Gud, that must be it. Good thought!
Mal: If anyone gets nosy, just, you know... shoot 'em. Zoe: Shoot 'em? Mal: Politely.
'Serenity'
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.
brenda m - Mar 29, 2012 7:57:08 am PDT #28603 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
smonster - Mar 29, 2012 7:57:44 am PDT #28604 of 30001
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
I see what you did there, Gud.
Theodosia - Mar 29, 2012 7:57:53 am PDT #28605 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"
And Tom? I'm so glad you got seen!
Scrappy - Mar 29, 2012 7:58:59 am PDT #28606 of 30001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
:: loving on Gud ::
Maria - Mar 29, 2012 8:00:28 am PDT #28607 of 30001
Not so nice is that I'm about to ruin a Friday morning for a bunch of people because of a series of unfortunate events and an upset foreign government. - shrift
Your feel-good story of the day--the Route 29 Batman: [link]
Steph L. - Mar 29, 2012 8:08:10 am PDT #28608 of 30001
I look more rad than Lutheranism
I HAZ THE CODEINE!
Narcotics FTW! Begone, cough! Depart these lungs!
Consuela - Mar 29, 2012 8:09:50 am PDT #28609 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Well-done, Gud.
t nods to Jesse
Jesse - Mar 29, 2012 8:14:35 am PDT #28610 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
DON'T YOU PEOPLE HEAR ME???
4 is way too small a sample because what if the female "professors" SUCKED?
At least it was four actors, presumably reading the same script?
Zenkitty - Mar 29, 2012 8:16:07 am PDT #28611 of 30001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
Here's my cool thing of the day, a map of wind patterns over the continental US
That is wonderful.
The students perception of your intelligence is inversely related to how high your voice is.
Not just students. I think that's generally true. Relatedly, I've noticed I get taken much more seriously when I drop my voice an octave.
Because of the high pitch and the softness of a woman's voice, it makes them very difficult to understand unless they are right up in your face
Like a woman can't project? I mean, some women can't, or don't; I've known several women whose speaking voices were almost impossible to understand unless they were "right up in your face", but I think that's because our culture teaches women to speak softly, and some women seem to really take the lesson to heart. More than once I've said to a woman, come on, speak up, talk out loud! and they look at me like I've encouraged them to fart in church.
One of my friends from grad school has a really high voice -- like, Minnie Mouse quality -- and it usually took forever for her students to trust that she actually knew what she was talking about.
One of my coworkers M. also has a really high, child-like speaking voice. She's also a tiny woman who looks about 20. I know she has a hard time being taken seriously. One reason she likes her job is that we all treated her like a competent adult from day one. (And now I wonder if it matters that the team she joined is all women?)
Once I was at a brainstorming meeting, also attended by my boss and run by her boss, at which I was the junior staff. I said a Thing, and it passed without note. Two minutes later, the male manager sitting at my right said the exact same Thing. And everyone said, wow, Bill, good point! I could NOT believe that happened. Oh hell no. I said, Bill, I just said that exact same thing two minutes ago. There was silence, and then Boss Boss grinned and said, yeah, Bill, she did. And Bill had the grace to blush and keep his damn mouth shut. I think that incident contributed to my reputation at work.
P.M. Marc - Mar 29, 2012 8:18:56 am PDT #28612 of 30001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
I remember (but can't hit the right set of Google terms to call it back up) reading an article by an MTF professor in (memfault) science, who was kind of appalled to overhear remarks in the halls by colleagues gossiping about the new guy and how great his most recent lectures/publications had been, and that he seemed to be a lot smarter than his sister who'd been around the year before.
FTM. [link]