F*cking Prednisone.
Aw. Bless.
Poor Suze. Maybe you can rest in the knowledge that the yummy cupcakes will be there when you ARE interested.
Willow: Were there dolphins? Tara: Yes. Many dolphins at the pound. Willow: Was there a camel? Tara: There was the front of a camel. A half-camel.
'Selfless'
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.
beekaytee - Apr 02, 2011 4:44:36 pm PDT #1462 of 30001
Compassionately intolerant
sarameg - Apr 02, 2011 4:47:10 pm PDT #1463 of 30001
lisah's last line mimics my experience. I do the quiet room too (once dismissed from the dumb movie room) but I get bored. Even with the chance to read, and still getting paid (though technically, I lose a little since parking is more than the jury stipend) it just annoys me a bit, for all that and a STUPID case. Did manage to read Assassination Vacation last time, though. I try to bring the most problematic sounding reading materials...I do that elsewhere as well. I was reading Blackhawk Down for the flight that never was. And A Problem From Hell on genocide another flight. Definitely shuts down the chatters.
beekaytee - Apr 02, 2011 4:51:53 pm PDT #1464 of 30001
Compassionately intolerant
I have to renew my driver's license in the next two weeks, and then jury duty in the last week of the month. I never seem to actually read in these environments. I have a feeling my coloring book is going to get a work out instead.
I found one that is just pages and pages of paisleys. I'll have to order that tonight.
-t - Apr 02, 2011 4:52:33 pm PDT #1465 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I realized too late that reading Lolita on a cross-country bus trip was the wrong choice for discouraging creepy guys from talking to me. Live and learn.
DavidS - Apr 02, 2011 4:57:29 pm PDT #1466 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I realized too late that reading Lolita on a cross-country bus trip was the wrong choice for discouraging creepy guys from talking to me. Live and learn.
Yeah, stay away from Tropic of Cancer too. (Though it was a fun plot point in After Hours.)
§ ita § - Apr 02, 2011 5:01:42 pm PDT #1467 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Well, I found some papers I shouldn't have thrown away, and saved them, and found others I'd carefully put aside, but nothing to do with jury duty.
Now I need to work out how to arrange my Monday morning.
Matt the Bruins fan - Apr 02, 2011 5:04:25 pm PDT #1468 of 30001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
-t, I'm thinking maybe this would be the best choice of reading material for warding off unwanted wierdos on public transit (between the title and the eye-catching skeleton on the cover).
Well, after a copy of The Watchtower, anyway.
§ ita § - Apr 02, 2011 5:05:56 pm PDT #1469 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
With this you get a specific sort of attention. Can be both interesting and bad.
beekaytee - Apr 02, 2011 5:11:36 pm PDT #1470 of 30001
Compassionately intolerant
Well, after a copy of The Watchtower, anyway.
Some really lovely JWitnesses came to the door today to invite me to a couple of events.
I've always had nice experiences with the usual group but I do sometimes wonder what strategy has them knocking on doors in this neighborhood in the middle of the day on a weekday. Myself and maybe three other people are actually home! It seems like a waste of their time.
Sophia Brooks - Apr 02, 2011 5:16:02 pm PDT #1471 of 30001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
Maybe they are introverted Jehovah's Witnesses and don't really want to talk to people? I know that is what I would do.
The only JW I knew was in grammar school and he was very quiet. For some reason the teachers always were explaining why he did not say the Pledge or celebrate his birthday, but in a pretty nice (for the late 70's) inclusive way. I think it came up a lot though because half of our activities revolved around a holiday of some sort.