I am not...I am not the damsel in distress. I am not some case. I have to work this. I've lived in a cave for 5 years in a world where they killed my kind like cattle. I am not going to be cut down by some monster flu. I am better than that. What a wonder...how very scared I am.

Fred ,'A Hole in the World'


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.


Steph L. - May 26, 2012 2:07:19 pm PDT #6924 of 30001
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

Unrelatedly, when did folder take over and become a proper synonym for directory?

In my own world, when I realized my boss does not know what a "directory" is unless she's holding a phone book.

My office goes one further and refers to the directory named "Common" as the "Common file." It drives me bonkers. Chatty!co-worker and I tried to get people to at least refer to it as the Common folder, but no. A frigging ginormous directory, and they call it a file.

(Of course, I still suspect some of my co-workers think you scan things by rubbing the sheet of paper against your monitor screen, and I am not making that up.)

Finally, as a decades-long Mac user, I still don't know what the fuck an F drive is, or why my co-workers think I can find it.


Jesse - May 26, 2012 2:19:49 pm PDT #6925 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Oh yeah, I think in my job, it's supposed to be "Shared files," but people definitely say "Shared file." I don't care, though!

Speaking of not caring, I just had the trashiest dinner ever: Buffalo chicken dip. So frigging delicious, even though I forgot I only had ranch dressing in the house, not blue cheese.


Jesse - May 26, 2012 2:20:35 pm PDT #6926 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Finally, as a decades-long Mac user, I still don't know what the fuck an F drive is, or why my co-workers think I can find it.

Also, I'm pretty sure that's a thing you can learn. It's not magic!


§ ita § - May 26, 2012 2:30:59 pm PDT #6927 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Is that tunic really tunicy or a dress? It's adorable but seems more like a dress.

I think you're reading the long cami as dresslike, but it's not attached to the blouse.

The only short non-leather jacket I have has kind of a waistcoat style to it, so I don't know if would clear the ruffles in the back properly or not.

But I'm really feeling I should try it, although I don't go bare-armed much just because I end up getting cold.


Kat - May 26, 2012 2:33:16 pm PDT #6928 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

I'm confused. Are there ruffles in the front also?


Steph L. - May 26, 2012 2:40:14 pm PDT #6929 of 30001
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

Finally, as a decades-long Mac user, I still don't know what the fuck an F drive is, or why my co-workers think I can find it.

Also, I'm pretty sure that's a thing you can learn. It's not magic!

Never! (Actually, it's one of the servers, but on my computer, they have actual names [like "SYSTEM" -- we are just brimming with creativity], so when a Windows user tells me it's on the "F drive," I have to stop and remember which damn server that is. Apparently on their computers it says something like "F: SYSTEM." I think.)


Jesse - May 26, 2012 2:43:48 pm PDT #6930 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Oh -- other people are working on Windows machines, but you're on a Mac? OK, I can see where that's confusing, if you don't even see the letters.


§ ita § - May 26, 2012 2:57:35 pm PDT #6931 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Are there ruffles in the front also?

I think the front ruffles are the cami, not the blouse itself.


Cass - May 26, 2012 3:03:42 pm PDT #6932 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.

I do miss the world. And the people in it. I might find myself on short term disability, and then I'd be bored beyond belief, because the world is just out there, but it takes me hours to be able to get ready enough to enter it. Or to let it in here, in any form but electronically, or those guys at the door bringing stuff.

I miss the world but then I go out in it and the world makes me shaky and angry. This is probably because I had to go to CostCo today.

The world should be easier to be in though.

I misread that for a second and was all "There's a UK version of LotMS?!" (Life on the Murder Scene, the Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge-era MCR documentary.)

I had that hope for a minute. Because, if it existed, it'd be easy peasy to find it online, I am certain.


Matt the Bruins fan - May 26, 2012 3:15:50 pm PDT #6933 of 30001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand

Hot damn! Upgrading to digital cable has allowed my TV to receive Chiller. Weekend afternoons with nothing to watch are now a thing of the past.

There's a Finnish movie staring Gwar-esque rock band Lordi on right now.