Early: So is it still her room when it's empty? Does the room, the thing, have purpose? Or do we -- what's the word? Simon: I really can't help you. Early: The plan is to take your sister. Get the reward, which is substantial. 'Imbue.' That's the word.

'Objects In Space'


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.


Laura - Mar 30, 2012 3:51:00 am PDT #28757 of 30001
Our wings are not tired.

Neither of our office environments have gender designations on the restrooms. Doing a mental inventory all of the restrooms at my customer offices I see only unisex. But all my customers are medical practices so I suspect this is the norm here. The only designation I see is sometimes for patient or staff.

Restaurants are another matter. There we just see various cutesy variations of men/women. At times I have had to think a moment to figure out which one I was.

ION, I hosted a tv watching gathering of parents, friends, and relatives of DH's basketball team playing on ESPN last night. It was a close and exciting game with our boys in the lead most of the game, but they lost in the end. Tough of course, but awesome for a poor public school team to get national attention. Their state championship and ESPN invite has resulted in significantly increased attention from the D1 universities and scholarship opportunities. The only other public school invited was crushed in their game so the 4 remaining are the well funded private programs.

So they played well and impressed a whole lot of people and all our senior players have scholarship offers. And next year we will have more scouts attending and watching. The 3 player (single) moms watching with me saw their babies on ESPN, and will be making final decisions on which offer to accept. The moms worked as hard as the boys to make this happen. It is all good.


Tom Scola - Mar 30, 2012 3:54:47 am PDT #28758 of 30001
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

I didn't sleep well last night, but I did sleep! And the antibiotics are having an immediate effect, after only one dose, so YAY!!


Laura - Mar 30, 2012 3:57:08 am PDT #28759 of 30001
Our wings are not tired.

Yay sleep! It is good to hear you finally got some relief.


Hil R. - Mar 30, 2012 3:57:21 am PDT #28760 of 30001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

The building my office is in has at least one unisex bathroom, on the first floor. There might be some others, but that's the only one I've noticed.


lisah - Mar 30, 2012 3:57:37 am PDT #28761 of 30001
Punishingly Intricate

I am in a coffee shop right now with a unisex bathroom! I know I've been to places with them in Chicago, le n. Like our friend's coffee shop.


Amy - Mar 30, 2012 4:04:48 am PDT #28762 of 30001
Because books.

I'm speaking at career day at Ben's school today. What to wear?! I should show up in pajamas and tell them it's the writer's uniform.


Laura - Mar 30, 2012 4:06:42 am PDT #28763 of 30001
Our wings are not tired.

I think it would be awesome, but Ben might not agree. Kids often don't get parent humor.


Amy - Mar 30, 2012 4:13:13 am PDT #28764 of 30001
Because books.

So true.


Tom Scola - Mar 30, 2012 4:20:12 am PDT #28765 of 30001
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

Dick Clark's Flintstone house for sale: [link]


Jesse - Mar 30, 2012 4:40:23 am PDT #28766 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I think marking single-toilet public bathrooms with gender is ridiculous, and I don't understand why businesses do it. Non-gendered bathrooms were more common in restaurants/bars/etc. in NYC than here, I believe. And also there are no non-gender-identified bathrooms in my office, although I believe one of the "men's" is a single stall.

In non-news from last night:

I wish TJs pub cheese with Horseradish wasn't so good.

I wish my TJs still sold the one with horseradish! Luckily, my supermarket does, and even better, it's only on sale once in a while.

People name their breasts?

I haven't but my ex did.