but that's what I mean: can you take a day off and go visit a friend or something.
Buffy: How was school today? Dawn: The usual. A big square building filled with boredom and despair.
Buffy: Just how I remember it.
'The Killer In Me'
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.
le nubian - Mar 26, 2013 6:55:47 pm PDT #27976 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Connie Neil - Mar 26, 2013 7:26:13 pm PDT #27977 of 30001
brillig
when I go back nothing's changed
I know that feeling. Sometimes I think a vacation is one of the worst things, because you go off and have fun in some pleasant location then you have to come back to the real world. There was a cruise line a while back that had an advertisement where a couple was going through their daily routine and bemoaning how wonderful it was on the ship. I did not see that as an encouragement.
erin_obscure - Mar 26, 2013 8:22:34 pm PDT #27978 of 30001
Occasionally I’m callous and strange
Yay pain under 3! I rate pain meds less by how they directly affect my pain levels, but by how long I can sleep without waking up from the pain and then how I feel the next day. So enlightening to get to a milestone and think "Wow, I totally couldn't have gotten near that yesterday. Go me!" And huzzah for modern pharmaceuticals.
IOmeN, a few hours with a good friend helped miles and I feel a little silly over being so peevish. I have a sore spot 10 miles wide over feelings of exclusion and that misfired in a painfully ironic way.
NoiseDesign - Mar 26, 2013 11:24:23 pm PDT #27979 of 30001
Our wings are not tired
A friend from high school just posted this on FB.
GOD CREATED MARRIAGE...it was meant to be between a man & woman! If gay people want to get married, WHY do they need to do it the same way if they don't BELIEVE the same way as Christians do? Is it to prove a point that they can get married too, or is it just for the benefits???? I'm confused.
Where to even begin.
billytea - Mar 26, 2013 11:25:37 pm PDT #27980 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.
Where to even begin.
That last sentence seems like a good place.
brenda m - Mar 27, 2013 1:58:44 am PDT #27981 of 30001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Wait, so now you also have to be Christian too?
SuziQ - Mar 27, 2013 3:04:41 am PDT #27982 of 30001
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame
Oh geez, ND. Good luck with that one.
I slept last night. YAY! But woke up with the headache about an hour before I need to get up. Meds have been applied. Sleep may be reapplied. Work....well, we will see if that happens.
Laura - Mar 27, 2013 3:12:45 am PDT #27983 of 30001
Our wings are not tired.
Oh geez, ND. Good luck with that one.
Yeah, pretty much. I haven't had to deal with that one. My first instinct is to engage, but then my saner self remembers that it would be a waste of my precious time.
Fred Pete - Mar 27, 2013 5:06:27 am PDT #27984 of 30001
Ann, that's a ferret.
ND, I'd be tempted to start by suggesting that, if marriage is such a purely religious institution, then creating a civil status of marriage -- with consequent benefits, responsibilities, etc. -- constitutes an establishment of religion. Which is prohibited by the First Amendment, and civil marriage is thereby unconstitutional for anyone.
Hil R. - Mar 27, 2013 5:14:05 am PDT #27985 of 30001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
I've found that a good way to confuse those people is to point out that civil marriage and religious marriage have been separate institutions for a while. In various places in Europe, for a long time, there were laws restricting Jewish marriage. Jews could only have government marriages in certain circumstances. But plenty of Jews got married anyway, in religious ceremonies. In doing genealogy research, I found that my great-great-grandparents didn't get married according to the Austrian government until they were in their sixties and already had something like eight kids, because that's when the government changed the law and allowed them to get married. So far, I've only seen one person actually take the bait and respond with, "Well, those marriages that were officiated by a rabbi but didn't have state recognition weren't REAL marriages."