Oh, I wish those council guys would let me have an hour alone in the room with her, if I was larger and had grenades.

Willow ,'Storyteller'


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.


Consuela - Dec 05, 2012 10:17:37 am PST #3268 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

I am taking out my upset on the files in my office. Lots of old stuff is getting roundfiled.

I feel really shitty today.


Kate P. - Dec 05, 2012 10:22:01 am PST #3269 of 30001
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love

Ugh, Consuela, that's so hard. I hope you can go for a nice long walk or go out to dinner with a good friend. Something to help you shake the shittiness.


Maria - Dec 05, 2012 10:29:07 am PST #3270 of 30001
Not so nice is that I'm about to ruin a Friday morning for a bunch of people because of a series of unfortunate events and an upset foreign government. - shrift

'suela, I'm sorry. It sucks all around.


brenda m - Dec 05, 2012 10:33:36 am PST #3271 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

Shit, suela. What an awful day.


-t - Dec 05, 2012 10:38:50 am PST #3272 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

I'm so sorry, Consuela. What a lot of crap you have to deal with.


Sparky1 - Dec 05, 2012 10:57:27 am PST #3273 of 30001
Librarian Warlord

Consuela, I'm sorry.

In other craptastic news, my boss is retiring in June. Not unexpected, at all, and he's put it off for a while now so we'd have his voice during all the changes so not undeserved, either.

I just wish he'd been able to stay for another year (while we figure out the new Dean).


§ ita § - Dec 05, 2012 10:59:11 am PST #3274 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I just blithely placed an order for a $6 pair of hose, and didn't realise it defaulted to UPS Next Day Air for shipping. Thankfully I used Google Wallet and it was sitting there telling me I had 15 minutes to cancel my order. GOOD LORD. $6 hose means if they arrive too late for the wedding, I won't cry. It does not mean I'm going to pay $62 to get them tomorrow.

Speaking of the wedding, I have a construction question--I'm going to use a piece of ribbon as an ad hoc choker. Is there a simpler way to tidily fasten the back than attaching a snap fastener, but with the end rolled over and stitched down so you can't see it?


Hil R. - Dec 05, 2012 11:20:43 am PST #3275 of 30001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

Hil, if you're still on the lookout for a menorah, Apartment Therapy has a nice roundup:

Thanks. I think I'm going to wait until I can go to an actual store, though -- I've had a few too many experiences of buying Judaica stuff on the internet where the object delivered looked really different from the photo.


Jesse - Dec 05, 2012 11:22:16 am PST #3276 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Oh, speaking of hose! I had a stroke of genius at Target. I'm always looking at the tights for sale, and know that the M/T size probably won't quite fit me (I am definitely NOT medium), but it didn't occur to me until now to just go up a size! I am so happy in the 1X/2X size right now, I don't even know. Do other people have this feeling all the time? That your tights are big enough? It's amazing.


flea - Dec 05, 2012 11:26:45 am PST #3277 of 30001
information libertarian

No, I almost never have that feeling that my tights are big enough. Signed, they mostly do not make tall sizes and going up a size does not help.