Do I wish I was somebody else right now. Somebody not... married, not madly in love with a beautiful woman who can kill me with her pinkie!

Wash ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'


Spike's Bitches 47: Someone Dangerous Could Get In  

[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.


§ ita § - May 14, 2012 2:40:23 pm PDT #13274 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

your interpretation of events on Persons of Interest was right, and I was wrong

Oh, really? (Hi!) I've lapsed watching the show because I have two other things recording in the same slot--has the arc been moving along much? Where do they stand with the lady cop right now?


Beverly - May 14, 2012 2:41:43 pm PDT #13275 of 30001
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.

I hold it's not frippery if it does the job better and makes you happy.

H used to smoke a pipe. He quit when he realized he didn't really *like* the way pipe tobacco tasted, he just liked all the little tools and rituals. I'm sort of that way about tea. I'm fond of tea, but it's the tools and rituals that make me happy.


sj - May 14, 2012 2:43:03 pm PDT #13276 of 30001
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."

The finale is this week. We have some more of the main characters back stories, but it is mostly a villain of the week show. The lady cop is working with them but doesn't approve of their methods or know about the machine. She also doesn't know the other cop is also working with them, and other cop doesn't know she is working with them either.


Burrell - May 14, 2012 2:50:15 pm PDT #13277 of 30001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!

I found chrysanthemum tea! I was looking for it and failing to find it, which is nutty given how not-fancy it is, but finally found a tea stand that sold loose tea. Little flowers floating in my tea pot, I love it!


§ ita § - May 14, 2012 2:52:56 pm PDT #13278 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

She also doesn't know the other cop is also working with them, and other cop doesn't know she is working with them either.

You know, I did not realise this. It didn't even occur to me. Doh.

finally found a tea stand that sold loose tea

Previous day I managed to make it into the office I was waylaid by a tea purist, who spent about 20 minutes talking about *nothing* but tea. He highly recommended the store in Century City mall that's not Teavana. And he talked about a whole lot of tea stuff I'd never even heard of.


sj - May 14, 2012 2:56:40 pm PDT #13279 of 30001
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."

This is the tea site link I always recommend for ordering online, but they don't sell chrysanthemum tea.


Atropa - May 14, 2012 3:02:26 pm PDT #13280 of 30001
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.

David's Tea is my new favorite: [link]

Many of my co-workers at the new job are amused by my silver tea pot and fancy tea cup.


§ ita § - May 14, 2012 3:02:47 pm PDT #13281 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Scola always pitches that same place too.

Ah--the other place in the mall near me (apparently two tea specialty stores is perfectly reasonable in a mall that doesn't even have a bookstore?) is Lupicia. All I know about them for sure is that I didn't think their equivalent to Teavana's dragon jasmine pearl tea was as good (I think that about Upton too), but looking at their site, they have more options than I'd realised.

Magic of the tea machine is that *all* my tea tastes better, so I feel more comfortable trying other flavours as well as other stores. The rooibos blend I got from Upton was very good.


§ ita § - May 14, 2012 3:04:15 pm PDT #13282 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

my silver tea pot and fancy tea cup.

My co-workers aren't as amused as they should be by this, frankly.

However it's becoming a liability because I keep looking at it and hissing "nightsssss" to myself.


Laura - May 14, 2012 3:58:25 pm PDT #13283 of 30001
Our wings are not tired.

I smoked pretty much from my early teens until I met DH in my mid 30s. Smoking was a deal breaker for him. 24 or so years later that is one of the seriously long list of reasons I am grateful for him in my life.

I am not a judgemental person by nature, but my son smoking is completely unacceptable to me. Any parent that has treated their child gasping for breath repeatedly with the nebulizer for years would be in my camp. The last time I had to do it was when he was 3, shortly after his last smoking grandparent died. Every time he visited them his lungs got inflamed. Yeah, I got an issue with it.

And yet I have ashtrays outside for my brother and other friends that smoke, because it isn't my desire ever to make decisions for adults. My kid will never be in that category.