I'm horribly allergic to anything that bites, so I'm covered in itchy, scabby welts. ND doesn't have a mark on him. I also react like this to fleas, spiders, and sometimes even mosquitoes. Sigh.
Book: Yes, I'd forgotten you're moonlighting as a criminal mastermind now. Got your next heist planned? Simon: No. But I'm thinking about growing a big black mustache. I'm a traditionalist.
'War Stories'
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.
Pix - Aug 14, 2012 8:52:23 am PDT #18088 of 30001
The status is NOT quo.
Zenkitty - Aug 14, 2012 8:56:11 am PDT #18089 of 30001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
Yuck, Pix. I hope it's just fleas or some critters easier to deal with.
"I hope you have fleas" is not something I ever imagined saying to a friend.
Kate P. - Aug 14, 2012 8:59:15 am PDT #18090 of 30001
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
I'm horribly allergic to anything that bites, so I'm covered in itchy, scabby welts.
Ugh, so it already totally sucks even if it's not the worst-case scenario. So sorry!
Pix - Aug 14, 2012 9:04:22 am PDT #18091 of 30001
The status is NOT quo.
Thanks. I'm pretty miserable. But now I have a plan. The local mattress store sells the protect a bed cover, so I'm going to start with that. Then I will enlist the help of the bug-sniffing dog. Mostly I will hope if it is bedbugs, they haven't spread yet.
Atropa - Aug 14, 2012 9:06:23 am PDT #18092 of 30001
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Oh, poor Pix. I hope it's not bed bugs.
Amy - Aug 14, 2012 9:10:06 am PDT #18093 of 30001
Because books.
Ugh, Pix, that's a drag. I hope it's easily taken care of.
My German copies of Cold Kiss came! It's called Deine Lippen so kalt in German, which seems like a lot of words for "cold kiss," but still, very cool. And very pink, oddly.
Jessica - Aug 14, 2012 9:14:17 am PDT #18094 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I'm horribly allergic to anything that bites, so I'm covered in itchy, scabby welts. ND doesn't have a mark on him
Not to freak you out, but that was exactly my situation when I had bedbugs. Itchy scabby welts. (Apparently only a tiny fraction of the population is allergic to bedbug bites. Sometimes I hate being such a special snowflake.)
Burrell - Aug 14, 2012 9:32:27 am PDT #18095 of 30001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
Condolences to Liese and lisah.
And sending vibes to Pix, hope it's easily dealt with, whatever it is. Hate bugs.
As for dealing with death, I had a student last year who was a novitiate in a Zen monastery and from what she says, the Zen Buddhists seem to have a good bead on death as simply a part of life and not to be mourned. She spoke of one monk laughing through his final breaths. I've watched a lot of loved ones go, and that seems like a pretty magical way to die.
§ ita § - Aug 14, 2012 9:34:22 am PDT #18096 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Oh, my, god.
Why can't people answer the question I asked. "Do we need to X?" "We can X..." Dude, no. Do we need to? Does it solve any problems? Are we at a standstill without it?
"Do we have a subject matter expert in Y? Can you tell me who it is?" "I don't think we need one for what I'm working on." Great, that's really exciting, but it has nothing to do with my actual question, though.
meara - Aug 14, 2012 9:42:50 am PDT #18097 of 30001
Hah. Only java and P-C will likely get this, but I am being driven crazy by German data managers who FAIL COMPLETELY to get the concept of "resolved with sequelae". They were like "Well, but it resolved! If there's some other issue, you should make a new adverse event! And by the way you can't have a stop date. Or say that one of the criteria is that there's a permanent disability or incapacity". And I"m like "Then what the hell is the POINT of having resolve with sequelae as an option? Do you people need a dictionary?!"