Book: Yes, I'd forgotten you're moonlighting as a criminal mastermind now. Got your next heist planned? Simon: No. But I'm thinking about growing a big black mustache. I'm a traditionalist.

'War Stories'


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.


§ ita § - Jul 12, 2013 5:38:15 pm PDT #29009 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

bird hold?


Amy - Jul 12, 2013 5:42:52 pm PDT #29010 of 30001
Because books.

Yeah, the bird thing is an additional confusion.

Melted cheese on demand would be amazing magic too.

Is there an orderly you can bribe to get you a grilled cheese from the cafeteria?


DavidS - Jul 12, 2013 5:43:59 pm PDT #29011 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Do you have a bird you like to hold?

I got it!

(Dr. Seuss)


Jesse - Jul 12, 2013 5:48:42 pm PDT #29012 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

The last time my grandmother was in the hospital for her heart, my mother told them about her throat thing, so she only got ground meals. And no salt. That was fun for her.


sarameg - Jul 12, 2013 5:49:06 pm PDT #29013 of 30001

Just one foot. It's tucked into the crook of my knee to warm it up. My body is weird. I'm pretty sure I bruised the balls of both my feet the last couple of nights in the pool. Doing the same thing I do every day. I don't even know.

The baby robin was fun to hold. But pigeons are much more substantial and muscular. t /literal


§ ita § - Jul 12, 2013 5:53:22 pm PDT #29014 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Since the room service seems totally okay with delivering cold toast I am not going to ask them to violate a grilled cheese on my behalf. I don't want that on my conscience or my tongue.

Their fruit plates aren't as bad as you'd expect, but it's ridiculously hard to get a constant supply of tea. Like, once they brought two tea bags instead of one. If I didn't have my travel mug it'd be a pain on the tech staff too as I bothered them for hot water.


sarameg - Jul 12, 2013 5:56:39 pm PDT #29015 of 30001

I've always been amazed at the lack of food diversity in hospitals. Even when it is the food court/hospital food service kitchen shared by the spendy new HYOOOGE Childrens and oncology complex in Birmingham, which is on the downtown UAB campus. Tons of donors and froo-froo stuff and yet the food court is teeny and uninspired. Hell, there's only one Starbucks in there and no other coffee shop in two huge, sprawling buildings. Now granted, plenty of good places to find food and drink nearby, walkable even, but if you can't stray far, lame.

And don't even try to find anything filling at Sinai here. And Ft Hood Hospital? The hospital for the largest army base in the US? After 7, vending machines only. The grilled cheese was...recognizable?


Amy - Jul 12, 2013 6:08:03 pm PDT #29016 of 30001
Because books.

The hospital where I had Jake and Children's here in Philly both have McDonald's right in the building. Which was convenient, but probably not the best choice in a place of, you know, health.


Polgara - Jul 12, 2013 6:13:24 pm PDT #29017 of 30001
Karma is a cat, sleeping in my lap cuz it loves me. ~TS

Can I bring you anything, ita?


§ ita § - Jul 12, 2013 6:13:40 pm PDT #29018 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

The cafeteria is much better than the kitchen, but neither are great.

And they can't fucking give me my last med until 10:30. I don't have two more hours of nothing in particular left in me. I wonder if I can skip that one...