Ugh Anne. I hope things get better soon.
Anya: We should drop a piano on her. It always works for that creepy cartoon rabbit when he's running from that nice man with the speech impediment. Giles: Yes, or perhaps we could paint a convincing fake tunnel on the side of a mountain.
'Touched'
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 17, 2011 3:05:37 pm PDT #20832 of 30001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Liese S. - Aug 17, 2011 3:07:08 pm PDT #20833 of 30001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
How are people?
I are good!
I am home, yay! House looks pretty good! Startlingly, the across the street neighbor has built a garage/outbuilding on his neighboring lot. It blocks a minimal amount of my view but works out well overall for me because it also blocks the two streets away neighbor's view of my house from their deck. So I have more privacy! Which, you know, I needed since I live in the middle of the desert with only one neighbor.
I walked in the door and then spend the next hour and a half doing domestic abuse counseling, though, ugh. And over the hour and a half we only got as far as "I think we might need to take a break." "Get out the first time you get hit" seems to have not taken. But I'll take what I can get if it gets her out of there. Sheesh.
Amy - Aug 17, 2011 3:08:07 pm PDT #20834 of 30001
Because books.
Anne, NO CATCHING FIRE. Argh.
Good job, brenda! That was hard to do, but very smart.
Burrell - Aug 17, 2011 3:10:16 pm PDT #20835 of 30001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
Yeeps Liese, that's quite a welcome home. Uh, welcome home!
I am sitting here quite sure there's something I'm not taking care of. I don't like that feeling.
§ ita § - Aug 17, 2011 3:16:47 pm PDT #20836 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I got raked over the coals by the project team for the project from hell. I feel sick as a dog and I hate the world, so it was really not a good time.
And I'm *out* of Ambien, so the lack of sleep is just going to get worse.
On the other hand, I got a good author for my next big bang, even though it's going to be a tricky story to illustrate.
Anne W. - Aug 17, 2011 3:30:51 pm PDT #20837 of 30001
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
Anne, NO CATCHING FIRE. Argh.
At least I didn't actually catch fire. Also, I am in a position to be able to get a new car, even though it means postponing a few other things I had planned. So yeah, bad, but it could be much, much worse.
Amy - Aug 17, 2011 3:34:29 pm PDT #20838 of 30001
Because books.
At least I didn't actually catch fire.
Some days, that all you can ask.
smonster - Aug 17, 2011 3:42:57 pm PDT #20839 of 30001
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
Welcome home, Liese! And much ~ma to your counselee.
beekaytee - Aug 17, 2011 3:44:51 pm PDT #20840 of 30001
Compassionately intolerant
It's sort of like the long-running, highly successful "Walk for Hunger" here. Uh, maybe walk against hunger??
Back in the day, when I was a professional peace activist, it disturbed me that people kept chanting, "Bring down the bombs!"
Um. I walked across America to KEEP THAT FROM HAPPENING, can't we find different words?
beekaytee - Aug 17, 2011 3:45:24 pm PDT #20841 of 30001
Compassionately intolerant
Welcome home, Liese! And much ~ma to your counselee.
This.
And, bless you both.