I've been out of the abbey two days, I've beaten a lawman senseless, I've fallen in with criminals. I watched the captain shoot the man I swore to protect. And I'm not even sure if I think he was wrong.

Book ,'Serenity'


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.


Polter-Cow - Aug 22, 2012 8:58:42 pm PDT #19129 of 30001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

If her first two plans fail, we will move on to fancy dancy prancy romancy Nancy Ann C. Yancy's Plan C.


billytea - Aug 22, 2012 9:23:51 pm PDT #19130 of 30001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.

If her first two plans fail, we will move on to fancy dancy prancy romancy Nancy Ann C. Yancy's Plan C.

Because "No, wait, this time it'll work!" is just what you want to hear from someone dancing around in a horse costume.


Sophia Brooks - Aug 23, 2012 2:22:24 am PDT #19131 of 30001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

Is it possible for your uterus to fall out because of cramps? I rather stupidly forgot to bring my advil home with me last night and was fine until about 2:30 am. I got on the first bus I could and got to work about an hour ago, took advil, and lay on the floor. I was hoping to sleep before work, but no luck, because the cramps are still pretty bad. I am usually fine as long as I keep taking advil every four hours and don't allow them to break through, but now that it has happened. Grr.

I did remember that we have this new shower in the handicapped bathroom, so I just spent 20 minutes with hot water on my back and that was nice. Unfortunately a) I can't bring my computer in there and b) I had to maek do with paper towels. But the shower was lovely-- it had a seat and a hand held shower thingie. It seemed a little like the "private" showers we had for girls in middle school to shower in when they had their periods. Of course I never went in them because the popular girls just showered there and we showered in the open room, period or not.


Sophia Brooks - Aug 23, 2012 3:43:48 am PDT #19132 of 30001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

Ok- advil finally kicking in! I will try to be more coherent than above.


Jessica - Aug 23, 2012 3:47:59 am PDT #19133 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

I'm on a chat right now with Citibank and this woman is not filling me with confidence that she knows anything at all about banking.

First she tells me I haven't been charged any monthly fees (wrong), now she's telling me that the savings account I've had for 12 years isn't linked to the checking account I opened on the same day.

I think I'm going to change banks. This is bullshit.


Jessica - Aug 23, 2012 4:12:46 am PDT #19134 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

Ok, after 20 minutes of going through the customer service script, I have FINALLY converted this account back to the no-fee kind I used to have. (For some reason - ok, for a really obvious reason - when Citibank rejiggered their account types, I went from a no-fee account to a fee-unless-you-have-$15,000-all-the-time account.)


sarameg - Aug 23, 2012 4:33:45 am PDT #19135 of 30001

It's just ...odd to wake up to a piece on someone who you knew growing up: [link] They made the first 3.5 cast mirror for my dad's observatory in 1988. I made LOT of trips to his mirror lab.


§ ita § - Aug 23, 2012 4:43:10 am PDT #19136 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I can't believe I have a 7AM meeting today. Solid through 9:30, to boot.

Don't want this reality.


JZ - Aug 23, 2012 4:48:44 am PDT #19137 of 30001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.

aurelia, I love you. My family used to do word games like that on every summer car trip ever; reading about Nancy Yancey just gave me such a visceral wave of... not just nostalgia, but SUMMER, and the car bouncing over crummy road and the dog sticking her nose in the air vent and Lake Tahoe off in the distance. It was like deeply concentrated 99% pure distilled essence of summer in one quick moment. I seriously think I'm going to be summer-giddy all day. Thank you for that, so much!


Liese S. - Aug 23, 2012 5:02:48 am PDT #19138 of 30001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

That's really awesome, sarameg. That guy sounds amazing. Crazy, but amazing. That's the kind of science I wish we were really putting our dollars behind.