Man, our defense is shit, though.
Giles, if you would like to get by in American society, then you are going to have to follow our traditions. You're the patriarch. You have to host the festivities, or it's all meaningless.
Buffy ,'Sleeper'
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.
Dana - Oct 07, 2012 4:16:24 pm PDT #24847 of 30001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
-t - Oct 07, 2012 4:21:03 pm PDT #24848 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
But that's kind of a comfortable and familiar problem. Or maybe that's just me.
Connie Neil - Oct 07, 2012 4:26:23 pm PDT #24849 of 30001
brillig
Speaking of doing things with writing, what methods have people used to convert text files to epub? I have Calibre, should I just work my way through the formatting there?
sarameg - Oct 07, 2012 4:50:10 pm PDT #24850 of 30001
Loki's been Spooky ever since I shut him between the screen and front door for half an hour today. I didn't do it on purpose! He snuck in there as I was shutting the door and distracted, and was only alerted by his cries later. He was grateful to be rescued. He couldn't turn around in there. Poor stupid cat.
But anyway, he's been finding New Smells ever since, staring intently and been jumpy. And then he's normal until he weirds out again.
Jesse - Oct 07, 2012 4:58:58 pm PDT #24851 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Ayup. It's so NHS!NHS! BAYBEEEZ. And I love it.
All poor people are basically jolly! And happy with their lot! And only have so many kids because the couples love each other so much! @@
billytea - Oct 07, 2012 4:59:14 pm PDT #24852 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.
And then he's normal until he weirds out again.
I'll take "Biyi's overheard phone conversations during our first year of marriage" for $200, Alex.
Consuela - Oct 07, 2012 5:25:29 pm PDT #24853 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
I have Calibre, should I just work my way through the formatting there?
That would be the simplest, I think, since you already have the software.
sarameg - Oct 07, 2012 5:33:47 pm PDT #24854 of 30001
Oh, bt, you have so much more smarts than the Lokes. By a trillion. I love this cat dearly and he amuses me to no end, but smart he is not. Accidentally clever at times, but smart? No.
Pumpkin and Devi, otoh, do scare me with their deliberate clever. Wiley. Churning cogs.
Kat - Oct 07, 2012 5:53:01 pm PDT #24855 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
I am so far behind on the catching up. Except to say, ita, sorry for your shitty ass experience. sara, sorry your market was grits free.
Jesse, yay! yoga.
Now I should really get cracking on the cooking. I am intrigued by cooking once a month, but sort of do that anyway -- at least, I occasionally make things that go in the freezer, often cook something on the weekend to eat several times during the week, and half-ass the rest of the time.
I half-ass our cooking once a month thing. Today was cooking day in our household and I made: chicken stuffed with pesto butter, beef stew, pork and green chile, which I tossed already and ruined a pan in its creation, cranberry chicken, beef chimichangas, pecan chicken with a honey whiskey cream sauce, sausage and green chile bake, pasta papa for breakfast, buttermilk and herb chicken and two more meals, but I can't remember what they are. It's good for us and less stress than cooking real meals each day.
§ ita § - Oct 07, 2012 6:02:23 pm PDT #24856 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Kat, I so badly wanted Helen back.
I'm panicking about what next, BTW. Once I get into the ER, I am out of phone range. My first meeting is at 8. I can't reasonably, even now, get in and out by then (I'm trying to gamble for getting a different doctor) and be cogent enough for that meeting.
My manager is out, which means informing my boss. Who is going to pitch an unholy fit, not least of all over today, and some of the decisions I made. I worked 5 or 6 hours today, some of them near midnight. I stopped when it hurt too much, and sometimes I just can't. But no boss wants to hear that of their employees, and no employee wants to tell that to their boss (or, well, I don't).
So I'm having to calm myself down from mild panic attacks to boot.