tommy, I'm so sorry. I like sarameg's plan.
Alicia Keys is really kickass. What a performer.
Question: Will hiding in a cavern with stockpiled chocolate goods be any part of this plan?
Xander ,'Get It Done'
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.
Amy - Dec 12, 2012 5:24:59 pm PST #4200 of 30001
Because books.
Dana - Dec 12, 2012 5:25:06 pm PST #4201 of 30001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Oh, tommy, how...I don't even know what the right word is. Perplexing? Flabbergasting? Absurd?
tommyrot - Dec 12, 2012 5:26:38 pm PST #4202 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Yeah, my family is one of those where we don't talk about feelings much. I can tell they're concerned about my faith (they don't know I'm an atheist) but yet they never ask me about it. Afraid of what they might find out?
I dunno - maybe I should have come out to them as an atheist when I was younger. But doing it now just seems cruel. They'd never accept it.
Matt the Bruins fan - Dec 12, 2012 5:26:46 pm PST #4203 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
I found out today that the requests for 120 pieces of art that hit my desk yesterday afternoon (and should have been intermittently released to me starting last Wednesday instead of saved up for one massive dump at the end) absolutely have to be done by 9 a.m. Friday. I've been able to farm out about a third of it, but that leaves me responsible for over 80 drawings in two and a half days. Days during which I was supposed to be on vacation, I might add.
I foresee a conversation in which I ask the project manager what the fuck she was thinking.
tommyrot - Dec 12, 2012 5:28:07 pm PST #4204 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Thanks, guys.
Ginger - Dec 12, 2012 5:28:35 pm PST #4205 of 30001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
They also want to know why I donated sperm.
Because you rock.
Trudy Booth - Dec 12, 2012 5:30:07 pm PST #4206 of 30001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
Because your sister couldn't make any herself?
Consuela - Dec 12, 2012 6:00:02 pm PST #4207 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Because you rock.
Indeed. You did good by your sister and her partner, and I'm sorry your parents can't see it that way. I concur that you should spend the holiday with your sister & her family.
I had dinner with my folks, and I have to say, for all the money we're paying this place, I have yet to have a meal ordered where the staff didn't fuck it up. Tonight he forgot my dad's wine and brought me the entree even though I'd told him I was getting the salad bar. They're really really nice people, but the dining room staff are, sadly, just barely competent. When we got there at 6:30 there was hardly a clean table: restaurant service this ain't.
Happily, we had no argument about where they're living, which was nice. And now I'm home in my sweats with a decent glass of red wine and Jon Stewart on the Tivo.
sarameg - Dec 12, 2012 6:01:51 pm PST #4208 of 30001
Bad thought: they're too used to people forgetting.
Glad tonight went without too much drama.
§ ita § - Dec 12, 2012 6:03:35 pm PST #4209 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I can tell they're concerned about my faith (they don't know I'm an atheist) but yet they never ask me about it. Afraid of what they might find out?
Oh, that's a difficult position. I feel happy right now for the relationship I have with my parents and the condition they're in. It's all so fragile.
I just remembered I need to do my self-eval before the end of the week. My tomorrow off is a lot less off than my manager intended.
The top I'm wearing today is a result of shopping through my laundry bags--it took me a while to remember I owned it, and I could have stood to check in the mirror. I'm not sure why this black mock turtleneck makes my rack look so huge and my waist so high (well, okay, my waist is high-scratch that). But these look like a back pain issue in this top--I blame the (really tiny) (high set) keyhole, but I don't know why.