Angie's List? Maybe a neighbor has a recommendation? My most recent experience with finding someone to work on well pumps was that the owners of the well found a dog whose owner turned out to have a pump supply and maintenance business. So that's an option, I guess.
Giles: I'm sure we're all perfectly safe. Dawn: We're safe. Right. And Spike built a robot Buffy to play checkers with. Tara: It sounded convincing when I thought it.
'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.
-t - Apr 25, 2012 5:26:21 am PDT #2279 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
sarameg - Apr 25, 2012 5:38:14 am PDT #2280 of 30001
I have nothing to add except that I will not pay 30 EU for an umbrella, I don't care if it is spanish. (I'm hoping I read the tag wrong, but there were 4 digits, and it WAS at El Corte Ingles.) Going to scope out some cheapass places now. Rain is predicted the next few days, not constant, but I'll likely want one. Or get wet.
Meeting end was anticlimactic. We did get complete group shot I am anxious to see. Everyone just sort of wanders off. Big football game tonight (Madrid vs Bayern.) Things might get a little wild around here.
OK, siesta hours are almost over, shops should be opening back up. And I'm gonna go visit the inside of Temple de Debod [link] after 18:00.
Lee - Apr 25, 2012 5:55:17 am PDT #2281 of 30001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Most days I feel like I'm constantly running out of time for... well, everything.
So much this. I'm going to be on an airplane for Dallas in less than 48 hours, and I'm behind on everything non-essential at work and my house is a mess and I haven't even thought about doing laundry, let alone packing, and and and
msbelle - Apr 25, 2012 5:57:09 am PDT #2282 of 30001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
I'm going to be on an airplane for Dallas in less than 48 hours
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checking email. sorry.
Lee - Apr 25, 2012 5:58:43 am PDT #2283 of 30001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
!!~!!!!!!
Check your profile email!
Hil R. - Apr 25, 2012 6:18:51 am PDT #2284 of 30001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
But isn't this how people do think about food? The food you grew up eating is in one category, and food from other countries with unfamiliar ingredients are in another. It's similar to language - French and Chinese have nothing in common linguistically, but if neither is your native tongue they're both going to get filed in the same part of your brain under "other languages."
But people will still say things like "I don't like ethnic food," which is a ridiculous statement unless the person saying it thinks all ethnic foods are alike.
Amy - Apr 25, 2012 6:20:45 am PDT #2285 of 30001
Because books.
I think that's usually just shorthand for, "I don't like foods I'm not familiar with."
Kat - Apr 25, 2012 6:26:31 am PDT #2286 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Like, Mexican food and Chinese food and Ethiopian food really have nothing in common other than being originally from places other than here, and putting them all under one label kind of makes it seem like that "not from here" quality is what defines them.
Have you been to my neighborhood? There is a restaurant on the closest corner. It's called Papas and Tacos (hee!) and it makes spaghetti, falafel, tacos, burritos etc., some sort of Armenian pizza thing and pizza. I think it's an ethnic restaurant.
le nubian - Apr 25, 2012 6:27:48 am PDT #2287 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
well, I know someone who literally did not like anything except beef and potatoes and macaroni and boiled vegetables.
Seriously.
This is the kind of person who does not like "ethnic food."
Jessica - Apr 25, 2012 6:30:35 am PDT #2288 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I think that's usually just shorthand for, "I don't like foods I'm not familiar with."
Yeah, that's how I'd read it. If your position is "I don't like trying new things," then it doesn't matter how different Thai and Greek food are from each other, just that they're both different from the food you know.
(I think this position is ridiculous because if you don't try new things, how do you really know what you like? But there are people in the world who really are that picky/set in their ways.)