Scenes from the House o' Reason:
Pete on the phone to me: " I can hear another voice on the line."
Me: "That's Sir Christopher Lee reading me Dracula."
Pete: Of course it is..."
I like books. I just don't want to take on too much. Do they have an introduction to the modern blurb?
Buffy ,'Lessons'
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.
Atropa - Apr 04, 2011 3:46:49 pm PDT #1668 of 30001
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
sarameg - Apr 04, 2011 3:52:48 pm PDT #1669 of 30001
I remember, on a drive home from NC to NM, suddenly realizing how I'd finally become used to southern social grease and had embraced it. I was chatting merrily away to a gas clerk in some middle-of-nowhere West Texas town, and she was looking at me like I'd grown a third head. Oh yeah, us SWers use words sparingly.
Right after Prague, I remember fleeing a Smith's grocery store in Flagstaff, simply getting totally overwhelmed by the bread selection and Bright!Lights! and manic energy. Actually had to shop at convenience stores for a while until I could cope. Man, that was an unhappy summer. Culture shock, a lot of uncertainty.
Zenkitty - Apr 04, 2011 3:58:34 pm PDT #1670 of 30001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
Here's an odd question:
My niece's friend M. will be catsitting for me while I'm out of town this weekend. I've never met her but Sarah recommended her; they both have done petsitting for years for their professors. She's asking $13 per visit. I'm only needing her to come by once a day, for three days. I feel like that's too low - only $39? I was expecting to pay her $150! I'm happy not to pay that much, but what do I do? Just say okay to what she asked for? I wonder if she thought I'd want her more than once a day, and so was expecting to get more like twice that, and won't want to do it for so little. It hardly seems like it would be worth it to her.
smonster - Apr 04, 2011 4:00:20 pm PDT #1671 of 30001
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
Right after Prague, I remember fleeing a Smith's grocery store in Flagstaff
Oh, yeah. Even now I prefer my little hippie co-op, and hate "real" grocery stores.
There are certain things that even now, eight years later, I have a really hard time not saying in Romanian. "Poftim" when I hand someone something, "asa" long and drawn out like "I see..." for two examples.
Zenkitty - Apr 04, 2011 4:03:25 pm PDT #1672 of 30001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
Oh! I learned "poftim" from BBC's Top Gear! It means, like, "here, have a thing," right?
DavidS - Apr 04, 2011 4:10:54 pm PDT #1673 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Right after Prague, I remember fleeing a Smith's grocery store in Flagstaff, simply getting totally overwhelmed by the bread selection and Bright!Lights! and manic energy.
My friend, Sue, had this problem when she came back from two years in the Peace Corps in Senegal. The superabundance seemed grotesque after living through a few famines over there.
§ ita § - Apr 04, 2011 4:18:24 pm PDT #1674 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Welcome to never feeling like an American, no matter what the paperwork says.
brenda m - Apr 04, 2011 4:20:15 pm PDT #1675 of 30001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
She's asking $13 per visit. I'm only needing her to come by once a day, for three days. I feel like that's too low - only $39? I was expecting to pay her $150! I'm happy not to pay that much, but what do I do? Just say okay to what she asked for?
If she was staying there, sure. But for a once a day visit I think that's fine. Throw her $50 if it makes you feel better.
§ ita § - Apr 04, 2011 4:21:19 pm PDT #1676 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I just dressed down a Time Warner webchat guy. Never say "with all due respect" to a customer. Just, don't.
flea - Apr 04, 2011 4:21:33 pm PDT #1677 of 30001
information libertarian
It's not the same degree of culture shock, but I always used to thrill at the moment when I knew I was back in the US (from Europe) - when I was confronted with the incredibly NYC-style laydeez who bossed everyone around at the airport shuttle area at JFK. There is nobody like that anywhere in the world but America, and honestly, it's pure New York. (And amusingly, I'd bet that at least half were 1st-generation Americans.)