mmm, tea.
Wash: You want a slinky dress? I can buy you a slinky dress. Captain, can I have money for a slinky dress? Jayne: I'll chip in. Zoe: I can hurt you.
'Shindig'
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.
Connie Neil - Oct 23, 2011 8:06:27 am PDT #2846 of 30001
brillig
§ ita § - Oct 23, 2011 8:29:01 am PDT #2847 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Thing is, len, I just want silence. But luckily he's quietened down, mostly. I feel bad for him, because he's obviously miserable, but he's barely able to fend for himself here. You can't depend on nurse response in the emergency room if you're not a high risk patient. And as far as I could tell, he had a fall with no unconsciousness. So, low on their list.
Okay, they keep asking me questions about my port that I can't answer. The ratio of saline to heparin? It's so much to keep track of. And the questions come in one at a time, so every week there's something new I don't know.
Theodosia - Oct 23, 2011 9:00:39 am PDT #2848 of 30001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
My aunt called this morning -- yesterday my Mom told me my brother was in the hospital for a tonsillectomy. It turns out that she was only told a partial truth -- he did have his tonsils out, but also some lymph nodes and a tumor, and they're going to be evaluating just what kind of cancer it is, how malignant, and what treatment, and what outcome he'll get, not to mention whether he'll keep his vocal cords, be able to swallow or talk and bunches of things like that.
I think I'm in shock. He's just turned 50.
§ ita § - Oct 23, 2011 9:07:51 am PDT #2849 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I don't think you have to think you're in shock, Theo. It would make total sense for you to be. I'm so sorry. (And what is with these partial truths? Aren't we all grownups?)
le nubian - Oct 23, 2011 9:14:39 am PDT #2850 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Theo,
thing is: a tonsillectomy at your brother's age is pretty dangerous. Although I am not sure everyone is aware of that. I happen to know because my ENT doctor told me so when I was having tonsil problems.
A lot of 'ma for your brother. I hope is recovery goes okay.
le nubian - Oct 23, 2011 9:15:40 am PDT #2851 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
An earlier version of this article incorrectly stated the premise of “Angry Birds,” a popular iPhone game. In the game, slingshots are used to launch birds to destroy pigs and their fortresses, not to shoot down the birds.
Correction to an NYT article.
amyth - Oct 23, 2011 9:18:49 am PDT #2852 of 30001
And none of us deserving the cruelty or the grace -- Leonard Cohen
Yikes, Theo. How scary. I'm sorry, and hope for the best possible outcome for your brother.
Ginger - Oct 23, 2011 9:21:19 am PDT #2853 of 30001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
That's terrible, Theo. May it please be something limited.
An earlier version of this article incorrectly stated the premise of “Angry Birds,”
Clearly the Times staff is not wasting enough time.
Cashmere - Oct 23, 2011 9:47:40 am PDT #2854 of 30001
Now tagless for your comfort.
My husband's first world problems: Football, baseball, Walking Dead, Dexter AND Boardwalk Empire tonight. No way to watch and/or DVR it all!
Our neighbors got a deer two days ago. He brought us the inside tenderloin yesterday. I put it in a simple marinade of olive oil, vinegar, sea salt, coarse ground pepper, garlic and onion and then broiled it up with roasted red potatoes.
HOLY BALLS! DELICIOUS!
Kate P. - Oct 23, 2011 9:51:43 am PDT #2855 of 30001
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
Oh shit, Theo, I'm so sorry. All best wishes that it turns out to be as nonthreatening and easy to handle as possible.
And thanks for the ~ma for my friends, y'all. S's wife just posted to say that they're all doing OK, just taking things slowly, and labor has not started yet. Now that I know everything is OK and she hasn't been laboring for two days, I'm kind of hoping the baby holds off until tomorrow so it can share my birthday!