Well, a gathering is brie, mellow song stylings; shindig, dip, less mellow song stylings, perhaps a large amount of malt beverage, and hootenanny, well, it's chock full of hoot, just a little bit of nanny.

Oz ,'Beneath You'


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.


Nora Deirdre - Jul 25, 2012 11:31:34 am PDT #15433 of 30001
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)

The guilt definitely makes sense because it sounds like mama bird will be guilting you horribly if/when she gets this information.


Sophia Brooks - Jul 25, 2012 11:34:52 am PDT #15434 of 30001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

I can understand why you feel guilty, Strix, but it sounds like you put measures in place to see that it does not happen again. I kind of don't understand why the neighbors had to call the police to get ahold of Dan (unless they didn't know where he worked, but then how would the police know?).

Please tell me I am not crazy--

At work we have a pdf on our shared drive with everyone's room number and phone number at work. I made a shortcut on my desktop, and when I need to call someone, I look on this list. Everyone things I am INSANE because I don't print it out. I mean, I understand that different people do things differently, but they are really completely and totally baffled. They are also baffled that I don't have a telephone book or Office Max catalogue at my desk, because both things are available online.


brenda m - Jul 25, 2012 11:36:40 am PDT #15435 of 30001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there

Locked out of the house for three hours? In the daytime? Please. He's ten, not two.


Nora Deirdre - Jul 25, 2012 11:40:05 am PDT #15436 of 30001
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)

Locked out of the house for three hours? In the daytime? Please. He's ten, not two.

Yeah, that's kind of my thinking too? But not a parent, so IDK.


askye - Jul 25, 2012 11:40:33 am PDT #15437 of 30001
Thrive to spite them

Sophia, you aren't crazy. If you print it out then you'd have to stick it some place.

And when it gets updated you'd have to throw that out and reprint the new list (don't know how often it gets updated).


SuziQ - Jul 25, 2012 11:44:54 am PDT #15438 of 30001
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame

He is 10. It was a safe way to learn an important lesson. Yes, there could have been a different outcome, but there wasn't.


§ ita § - Jul 25, 2012 11:46:58 am PDT #15439 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Strix, I'm *so* sorry, but poor kid--that's kinda funny, and he'll probably go and get your numbers tattooed on his forehead so people can read it back to him if it happens again.

DON'T GO OUTSIDE WITHOUT TELLING ANYONE, KIDDO!

However, at ten, he really should have his address book in the cloud--that's a little irresponsible of him, don't you think?

I am currently flipping my nut at developers, but JESUS. Just know your stuff and do it, will you? Don't make me uneasy. I don't have the juice to be uneasy.

Apparently I had done the most reading for book club.

Given I thought it started at 1, and it really started at 12:30--that shows you how crap our little group was. And I dominated the discussion, because I'm nothing if not good at talking about stuff I kinda know something about. However, I totally promise to read the next two chapters, because me and the group leader have pretty much come to blows on the topic of chapter #5.

Use cases--very volatile subject. As I'm sure you all know.

I have been talking Dark Knight to...everyone internal and external, and it seems to crack guys up when I call people who've signed the NDA the League of Shadows, or complain that the New 52 gave Babs back the use of her legs (obviously I was very comfortable with that vendor, because I was waving my hands around in distress and agitation).


Steph L. - Jul 25, 2012 11:48:00 am PDT #15440 of 30001
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

I have been talking Dark Knight to...everyone internal and external

Chatty!co-worker hasn't seen it yet, and every day I rant at him that it is KILLING me that I can't talk about it with him.


aurelia - Jul 25, 2012 12:09:24 pm PDT #15441 of 30001
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.

So that job that I applied for back in April and interviewed for 6 weeks ago... I got it! I start in a week!


brenda m - Jul 25, 2012 12:10:20 pm PDT #15442 of 30001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there

Yay! Go you!