Get up...get up, you stupid piece of... What did you do that for? What's wrong with you? Didn't you hear a word he said? All of you! You think there's someone just going to drop money on you?! Money they could use?! Well, there ain't people like that. There's just people like me.

Jayne ,'Jaynestown'


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.


flea - Aug 27, 2011 8:26:17 am PDT #22552 of 30001
information libertarian

I am prepping for a birthday party that will include 9 8 year olds, arriving in 30 minutes. It occurs to me we don't actually have enough chairs. Luckily the plan is for them to watch a 2-hour movie, east cupcakes, and run around outside.

What is mr. flea doing? Well a delivery of lumber arrived an hour ago. Why yes, we have a 10x14 foot hole in our porch right now, so you can't actually come in the door.

Luckily, 8 year olds will probably think the hole is cool. I just hope nobody falls in it.


§ ita § - Aug 27, 2011 8:30:48 am PDT #22553 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Font humour for Doctor Who fans.


Hil R. - Aug 27, 2011 8:32:04 am PDT #22554 of 30001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

One of my friends has "Hurricane party in the Hamptons!" as her facebook status. Staying in the Hamptons seems like a horribly bad idea right now.

And now that I look at her previous statuses, it's not that she got stuck out there. She was working yesterday, and then took the bus out to the Hamptons after work.


Jesse - Aug 27, 2011 8:52:58 am PDT #22555 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

My friend is supposed to be having her high school reunion tonight out there -- she headed out yesterday, too.

I just hope nobody falls in it.

Good luck with everything! That sounds like an excellent party.


Lee - Aug 27, 2011 9:25:54 am PDT #22556 of 30001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.

Ugh. I keep finding all these ways in which I failed as an adult this week, like not mailing in the rollover IRA paperwork, or not noticing until today that I am running out of tamoxifen pills, and that I am out of automatic refills, so I can't do anything about it until Monday.

I won't run out of pills as long as I do something about it on Monday, and the paperwork is not super time sensitive, but still, FAIL.


Liese S. - Aug 27, 2011 9:38:02 am PDT #22557 of 30001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

I hate stuff like that Perkins, but it's all easy mistakes to make. Forgive yourself, and then get it done on Monday.


Liese S. - Aug 27, 2011 9:52:51 am PDT #22558 of 30001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

There! Dishes are done! Now, nobody eat!


Lee - Aug 27, 2011 9:55:35 am PDT #22559 of 30001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.

Forgive yourself, and then get it done on Monday.

Yep. I was thinking maybe I would also make some brownies and wallow in them today, just to complete the trend.


Atropa - Aug 27, 2011 10:00:06 am PDT #22560 of 30001
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.

Yep. I was thinking maybe I would also make some brownies and wallow in them today, just to complete the trend.

That is a REALLY GOOD plan. Do that.

(And thank you for reminding me that I need to print out stuff to mail.)


Steph L. - Aug 27, 2011 10:07:51 am PDT #22561 of 30001
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

There! Dishes are done! Now, nobody eat!

That is EXACTLY how I feel when I do the dishes. And inevitably, 5 minutes after I finish, Tim wanders in with 2 days' worth of dirty lunch tupperware from his work bag. Narg.