I want to be Trixie Belden. ETA: Or perhaps Hercule Poirot.
I swear, one of these times, you're gonna wake up in a coma.
Cordelia ,'Showtime'
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.
Sue - Aug 31, 2011 2:58:33 pm PDT #23417 of 30001
hip deep in pie
Consuela - Aug 31, 2011 3:01:52 pm PDT #23418 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
They just do all of the talking and never ask for my opinion or about my experience or anything.
... oh, wait, that's not me, right, because I definitely recall you telling me some stories the last time we went out. Whew!
OTOH, I tend to assume people are reserved if they don't volunteer, and then I spend my energy filling the silence, because you know me, I can talk to a rock. (They said that about me in law school: "You know Consuela? She can have a conversation with a rock." It's not entirely a compliment, I suspect... *grins*)
... which, I just realized, I made the post All About Me. Way to go! oy.
flea - Aug 31, 2011 3:04:56 pm PDT #23419 of 30001
information libertarian
One aspect of my having children is, I took one for the team. My sister is off the hook! I also got married for the team (as in, had an actual wedding; the choice to marry was mine, but if we hadn't had to think of family, we would have done it in an office.) I am counting on these sacrifices absolving me of dealing with my mother when she gets to need dealing with. Well, that and the consistently living 10+ hours away.
megan walker - Aug 31, 2011 3:05:08 pm PDT #23420 of 30001
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Why do you hate America?
That was my French half talking?
tommyrot - Aug 31, 2011 3:12:37 pm PDT #23421 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
How a mix of female empowerment and steamy soap operas helped bring down Brazil’s fertility rate and stoke its vibrant economy.
The Brazilian fertility rate is 1.9.
That new Brazilian fertility rate is below the level at which a population replaces itself. It is lower than the two-children-per-woman fertility rate in the United States. In the largest nation in Latin America—a 191-million-person country where the Roman Catholic Church dominates, abortion is illegal (except in rare cases), and no official government policy has ever promoted birth control—family size has dropped so sharply and so insistently over the past five decades that the fertility rate graph looks like a playground slide.
Longish, interesting article.
javachik - Aug 31, 2011 3:14:39 pm PDT #23422 of 30001
Our wings are not tired.
... which, I just realized, I made the post All About Me. Way to go! oy.
Ha! And no, not to worry, I was not writing about you.
Ginger - Aug 31, 2011 3:14:56 pm PDT #23423 of 30001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
They just do all of the talking and never ask for my opinion or about my experience or anything.
My neighbor is a perfect example of Fran Lebowitz's "The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting."
javachik - Aug 31, 2011 3:15:26 pm PDT #23424 of 30001
Our wings are not tired.
My neighbor is a perfect example of Fran Lebowitz's "The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting."
Great way to put it.
Sheryl - Aug 31, 2011 3:24:26 pm PDT #23425 of 30001
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"
Timelies all!
Hugs for all who need or want them.
§ ita § - Aug 31, 2011 3:28:15 pm PDT #23426 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
New rule: Coworkers aren't allowed to wink at me. Especially if they're cute.