I'm taking Monday off because it's my birthday, so it's kind of like getting Veteran's Day off. (Though schools are out that day so it's not going to be a real vacation.)
'Dear Diary, Today I was pompous and my sister was crazy.' 'Today, we were kidnapped by hill folk never to be seen again. It was the best day ever.'
Jayne ,'Safe'
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.
Jessica - Nov 05, 2012 7:35:04 am PST #28664 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
brenda m - Nov 05, 2012 7:36:14 am PST #28665 of 30001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
"of course it only works if you're open to it"
Which means it's all on you if it still hurts! Thanks, helpful nurse. I just don't even.
Connie Neil - Nov 05, 2012 7:47:11 am PST #28666 of 30001
brillig
Sue - Nov 05, 2012 7:48:52 am PST #28667 of 30001
hip deep in pie
she says "of course it only works if you're open to it" Yeah. That's what's at hand here.
Fuckin hell!!!
Steph L. - Nov 05, 2012 7:50:01 am PST #28668 of 30001
I look more rad than Lutheranism
There's also this Two Lumps/Doctor Who-related comic: [link] Which I think is hilarious because I am 12.
Liese S. - Nov 05, 2012 7:53:40 am PST #28669 of 30001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Yeah, way to be all offended that your homeopathic remedy had a physiological reason why it won't work, nurse! Gee, if only you'd come along and healed my friend with your magical thinking earlier!
Also, putatively speaking, looking at airfares for my DC trip, I see that one of the cheaper options brings me into BWI but leaves from DCA. With Buffista help, does that seem logistically doable? I know there's Amtrak or something, and the hotel would be right by Union Station.
Also if I wanted to try to do anything else other than the protest, would peeps be around? (December 17thish - 20thish?) I'm assuming the day of the event (Wednesday) will be totally taken up because it's Native run, and by a guy who wrote a paper on the Navajo perception of time, at that.
Zenkitty - Nov 05, 2012 7:55:32 am PST #28670 of 30001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
What the fuck, ita !. Do any doctors work there, indeed. I'm sorry that you have to go through this shit AGAIN.
Don't get Veteran's Day off. Voting tomorrow between the early-morning and the lunch crowds; benefit of working from home. Doubt I'll actually be working, though, because power still hasn't been restored to the NJ offices and it doesn't look good for tomorrow either.
Sparky1 - Nov 05, 2012 7:56:16 am PST #28671 of 30001
Librarian Warlord
That's completely do-able, Liese. BWI has both AMTRAK and MARC trains (my last MARC ticket from BWI was $6) to Union Station and DCA is on the Metro.
We should be around!
§ ita § - Nov 05, 2012 8:08:08 am PST #28672 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I just got the "this has addictive potential" speech. So I reminded her that if I'd had what my docs recommended, I'd have had less dilaudid, and this bed would be open for ACTUAL SICK PEOPLE. Instead, I'm waving away nurses who keep offering me a little more dilaudid "just in case".
Oh, yeah--I'm totally setting shit up for addiction here, right? It's all on me? Hand to god, I have been turning down dilaudid for the last 4 hours because it's just dilaudid, not a plan. I don't want them to just keep a steady stream of opiates into my bloodstream that ends up to be way more than what my doctors requested, and way less effective.
Tom Scola - Nov 05, 2012 8:15:22 am PST #28673 of 30001
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
My day off tomorrow is back on! I don't have to come in, just be on call. (Yes, they're very flaky here).