I'm preemptively refrigerating my house. AC in the bedroom on energy-save at 69 took the moisture out of the already cool house (from the wonderful weather this weekend) today. I'm cranking it to full tonight and burrowing under the covers. I have 2 other ACs I can deploy, but the last hot week, the single one on this mode actually kept the house comfortable. Bedroom frigid, but I don't mind that. If I can get through the summer on one AC..well, I'll know I can do it.
Jayne (Husband): Oh, I think you might wanna reconsider that last part. See, I married me a powerful ugly creature. Mal (Wife): How can you say that? How can you shame me in front of new people? Jayne (Husband): If I could make you purtier, I would. Mal (Wife): You are not the man I met a year ago.
'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
Natter 70: Hookers and Blow
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 - Jun 19, 2012 6:16:07 pm PDT #10426 of 30001
Connie Neil - Jun 19, 2012 6:44:59 pm PDT #10427 of 30001
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I don't remember diagramming sentences. Possibly, like most things of a grammatically technical nature, I may have blocked it from my memory.
DebetEsse - Jun 19, 2012 6:55:59 pm PDT #10428 of 30001
Woe to the fucking wicked.
I adored diagramming sentences when I learned it in 4th grade.
I have always been at least a bit odd.
aurelia - Jun 19, 2012 7:15:16 pm PDT #10429 of 30001
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
Pretty, pretty lights. [link]
I hated diagramming sentences. It didn't make a bit of sense until I started taking Latin.
Zenkitty - Jun 19, 2012 7:31:18 pm PDT #10430 of 30001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
I hated diagramming sentences. It didn't make a bit of sense until I started taking Latin.
I always thought diagramming sentences was pointless. How did taking Latin change your mind?
Burrell - Jun 19, 2012 7:46:09 pm PDT #10431 of 30001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
I am no good at diagraming sentences, but I'd love to learn how to do it correctly.
meara - Jun 19, 2012 7:57:22 pm PDT #10432 of 30001
I couldn't diagram a sentence to save my life.
Also, what everyone else said about title insurance. Supposed to cover crazy shit like that. Also, how the eff does someone refinance a mortgage on a house they don't own?? I thought the whole point of industry reform and bailouts and shit was to stop nonsense like that!
aurelia - Jun 19, 2012 8:05:25 pm PDT #10433 of 30001
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
It just didn't make sense until I was learning another language. Other languages are more consistent, so it made more sense. After that I understood what they had been talking about with the diagramming.
EpicTangent - Jun 19, 2012 9:44:34 pm PDT #10434 of 30001
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty
I don't think I got sentence diagramming until about 9th grade. I was just glad to finally know what the heck the diagram that Laura Ingalls did for her teaching credential test was all about.
Calli - Jun 20, 2012 2:47:00 am PDT #10435 of 30001
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Yeah, the 90s have finally hit NC. A bit later than expected, actually. Nothing to do but crank up the AC, set taste buds to "margarita," and ride it out. Or move. 29 years in and I still haven't ruled out moving.