Don't have a crisp, but I got a Loki curled up blissfully at my belly and a Pumpkin against my feet. And she hasn't hissed at him once during tonight's downstairs time.
Loki is a good tactile stress reliever. A 14+ lb furry squeeze toy.
Police procedure has changed since I was little.
Wash ,'The Message'
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.
sarameg - Nov 04, 2011 5:24:27 pm PDT #4792 of 30001
Kat - Nov 04, 2011 6:37:31 pm PDT #4793 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
I just ordered school uniforms for Grace. It's hard to find school uniforms in Toddler sizes.
So the giant grant I was working on at school? the staff voted 25 to 18 to NOT submit it. That was pretty irksome and I was super annoyed. One of the women who was crowing that we didn't have to do it? She's an out of the classroom person who was hired by the previous principal and needs this principal's approval and line in the budget to stay? I think she voted herself out of a job... and she was pleased.
The net result -- we will no longer be eligible for $1.8 million and we will lose ~3 and 6 teachers next year.
Essentially, though, what it means is that we will be restructured, everyone fired and have to reapply for their jobs or they are going to give up the school to a charter.
The staff is so short-sighted.
sarameg - Nov 04, 2011 6:40:50 pm PDT #4794 of 30001
WTF?! You ALWAYS go after grants.
Amy - Nov 04, 2011 6:43:15 pm PDT #4795 of 30001
Because books.
Holy shit, Kat. That's absurd.
smonster - Nov 04, 2011 6:47:44 pm PDT #4796 of 30001
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
What in the holy hell, seriously.
Liese S. - Nov 04, 2011 7:00:38 pm PDT #4797 of 30001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Yeah, seriously, wtf? You might go for grants and not get them, but you don't not go for them.
Burrell - Nov 04, 2011 7:03:47 pm PDT #4798 of 30001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
Oh jeez louise, Kat. That's... that's... boggling. Why didn't they want to go for the grant? Did it have something to do with the restructuring?
sarameg - Nov 04, 2011 7:04:38 pm PDT #4799 of 30001
I'm being played.
Pumpkin was upstairs doing her "I'm lonely" cry. I snuck around to the stairs, and she and Loki were less than a foot apart on the same step as she yodelled. Only when they saw me did she hiss and bolt.
Stinkers.
Lee - Nov 04, 2011 7:13:26 pm PDT #4800 of 30001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Congrats VEEP Brenda!
Ugh, Kat. What is wrong with people?
I survived the two day interpersonal skill training sessions they made us do at work, and then I got to go to Juliana's restaurant and have a really good drink and food and now I am home and the week is over.
Theodosia - Nov 04, 2011 7:37:47 pm PDT #4801 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"
The Maya were the ones with the thorns and the tongue piercing, yes.
(The cleverness of the psychedelic suppositories is that most of the natural ones are bitter enough to make you throw up, so while it seems weird to administer one that way, it actually makes it more pleasant to undergo. The Maya didn't lack for cleverness.)