I was thinking those headlines about Katie were overwrought, but I'm coming round...even with all I'd been reading about Scientology, there was a part of me still saying "But they couldn't
keep
her."
Der. Yerp.
So, because I have an incisive grasp of interpersonal relationships, I said something sarcastic to the only developer that hasn't driven me bugshit in the past month...and then came back and said "But you know you're still my favourite, right?" He played dumb, so I sold it a little harder, but the "report seems to stop at May" developer said "So I'm not your favourite anymore?" The developer who's not actually bugging me
that
much anymore piped up with "You weren't even on the list!" I demurred with "I'm too flighty to have just one favourite" and then shored it up with "Everyone's my favourite and you're my favourite-favourite and he was so my favourite he fell off the top and is working his way back 'round again." on the way back from lunch, but good god, I should just ID some mines and throw myself on them.
My absolute favourite co-worker bumped into me in the cafe, though, and told me the niece of a former Jamaican PM is working in his department now. He described me, apparently, as "a bit Jamaican, but she goes back a lot". Fine. He's the
other
guy in his team with an accent from now on.
the general environment where you grew up feels correct in some undefinable way, I think.
The cicadas in IL and MI sound wrong compared to the ones in MO.
I thought this was an interesting take on the Tosh thing. [link] Of course the more I read about him the more he seems like a waste of basic elements.
We have a fireproof safe that we keep all of that crap, along with Grace's IEP in. What weird priorities
I keep thinking I need to buy one of those for my passport/social security card/birth cert.
Also, growing up in flat flat Indiana means that I still am all "ooh! Fancy!" when I see e mountains and water in Seattle. Love it even after 5 years.
It's comforting to see how many people confuse "but you never complain when bad things happen to guys!" with "I think you're a boring whiny windbag!" If you manage to trot through half these environments and not see people complain about M2M prison rape, for instance, that's likely on
you
and not for lack of "God, Stabler, you went there AGAIN???" Factor in that the more personally threatened a person feels the more likely they are to speak out--it does seem much more balanced than the people giving MRA a lousy name claim.
Tommy, I have to tell myself many of those are 'shopped, and the rest were comped a high-quality laser removal with good painkillers. Sheeit.
Unrelatedly--anyone here deliberately stop a car and a half, two cars behind the next one at an intersection? Is the assumption that that's always an artifact of the driver not paying attention? Or is it something people mean to do?
Unrelatedly--anyone here deliberately stop a car and a half, two cars behind the next one at an intersection?
No. I hate that (especially when I can't make a turn because drivers ahead of me are doing it). I have no idea why people do that.
I stop well behind large trucks to avoid unsecured crap falling off them when they take off again, but with regular cars I figure if I can see their bumper over my hood I'm far enough away.
I don't know, there's something poetic about a No Regerts tattoo. Like they must really mean it.
