I can beat up demons until the cows come home, and then I can beat up the cows.

Buffy ,'Dirty Girls'


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.


Cass - Sep 06, 2012 3:28:37 pm PDT #21232 of 30001
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.

They'll tell me, like they did before, to take short term disability.

Is short-term disability an option? I mean, yes a couple of months to recover seems like a lot of time, but you might not be in the ER over fifty times a year and be able to have more of the life you want instead of dealing with constant nearly intolerable pain. I mean, if it works. I don't know what kind of downtime the trial requires but... if it works?

You remember that I have a battery in my ass?

I've read worse in fanfic. You could have a baby in there.


Typo Boy - Sep 06, 2012 3:28:46 pm PDT #21233 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.

JZ thanks those are good analysis. And classic rhetorical techniques. (Rhetoric again not in the insulting sense of empty talk, but Rhetoric in the classical sense of understanding the difference between a spoken and a written argument. Mind you a lot of written communication can be improved by these techniques.)


Zenkitty - Sep 06, 2012 3:43:45 pm PDT #21234 of 30001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.

I suggest incorrect capitalization to solve the confusion. rhetoric and Rhetoric.

They'll tell me, like they did before, to take short term disability.

Also not wanting to be all up in your business, but just for a data point, I took short-term disability when I had foot surgery, and while the pay cut was a bummer, it worked out much better than trying to work when I couldn't walk.

Good grief, the convention has reduced me to tears twice already and they're barely begun the evening's shenanigans.


msbelle - Sep 06, 2012 3:52:31 pm PDT #21235 of 30001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

So just listening to Kerry - it is a powerful, emotionally speech with inflection. As soon as I look at him it seems flat. sad for him.


sarameg - Sep 06, 2012 4:38:19 pm PDT #21236 of 30001

STD anecdata: my boss had to go on it for almost 3 months after spinal surgery at basically the worst time for her professionally. She had just started as my interim boss, to become actual boss when my current boss burned the last of his vacation and officially retired. It was also the start of the Servicing Mission. She was going to be flat on her back for a month or two, unable to really even check in.

She wanted to postpone it. Even though she was waking up with breakthrough pain in the middle of the night on narcotics. But the mission head and the team were all very supportive of her going ahead with it. It was a little chaotic, and some things did get screwed up, but not irreparably. We made it work. It didn't seem fair to ask her to wait when work COULD be handled without her.


flea - Sep 06, 2012 4:40:07 pm PDT #21237 of 30001
information libertarian

This paragraph:

STD anecdata: my boss

Did not go where I was expecting. Thank god.


sarameg - Sep 06, 2012 4:43:24 pm PDT #21238 of 30001

AHAH. Oops. Short Term Disability. We used the acronym so much in email traffic, it lost meaning.


hippocampus - Sep 06, 2012 4:43:32 pm PDT #21239 of 30001
not your mom's socks.

I am Flea.

Backtracking, because I am miserably behind: Consuela, I'm sorry for your loss. Cash, I'm so freaking sorry. Ita - all good wishes for the pain to go away. I hope HR gets a clue. They need you at your job. You're good at it. They should figure how to make it work.


Steph L. - Sep 06, 2012 5:00:54 pm PDT #21240 of 30001
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

One thing sure hasn't changed in the 4 years since the last presidential campaign: Joe Biden has mesmerizingly gleaming white teeth.

Also, I think he's had Botox. His forehead is suspiciously smooth.

t /shallow

And yes shallowly, he is FIRED UP. Go Joe!


Cass - Sep 06, 2012 5:04:56 pm PDT #21241 of 30001
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.

Did not go where I was expecting. Thank god.

Not alone in that.

Wow, watching an ESPN film on the sports world June 17, 1994. I still have very strong feelings on OJ Simpson apparently. But the whole white Bronco chase was happening during my birthday dinner that year and there was a tv in the bar area. Things have changed so much in news coverage.