Excellent! by then I should be back from TJs and target, and probably still not doing house stuff.
Joyce: Dawn, you be good. Xander: We will. Just gonna play with some matches, run with scissors, take candy from some guy, I don't know his name.
'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.
Lee - Aug 13, 2011 6:21:31 pm PDT #20373 of 30001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
sarameg - Aug 13, 2011 6:29:27 pm PDT #20374 of 30001
Hah! Just borrow one of my days of late.
Dog people, picture this: I went to let my neighbor's dogs out for a pee this am. Except it was their large lab, their exuberant lab-pit puppy AND their neighbor's matching siamese colored MASTIFF and pug. They all tried to kill me on the stairs down by all three big dogs trying to run between my legs. Mastiff definitely doesn't fit, shoulders hitting above my hip, and the lab, not really. I braced my arms on the walls and picked my feet up. Puppy nudged me in the ass at that point. And then the pug. Who was soundly asleep upstairs, having only one eye and being half deaf. Scared the shit out of her, and then she kept running into my leg down 2 sets of stairs. She's small but stout. Did I mention one-eyed?
Coming up the stairs, they ran me over, flat out. I just let them. Well, the pug, I carried.
I prefer cats.
javachik - Aug 14, 2011 12:48:40 am PDT #20375 of 30001
Our wings are not tired.
Ha!
§ ita § - Aug 14, 2011 4:58:17 am PDT #20376 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
It is "you and me against the world, not "you and I", right?
Stephanie - Aug 14, 2011 5:15:01 am PDT #20377 of 30001
Trust my rage
I think so because "I against the world" sounds weird.
Connie Neil - Aug 14, 2011 5:21:10 am PDT #20378 of 30001
brillig
People get told so often not to say "you and me" that they don't remember that it's sometimes the correct form.
beekaytee - Aug 14, 2011 5:28:11 am PDT #20379 of 30001
Compassionately intolerant
Yep, It's 'me against the world.'
sarameg, I'm glad you kept your feet!
We have a rule in this house, and in the doggy lama houses. No dog and people on the stairs at the same time. With a crowd like that, though, I suppose a stampede is the only option.
Am I taking it correctly that you didn't know the herd was in house?
I am observing dog walkers for the company I'm partnered with and am finding it fairly common that clients neglect to mention when another dog is going to be present. Sigh. We are going to have to institute a penalty for such behavior.
It's clear that one of my primary tasks as Director of HR/PR is being a hard ass.
Sparky1 - Aug 14, 2011 5:31:05 am PDT #20380 of 30001
Librarian Warlord
Skipping to say: An American U student did a short documentary piece on our search for Sassafras: [link] Give him some hits!
§ ita § - Aug 14, 2011 5:58:53 am PDT #20381 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Whenever I've seen the "and me" correction called out in fic, it's always been an erroneous correction. Tsk, tsk.
It can't be easy to train a dog not to follow you directly up or down a flight of stairs.
beekaytee - Aug 14, 2011 6:04:14 am PDT #20382 of 30001
Compassionately intolerant
It isn't too difficult if there is a sight line.
It is a matter of teaching self-control and the 'wait' or stay command.
I live on the second floor and Bartleby has two commands for exiting the house. "go pee" means that he can rush down the stairs in front of me to go into the yard. 'go outside' means he must stop on the landing, lie down and wait for me to go downstairs and get his equipment together.
It's funny that, if I say the wrong command for a given behavior, he will correct me.
There have been times when we've gone for a short walk that I didn't intend because I messed up and don't want to confuse him.