Jesse, I try to block that story from my memory. DAMN YOU!
ita, it is totally you.
My TIVO will not connect. No Gateway found. This is going on 2 weeks and chat help Tivo lady could not help. HATE
Angel: He is dead. Technically, he's undead. It's a zombie. Connor: What's a zombie? Angel: It's an undead thing. Connor: Like you? Angel: No, zombies are slow-moving, dimwitted things that crave human flesh. Connor: Like you. Angel: No! It's different. Trust me.
'Destiny'
Natter 68: Bork Bork Bork
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
msbelle - Jun 02, 2011 5:18:36 pm PDT #11061 of 30001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
Jesse - Jun 02, 2011 5:21:20 pm PDT #11062 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Jesse, I try to block that story from my memory. DAMN YOU!
How could it not come back to me?? Yikes.
P.M. Marc - Jun 02, 2011 5:25:30 pm PDT #11063 of 30001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Giles and House are both on this ep of MI-5. It's kinda weird.
Jools Siviter! My favorite non-primary character on Spooks!
I'd have watched a whole spinoff about him.
Aims - Jun 02, 2011 5:48:55 pm PDT #11064 of 30001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Re: Plan B and not having one is better for your art - Joe's wants to make movies/commercials/etc and be great at it. Great at it enough so that it's what he does to help support our family.
However.
As the one who has been paying the bills through her salary and has been the one who has stressed over our ability to pay for rent, electricity, and food? His plan A is helping support the family he a) chose to build with me and b) is damn well a part of. And he knows it. Which is why, despite hating every minute of it, he spends 11 hours a day, 6 days a week driving a cab. The rest of the time he isn't sleeping, he's applying for other full time jobs.
But I guess I'm lucky in that even though Joe's plan A is being a film maker, he is equally passionate in making sure his family is surviving and he's not deadweight.
Aims - Jun 02, 2011 5:59:39 pm PDT #11065 of 30001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Also, I don't think that the following of dreams and the sacrifices therein apply only to art and artists. Lord knows it would be infinitely easier to finish my degree so that I can follow my - albeit latecoming - dream, but that's just not realistic. We need health insurance. We need food on the table. We need to be productive members of society. It would be different if I was 20 and had no one else to be responsible for - that was why I moved to LA to get discovered. But I'm not. I'm staring 40 right in the face and I have a child who depends on me. I do not have a trust fund or parents who are willing or able to give us money. We've had to ask for it and I hate it. I think it's ri-damn-diculous to be almost 40 and ask my parents (or anyone) for money.
*shrug*
My point is that, if the passion is there, it'll find its way out and it'll get appreciated by whomever you want to appreciate it, dayjob or not. To think that it won't is just indicative of the fear of succeeding. Cause the instant you succeed, people expect you to do it again and it was damn hard work the first time. Trying to do it the second time has got to be agony.
Matt the Bruins fan - Jun 02, 2011 6:11:43 pm PDT #11066 of 30001
Oh honey, the mentally unwell people have been in the fanbase since Game Changers was Stucky fanfiction on the internet. The calls have been coming from inside the house the whole time!
"I know another black chick like you--you're not that special!" I might be extra special, or completely duplicated. Dunno.
Ask her if the other chick she knows had a moon named after her.
Allyson - Jun 02, 2011 6:37:51 pm PDT #11067 of 30001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
Neil DeGrasse Tyson best not diss my Clyde Tombaugh. He can demote Pluto, but DO NOT diss Clyde.
Ha! I should ask him to autograph a photo of Clyde at TAM. I can totally be That Person.
Steph L. - Jun 02, 2011 6:39:25 pm PDT #11068 of 30001
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
As the one who has been paying the bills through her salary and has been the one who has stressed over our ability to pay for rent, electricity, and food? His plan A is helping support the family he a) chose to build with me and b) is damn well a part of. And he knows it. Which is why, despite hating every minute of it, he spends 11 hours a day, 6 days a week driving a cab. The rest of the time he isn't sleeping, he's applying for other full time jobs.
But I guess I'm lucky in that even though Joe's plan A is being a film maker, he is equally passionate in making sure his family is surviving and he's not deadweight.
You are. You really, really are.
Ask her if the other chick she knows had a moon named after her.
Heh. That is kind of the clincher, isn't it?
le nubian - Jun 02, 2011 6:43:53 pm PDT #11069 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
So, can someone tell more about the rabid beavers?
I live nowhere near Philly, but for some reason, I am quite concerned about out of control beavers.
Allyson - Jun 02, 2011 6:49:07 pm PDT #11070 of 30001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
I would love to be a Successful Writer and stand up at TED and do a charming talk on Something Important and be the Invited Speaker at someone charity luncheon. That is totally Plan A.
Plan B is being a respected assistant at a world renowned aerospace lab with a couple of books and a few decent essays under her belt while living in a glamorous city in a decent apartment with enough cash on hand to order tasty takeout a couple nights a week.
Plan B is pretty good.