Timelies all!
Yay Allyson! Now if I could just find my motivation to start practicing guitar again...
We knocked 'em deader!
Willow ,'Lies My Parents Told Me'
Natter 69: Practically names itself.
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.
Sheryl - Mar 12, 2012 12:35:05 pm PDT #26353 of 30001
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"
Atropa - Mar 12, 2012 12:36:11 pm PDT #26354 of 30001
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Yay Allyson! I love hearing about your progress with the guitar.
§ ita § - Mar 12, 2012 12:36:47 pm PDT #26355 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
What a team building vacation with my first US job taught me was: be ruthless picking your team.
I'm good with that.
A huge part of our team leaves April 6th, for reasons kinda beyond his control. I am so mad I almost want to take it out on him. Seriously. HE CAN'T LEAVE. I can't do this without him.
I thought today was Tuesday! Oops. I actually almost made a decision based on that mistake. But, thankfully, I managed to escalate stuff to the lawyers, and finally got myself out of that loop.
Has anyone seen the horror movie May?
Matt the Bruins fan - Mar 12, 2012 12:38:53 pm PDT #26356 of 30001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
I'm sure that DST is what's messing me up today, as I turned in before 11pm last night and slept almost 9 hours. But the gronk is still with me as heavily as it was yesterday after staying up for the play Saturday night and getting home after midnight.
I take a dim view of team-building exercises in general, but my company is small enough and most people know each other well-enough we haven't had many. The one big one I recall involved everyone flying to Chicago and spending the day putting together kits for some charity's outreach to disadvantaged families, so it at least produced something useful.
§ ita § - Mar 12, 2012 1:04:01 pm PDT #26357 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Weird. I found a makeup blog run by a woman with a skin tone near to mine--score, right? Her taste in colours couldn't be further from mine. She keeps wearing all these bubble gum pinks that I swear are the nastiest thing ever on me, and she's loving them. [link] Maybe it's her camera or my monitor? She sure has a lot of that stuff.
Allyson - Mar 12, 2012 1:29:33 pm PDT #26358 of 30001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
Thanks, I'm all proud of my callouses and stuff. And I learned how to tune it without relying so heavily on the electronic tuner, which was frustrating me.
Liese S. - Mar 12, 2012 1:53:29 pm PDT #26359 of 30001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
That's great, Allyson. I'm proud of you too!
JZ - Mar 12, 2012 2:18:39 pm PDT #26360 of 30001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Grumbling here so I don't grumble there:
No, Other Commenter, the five peer-reviewed PubMed cites, published within the last 18 months, that I linked to are *not* refuted by the two 12- and 25-year-old cites you linked to that say essentially the same thing as my five recent ones, only with more general and tentative findings, just as one would expect when looking back 12 or 25 years. Unless by "refuted" you mean "supported and confirmed," in which case, yes, indeed they are. Otherwise, Other Commenter, I'm afraid that possibly ur doin it just the tiniest bit rong.
Sigh.
Scrappy - Mar 12, 2012 2:18:44 pm PDT #26361 of 30001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Allyson always rocked, but now she LITERALLY rocks.
sarameg - Mar 12, 2012 2:32:05 pm PDT #26362 of 30001
It turns out that once you have had a corneal abrasion, they are susceptible to re-abrading for about a year without you actually poking yourself in the eye violently.
I blinked wrong and reopened the motherfucker. It's not AS bad, but still. I barely made it through today (at least I still have the drops.) I think I'm going to have to take tomorrow off, because staring at my screen for any length of time hurts, which makes my eye tear, which makes it hurt more and I was generally useless. Another funfilled day of staring at the ceiling. I really HOPE this doesn't take 3 days to heal this time.
Fuck.