What should I do, then? Send her a gift? Sacrifice? … Unholy fruit basket?

Angel ,'Just Rewards (2)'


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.


flea - Jun 21, 2011 6:46:19 am PDT #13573 of 30001
information libertarian

Summer vacation for public school starts May 19 here. We don't count it as summer weather until it hits 90 degrees, but we do usually get there in May. We're actually nearly halfway through "summer break" right now - it's week 5 at the YMCA summer camp, of 10. And we start back to school August 8, but we are mostly guaranteed 90 degree weather until mid-September.

It does seem deeply wrong to me to have "back to school," with fall clothes in the catalogs, all corduroys and sweaters and plaid, when it's 95 degrees, but we are indeed already back to school.


Calli - Jun 21, 2011 6:59:46 am PDT #13574 of 30001
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

strong, competitive, dominant, wealthy, good at fixing machinery, lots of sexual partners, enjoys sports, big dick that gets hard on demand.

There's very little there that I'd look for in a man, and more than one item that I'd find a turn-off (specifically: competitive, dominant, lots of sexual partners*).

 *Depending on how "lots" is defined.


msbelle - Jun 21, 2011 7:02:47 am PDT #13575 of 30001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

Aims feel free to pick my mind.

I have an interview for a job tomorrow. Another parttime, but much closer to home and hopefully not so crazy. Fingers crossed.


zuisa - Jun 21, 2011 7:05:21 am PDT #13576 of 30001
call me jacki; zuisa is an internet nick from ancient times =)

Public schools aren't even out yet where I am. It was a particularly rough winter and so they are making up a LOT of missed time. But then they don't go back to school here until early September, so it all works out.

It doesn't feel too much like summer here, though!


Jesse - Jun 21, 2011 7:05:25 am PDT #13577 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Good luck, msbelle!

I get that there is an unreachable "ideal" for men, but what's pernicious (Pernicious!!) is how TV especially is full of men who don't meet that ideal, but are partnered with women who meet theirs, or at least are much closer than the men are.


msbelle - Jun 21, 2011 7:07:27 am PDT #13578 of 30001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

Agree with Calli. Competant, helpful, listens, at ease.


Sue - Jun 21, 2011 7:08:21 am PDT #13579 of 30001
hip deep in pie

I find now that I am not in school and working mostly through summers, I notice the beginning of them less. Our weather is usually so crap in May/June (and this year it's been colder and rainier than usual) that I spend a lot of time waiting for summer to happen. I guess it really doesn't feel like summer until the end of June, when kids are out of school and it's more likely to be warm.

It's so cold at work these days I am dressing for indoors. Long pants, warm shirts, cardigan, scarf. It's probably 16C in here. Brrrr.


msbelle - Jun 21, 2011 7:10:34 am PDT #13580 of 30001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

Sue should come to tx, were hitting 100.


Sue - Jun 21, 2011 7:15:53 am PDT #13581 of 30001
hip deep in pie

Is is a dry heat?


Amy - Jun 21, 2011 7:19:39 am PDT #13582 of 30001
Because books.

I know summer's coming on Memorial Day, but it always feels like official summer when school is out for the kids. Summer is definitely a "no school" thing more than a weather thing for me.