Scrappy, SO GOOD, considering. SO GOOD.
I hate to break it to you, oh impotent one, but you're not the big bad anymore, you're not even the kind of naughty.
Xander ,'Showtime'
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§ ita § - Oct 01, 2012 12:16:48 pm PDT #20888 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
JenP - Oct 01, 2012 12:17:57 pm PDT #20889 of 30001
Scrappy, so glad she got the best possible news. That sounds really hopeful. So glad.
SailAweigh - Oct 01, 2012 12:20:44 pm PDT #20890 of 30001
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
Yay, mom of Scrappy! That really made my day to read that, Scrappy. I feel like we all punched cancer in the face with that one.
Hil R. - Oct 01, 2012 12:22:59 pm PDT #20891 of 30001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Scrappy, that's great news.
I went to the ENT. He says that he thinks my ear problem is a muscular problem, with the eustachian tubes not opening and closing properly because the muscles around them are too tight, so we're trying various things to relax those muscles. They did some kind of ear pressure test that printed out a graph, and the graph from my left ear was the perfect sort of peak that they want to see, while the one from my right ear was all squiggly. They also tested my hearing, and I can hear better than most people, which might be why noises annoy me so much -- I can just hear more of them than most people can.
Trudy Booth - Oct 01, 2012 12:46:47 pm PDT #20892 of 30001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
Marvelous, Scrappy!
Although now that you mention that, I wonder that it doesn't give *her* the heebie-jeebies to borrow something that *I* might have worn withOUT a shirt underneath.
"I was SO happy to finally get it back that T & I had a whole bunch of reallly sticky sex in it :) 'Fraid its not a loaner anymore :( "
erikaj - Oct 01, 2012 12:53:19 pm PDT #20893 of 30001
Always Anti-fascist!
Trudy's answer wins.
erikaj - Oct 01, 2012 12:55:25 pm PDT #20894 of 30001
Always Anti-fascist!
(RAYLAN, inside Scrappy's Mom's Lung, lays a bullet on the table, in front of CANCER)
Next one's coming faster.
EpicTangent - Oct 01, 2012 12:59:29 pm PDT #20895 of 30001
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty
Many yays for excellent Mom-of-Scrappy news!
billytea - Oct 01, 2012 1:10:56 pm PDT #20896 of 30001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
I agree with Beverly and smonster, especially about directing her to an outlet to buy her own. I'd possibly be inclined not even to say you'll need it at that time, but just something like "I'm afraid that won't be possible". That gives her less to engage with, just in case she's the sort who'll try to argue or negotiate with your refusal (which seems possible given that whole "If I can only get it from you for one date" thing). You don't owe her a reason any more than you owe her a corset.
EpicTangent - Oct 01, 2012 1:22:48 pm PDT #20897 of 30001
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty
Good grief, the Quality Manager just rejected an ECO because she didn't know what "in-situ" means...nothing wrong with it, just REJECT, with a comment about "what does in-situ mean?" Seriously? I go out of my way to NOT look ignorant to other people as a rule, and rather than just asking one person (or Googling, FFS), she'd rather look like a dope to all of us? So now someone will have to explain to her what it means, then route the entire thing through for signatures all over again, because she couldn't hit Dictionary.com.
I really don't get people...
(And I'm pretty sure my boss is going to handle this one, because we both know that I'd have a really hard time not conveying that paragraph up there by my tone...)