragile emotionally, so today was individual lesson day, and the SO decided to give him a save face way to deal with it. Oops, he said, we noticed some of these old pages don't have stickers on them, so we're not sure exactly where you are in the book. Let's go back and make sure we get those down before we move on. So kiddo is super down, because he knows we know, and more because he has to go back and, you know, actually do the work. But he will be much better off for it. And now the SO is signing the pages, "Good job!" like a real music teacher, so he can't even renew his old shenanigans unless he gets good at forging our handwriting.
But, yeah, it's funny how reward oriented we can get, even trival rewards.
Amy - Nov 02, 2010 3:42:24 pm PDT #3408 of 30001
Because books.
I applaud Jessica's insertion (ba-doom-chee) of vegetable porn.
::golf claps::
Connie Neil - Nov 02, 2010 3:49:53 pm PDT #3409 of 30001
brillig
Squash are so shameless.
amych - Nov 02, 2010 3:53:42 pm PDT #3410 of 30001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Yargh. The house race in my district is currently at 49.86% vs. 50.14%. TOO MUCH CLOSE!!
sarameg - Nov 02, 2010 3:57:50 pm PDT #3411 of 30001
This is the slimy robocall I got: [link]
Theodosia - Nov 02, 2010 3:58:14 pm PDT #3412 of 30001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
I'm watching Zoo Confidential on NGC Wild, which is sufficiently non-political that I can go lalala until it's Daily Show time....
shrift - Nov 02, 2010 4:00:13 pm PDT #3413 of 30001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
I interupt this mature discussion about politics to bring you a photo of the obscene squash from today's CSA haul
Rude vegetables are never inappropriate!
...wait.
Polter-Cow - Nov 02, 2010 4:06:06 pm PDT #3414 of 30001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Denver initiative calls for Extraterrestrial Affairs Commission:
Colorado voters are not just considering new laws to cut taxes, declare that a person is created at conception and eliminate insurance mandates in the new health-care law. In Denver, they're voting on whether to protect themselves from extraterrestrial aliens.
Ballot Initiative 300 would require the city to set up an Extraterrestrial Affairs Commission (extracampaign.org) stocked with astrobiologists and other PhD scientists to protect residents from "potential encounters or interactions with extraterrestrial intelligent beings or their vehicles."