Once, on an episode of COPS during Mardi Gras, I saw someone I went to high school with. As a cop. That was unexpected.
Well, look at you. All dressed up in big sister's clothes.
Faith ,'End of Days'
Natter 71: Someone is wrong on the Internet
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 - Mar 25, 2013 4:34:24 pm PDT #16021 of 30001
I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."
sarameg - Mar 25, 2013 4:36:44 pm PDT #16022 of 30001
I think I paId $400 the year I bought my house. It was the year of the first-timer $8K rebate, and my first with a mortgage, so I wasn't comfortable with muddling my way through turbo tax. The next year, I used TurboTax and compared it to the previous year's to see if anything appeared out of sort. It didn't so with the AAA discount, feds and state cost me something like $40.
aurelia - Mar 25, 2013 4:36:46 pm PDT #16023 of 30001
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
KC South Patrol was one of the regular locations for COPS, which is totally my old hood. I figure I had even chances of knowing one of the cops or one of the people being arrested.
Sophia Brooks - Mar 25, 2013 4:38:16 pm PDT #16024 of 30001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
This is reminding me of when a hoodlum from my high school was the funeral director at my grandfather' funeral!
-t - Mar 25, 2013 4:41:07 pm PDT #16025 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Tonight, instead of figuring out how much of a seder to provide for myself, I will be working my last inventory. This is somehow both very wrong and oddly appropriate (I think the wrongness adds to the appropriateness, as well). Maybe I'll have a glass of wine with Elijah when I get home.
NoiseDesign - Mar 25, 2013 4:43:44 pm PDT #16026 of 30001
Our wings are not tired
Before we got married, my taxes were $300, mine have been complicated for years, I usually have between 10 and 40 1099s to deal with, as well as income that isn't included on 1099 forms. I'm hug my accountant and hold him close because he charges a reasonable rate and does great work.
§ ita § - Mar 25, 2013 4:46:26 pm PDT #16027 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I had a hard time googling my high school friends, but I figured a name like Joyti Schahhou would have a decent shot and being the Joyti I knew. When I saw she was in prison for scamming hundreds of thousands of pounds, I did doublecheck to see if there were more than one.
Well, if there is, the same rowdy student who never believed I was a virgin went in on a scam with her husband and mother to bilk the guy she worked as an admin assistant for. Our high school got rid of undesirables who wanted to be admin assistants before A level, but I'm sure knowing that she aimed so high will endear her to everyone affiliated with our alma mater.
But, seriously, who has consecutive aitches in their name? Only people up to no good, that's who!
brenda m - Mar 25, 2013 4:50:50 pm PDT #16028 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
Ooh! I know a guy whose name is Kirchhan. So, there's two out there.
but I think the people I know most likely to be arrested still can't cross the river into Actual Boston.
Vampires?
Jesse - Mar 25, 2013 4:51:53 pm PDT #16029 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
For a small metro area, you would be shocked how much psychological distance there is between the two sides of the river.
Kat - Mar 25, 2013 4:57:36 pm PDT #16030 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
If I take surface streets, it takes me about 25 minutes and it's 12 miles. If I take the freeway and there is no traffic, it's 17 miles and about 20 minutes. There's a mountain between me and my school, which is at times irritating, but at other times gratifying in keeping some distance in place.
Before we moved, I was 1.25 miles away which took about 15 minutes to walk or 3 to drive. I much prefer my longer commute.