Happy Birthday JZ.
And damn,Le Nubian.
Giles, if you would like to get by in American society, then you are going to have to follow our traditions. You're the patriarch. You have to host the festivities, or it's all meaningless.
Buffy ,'Sleeper'
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.
Typo Boy - Jun 27, 2012 6:21:56 am PDT #11437 of 30001
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Burrell - Jun 27, 2012 6:25:40 am PDT #11438 of 30001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
That dress is cute Jesse, but not sure what I'd advise. I had a cute skort once, theoretically, except when I put it on I look like a sausage stuffed into tennis togs. I think I wore it like twice, with a long shirt over it to hide the sausagey parts, before I finally decided to donate it.
In other online shopping news, I bought clothes for Hawaii! On sale even! Board shorts and matching bikini top, plus a rash guard. So I'll be dressed for the beach but still covered up.
Jesse - Jun 27, 2012 6:27:43 am PDT #11439 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Oh man, le nubian. You will make it through! And you may not find an ideal place to live, but you will find some place, and it will be temporary. (One year is temporary.)
omg that dress is so cute. did you find someone for the other dress?
Sold it on eBay! For more than I paid for it, but less than I had with it in the closet. Also sold that black dress with the pink taffeta underskirt, when I remembered I wore it for NYE 1999.
Obviously, hanging in your closet it would take up space and is the cost of mailing it really more than the amt you'd get back from the store?
No, I'd get more back, but on principle! I hate spending $7 or whatever to not have it.
Amy - Jun 27, 2012 6:27:58 am PDT #11440 of 30001
Because books.
That dress is super cute. Now I want one.
Housing~ma, le_n. And get-through-it ~ma for the rest.
Burrell - Jun 27, 2012 6:28:11 am PDT #11441 of 30001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
Ugh le nubian, what a clusterfuck! Sending you much serenity~ma.
amyth - Jun 27, 2012 6:28:43 am PDT #11442 of 30001
And none of us deserving the cruelty or the grace -- Leonard Cohen
Ack, le nubian. That's a heaping load of stress. I hope you can get through it as well as possible. House-finding ~ma, at the very least.
Jesse, I'd return it and get it in the right size, but I do most of shopping online, and I'm impatient and want to wear things RIGHT AWAY. Which is not to say that you can't lose the 5-10 lbs. necessary, but. New! Dress!
Jesse - Jun 27, 2012 6:31:10 am PDT #11443 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I know a size up would be too big. And it took months to get here, so no immediate gratification either way. Eh, OK, I'll send it back. BAH.
amyth - Jun 27, 2012 6:33:56 am PDT #11444 of 30001
And none of us deserving the cruelty or the grace -- Leonard Cohen
Oh, yeah, that bites.
§ ita § - Jun 27, 2012 6:36:36 am PDT #11445 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
IO9 "upgraded" their software today. This is the longest I've gone on a workday without visiting in quite some time.
But the morning developer call was exhausting, and I have to be on another one in half an hour, and I WANT TO LIE DOWN. The world, man. What's wrong with it?
msbelle - Jun 27, 2012 6:37:55 am PDT #11446 of 30001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
what I want to do for lunch:
lay down in an empty office for 30 min. then go get a smoothie.
what I will do for lunch:
set up lunch for a training group in another building and clear their breakfast stuff, then go get drive-thru lunch for a different meeting, deliver it and then go get my smoothie and work through lunch so I can leave at 4.
VBS is fun, but 7am - 8:30pm work days are too much, even with an hour and a half of that being drive time. Friday I will be in bed by 7pm and Saturday I will sleep late late late.