Yeah, I managed to escape the snow by late January, but December and January were really just a big snowy mess. It made arriving in the sunny Southern Hemisphere all the more exciting!
Welcome to the Hellmouth petting zoo.
Buffy ,'Beneath You'
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.
zuisa - Jun 21, 2011 7:38:07 am PDT #13589 of 30001
call me jacki; zuisa is an internet nick from ancient times =)
Strix - Jun 21, 2011 7:42:31 am PDT #13590 of 30001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Jesse, that is INSANE late, even with snow days! I hope they don't have to go back until after Labor Day.
I hate when schools go back in the beginning of August. It just doesn't feel right.
You go back to school in September! In the fall, at least month-wise.
You should still be swimming and watching TV on August 15th.
Consuela - Jun 21, 2011 7:45:05 am PDT #13591 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
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.
Word, Jesse. Also commercials and movies: the hapless guy who is a slob and just wants to watch sports and eat Doritos, married to a pretty harridan who makes him take his feet off the coffee table.
As long as Judd Apatow keeps making hugely-popular movies, I will not believe that the social construction of masculinity is more damaging than the social construction of femininity.
msbelle - Jun 21, 2011 7:47:16 am PDT #13592 of 30001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
Not a real dry heat, but not ny or no humid.
Tom Scola - Jun 21, 2011 7:48:27 am PDT #13593 of 30001
They pay me in WOIMS
I just blocked off my vacation time at work. Three weeks, August 29-Sept 18. Now I need to figure out where to go.
megan walker - Jun 21, 2011 7:48:30 am PDT #13594 of 30001
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
I hate when schools go back in the beginning of August. It just doesn't feel right.
I would kill for my high school schedule: Classes start mid-September with exams at the end of May and almost the entire month of March off for Spring vacation.
Consuela - Jun 21, 2011 7:49:35 am PDT #13595 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
It's quite warm here today--supposed to hit 90 in the East Bay. So of course I'm wearing a summer dress with a cashmere-blend cardigan in my freezing office. Sigh.
I don't have a great deal of work right now, and I have a writing project I'm working on. How evil would it be if I spent some time scribbling notes for this story, rather than working? Hmm. Probably no less evil than posting on B.org, I suspect.
tommyrot - Jun 21, 2011 7:51:26 am PDT #13596 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.
As long as Judd Apatow keeps making hugely-popular movies, I will not believe that the social construction of masculinity is more damaging than the social construction of femininity.
Yeah, I still think the social construction of femininity is more damaging.
Thanks to the internets, I'm now a little worried about the social construction of felinity. I mean, are our cats feeling pressured to conform to unrealistic expectation of jumping into boxes or riding Roombas?
Rick - Jun 21, 2011 7:52:14 am PDT #13597 of 30001
Best entry from the Police Beat in the local paper this morning:
600 block West Slate Drive, 2:36 a.m. Saturday, a 24-year-old man called police to report he was lost in the woods. Officers found him intoxicated at a picnic table outside an apartment complex and arrested him.
Jesse - Jun 21, 2011 7:56:41 am PDT #13598 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Jesse, that is INSANE late, even with snow days! I hope they don't have to go back until after Labor Day.
When I was a kid, I remember being in school as late as 6/28, and we definitely didn't go back until after Labor Day, so I assume it's the same deal now.