You GUYS! It's Friday, and I made it through the week.
This excites me more than it should, I admit, but at least it's something.
I am not having sex with Spike! But I'm starting to think that you might be.
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.
Lee - Oct 26, 2012 4:21:39 pm PDT #27211 of 30001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Kat - Oct 26, 2012 4:23:07 pm PDT #27212 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
I think it was all of you people. I was sitting still and eating bacon -- not avoiding!
Mmm... bacon.
HOW POSSIBLE?!
I think Grace's teeth are only held in her mouth by plaque anyway. She was super excited that her tooth was loose; she couldn't wait to show me. Then Katie pulled it right out. Wooble. I am sad.
Jesse - Oct 26, 2012 4:30:17 pm PDT #27213 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Is she expecting the Tooth Fairy?
Kat - Oct 26, 2012 4:32:14 pm PDT #27214 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Of course. Noah is so upset that she lost her tooth first.
Teeth freak me out.
Consuela - Oct 26, 2012 4:32:45 pm PDT #27215 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Consuela, ISTG, I would have stood at her desk and loudly eaten pumpkin bread, complete with open-mouth smacking noises and moans of pleasure. Fuck her.
HAH. Yeah, well, I didn't hear about it until a couple of days afterwards. And really there's no point, she's so... her.
Oh, wait, pumpkin bread! Right, here we go:
Betsy's pumpkin bread (not BHP, an old family friend):
Mix together 4 cups flour, 2.5 cups sugar, 2 tsp baking soda, 1.5 tsp salt, 1 tsp baking powder, 1 tsp cinnamon, 1 tsp nutmeg, 1 tsp allspice, 0.5 tsp cloves.
Add: 1 cup oil, 1 can (15 oz) pumpkin, 2/3 cup cold water.
Blend well, add: 4 eggs.
Add: raisins, dried cranberries, chopped nuts.
Pour into 3 well-greased loaf pans, bake at 350 for 50 minutes or so. Makes a lot, but it freezes really well.
sarameg - Oct 26, 2012 4:51:40 pm PDT #27216 of 30001
OK, this is weird. I've noticed it before, but kinda dismissed it, but I've still got some serious bionic nose going on. You know that particular smell left on your hands after using baby wipes? Like after they've dried out? Loki smells like that. Or rather, my hands do after an extended head-rubby session. He doesn't really smell like that.
Odd.
Burrell - Oct 26, 2012 5:17:36 pm PDT #27217 of 30001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
Oh Grace! How exciting.
So kids had their school Halloween thing. Franny was a grilled cheese sandwich but claims that she's going to be a hobbit along with her brother on Halloween.
Allyson - Oct 26, 2012 5:26:02 pm PDT #27218 of 30001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
Sifting through resumes at work is good times. I read that study about scientists choosing applicants with male names over applicants with female names, and also recommending higher salaries for the male applicants. The resumes were the same.
I'm now hyper aware when printing out the resumes chosen for interviews. A suggestion I've seen a few times is to remove the name from the resume to reduce bias. However, a crazy number of applicants were Eagle Scouts, or members of Societies for Female Engineers and so forth. They list fraternities and sororities and whether they were members of a football team or cheerleading squad that would at the very least hint very heavily at gender.
As an aside, I got to pull a resume in which the listed hobby was being part of several breakdancing squads.
I HAVE SO MANY QUESTIONS FOR THIS APPLICANT.
amych - Oct 26, 2012 5:41:55 pm PDT #27219 of 30001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
I HAVE SO MANY QUESTIONS FOR THIS APPLICANT.
Can one of them be "Bust a move"? Only in the form of a question?
Trudy Booth - Oct 26, 2012 5:42:02 pm PDT #27220 of 30001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
I would totes eat the pumpkin bread of my nemesis. Because pumpkin bread!
I would eat EXTRA pumpkin bread and enjoy it thoroughly, thereby foiling his or her nemesiezing.
Ms Belle, have you tried a ticking clock in the crate? Do they still MAKE ticking clocks?