Normally Scrappy is wise, but not in this instance--you are vibrant and smart and on top of shit, not middle-aged and frumpy or passed-over.
Doesn't winter seem more like archiving season?
Willow ,'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.
meara - Sep 26, 2011 3:19:14 pm PDT #28464 of 30001
SuziQ - Sep 26, 2011 3:21:07 pm PDT #28465 of 30001
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame
Just got back from the doctor. She was able to get my lungs to behave and now I have some Prednosone. I have such a love/hate relationship with that drug.
She also did a flu test cause she is kinda concerned. I think it is just a cold that dropped into my lungs. They don't even start their flu clinic for another couple of weeks.
DavidS - Sep 26, 2011 3:32:14 pm PDT #28466 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I'm having a lot of trouble putting "Scrappy" and "ordinary and dull" into the same sentence.
Let's see if we can work "roller skating," "ex-stripper," "scriptwriting doctor" and "vivacious redhead" into that sentence and see if it comes out more ordinary and dull looking.
Tom Scola - Sep 26, 2011 3:35:53 pm PDT #28467 of 30001
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Adventure Time: best Marceline episode yet!
And David, don't miss Secret Mountain Fort Awesome!
Sue - Sep 26, 2011 3:36:43 pm PDT #28468 of 30001
hip deep in pie
Scrappy, you are never ordinary. But, at the same time, I do understand that feeling...having a boring and pointless job often makes me feel very boring and pointless. But we are much more than our jobs.
Context matters. I had a sociology professor whose concentration was race and ethnicity in America. She had a large collection of signage "NO IRISH NEED APPLY" "WHITES ONLY" and some little black sambos she used in her classes.
Without context, seeing these things in a random professor's office might be horribly offensive.
OMG Allyson, did you hear this story: [link]
The 22-year-old York University student who mistakenly accused her professor of making anti-Semitic remarks issued an unapologetic response to the ridicule that has been widely levelled against her.
“I understand that there may have been a miscommunication,” Sarah Grunfeld writes in the statement distributed Wednesday evening by B’nai Brith Canada. “But any miscommunication was on the part of the professor, not me.”...
Grunfeld accused social sciences professor Cameron Johnston of telling a class on Monday afternoon that “All Jews should be sterilized.”
In fact, Johnston — who is Jewish — was explaining to the students that not all opinions are valid or acceptable, using the example of Jewish sterilization as a reprehensible opinion, with historical precedent.
DavidS - Sep 26, 2011 3:38:35 pm PDT #28469 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
In other instances of heartening news: the garage that worked on our car called. They know I broke down on my way home (because I called them when it happened) and they feel bad about it. So they're willing to eat $800 worth of labor (the amount they charged to fix the starter clutch) if we want to go ahead and get the new transmission.
Basically, the mechanic is saying, "I'll work for free to make it right, if you guys can pay for the parts."
Which is pretty cool.
It definitely changes the equation though I still don't know if that makes a fix feasible. That would knock the $3,300 price tag on the transmission down to $2,500.
DavidS - Sep 26, 2011 3:39:01 pm PDT #28470 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Adventure Time: best Marceline episode yet!
Aww man! It conflicts with HIMYM!
javachik - Sep 26, 2011 3:42:01 pm PDT #28471 of 30001
Our wings are not tired.
That's good of your mechanic, Hec. Hope you guys can make it work somehow.
Scrappy, Sue is right. We are not our jobs. We are SO MUCH more than our jobs.
Cashmere - Sep 26, 2011 3:52:57 pm PDT #28472 of 30001
Now tagless for your comfort.
Scrappy, I can totally empathize. I don't want to feel ungrateful for being able to stay home with kids but the drudgery involved in keeping house and doing mundane things for a living can seem draining on your self esteem.
I can at least fall back on this.
I just realized roller derby is my mid-life crisis.
smonster - Sep 26, 2011 4:06:49 pm PDT #28473 of 30001
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
Normally Scrappy is wise, but not in this instance--you are vibrant and smart and on top of shit, not middle-aged and frumpy or passed-over.
Absolutely what meara said!
I just realized roller derby is my mid-life crisis.
Could be way worse!!
Hec, that's wonderful, and I hope you find a way to get it repaired.
Xposting from the business thread - I'm putting together slides for the recycled glass Mardi Gras beads pitch and I'd really like to have watermark images of bottles on one half and recycled glass beads on the other. Don't want to just gank people's photos, don't know if this qualifies for Creative Commons since I could win some money from it and/or eventually make money. Anyone got good and preferably free sources for stock photos, and/or guidance on the Creative Commons thing?
Many thanks...
eta nevermind, Dana's got me!