Dang, I can't believe I can still geek out about this shit.
Oh, I totally geek out and find it fascinating. I just don't believe in it.
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Cass - Dec 30, 2011 3:46:02 pm PST #4934 of 30001
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
billytea - Dec 30, 2011 3:56:07 pm PST #4935 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.
Dang, I can't believe I can still geek out about this shit.
It is eminently geekable. This year my office Christmas party was a bus tour around the Yarra Valley (a wine region just outside Melbourne). I spent the bus ride out doing my own religious geekout in discussion with my boss.
Connie Neil - Dec 30, 2011 4:05:24 pm PST #4936 of 30001
brillig
I was the go-to authority of Catholicism and Saints and historical Christianity when I worked for the library cataloging company. We'd be doing libraries with extensive religious collections, and I'd get asked "Is that a person or a place or both or what?" My habit of muttering "Blessed Mother" when annoyed pretty much cemented my identity as "probably not a Protestant, well, she is from Back East, you know."
Zenkitty - Dec 30, 2011 4:30:26 pm PST #4937 of 30001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
I love that you people geek out about this stuff.
Me too!
Ginger - Dec 30, 2011 4:43:27 pm PST #4938 of 30001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
The bible is the most the most geeked about writing ever. Torah scholars and cloistered monks are the original nerds.
The god of the old testament does so many inexplicably terrible things to men and women that I'd be hard put to figure out which sex fares worse. The new testament gives us Paul.
Zenkitty - Dec 30, 2011 4:46:07 pm PST #4939 of 30001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
I seek the collective knowledge of the hivemind. I'm DYING of allergies. My eyes are weepy and itchy, my nose is perma-stuffed, you know how it is. Antihistamines help, but they also put me into a drugged stupor. My motivation and drive are low normally; add anti-H and I am like a lotus eater, lolling around being languid and getting nothing done.
I've tried Zyrtec, Benadryl, and Chlortrimeton, and today I bought Claritin because it says non-drowsy but I haven't tried it. Does anyone know anything that will relieve allergy symptoms and still allow me to focus and get stuff done? Anything! I'm close to trying homeopathy, here.
Hil R. - Dec 30, 2011 4:47:39 pm PST #4940 of 30001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Allegra tends to make me less drowsy than the others, but different people would react to it differently. There are plenty of "non-drowsy" medicines that knock me out for hours.
§ ita § - Dec 30, 2011 4:51:58 pm PST #4941 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Torah scholars and cloistered monks are the original nerds.
Well, original Judeo-Christian nerds, maybe. Tons of other people contemporaneous with them were studying all sorts of other stuff. Not to mention preceding them.
lisah - Dec 30, 2011 4:55:39 pm PST #4942 of 30001
Punishingly Intricate
today I bought Claritin because it says non-drowsy but I haven't tried it
Claritin-D? That works for me.
Although, I'm afraid I may be addicted to it now!
Dana - Dec 30, 2011 5:00:26 pm PST #4943 of 30001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Meds like Claritin and Zyrtec will take a little time to get to full effect. What about a decongestant to deal with the symptoms, rather than the allergies themselves?