Giles, if you would like to get by in American society, then you are going to have to follow our traditions. You're the patriarch. You have to host the festivities, or it's all meaningless.

Buffy ,'Sleeper'


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 § - Jan 02, 2013 8:07:21 am PST #6344 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

That's a start!

I don't want one, though! I really really don't want one. But I feel like I'm up against a wall, and this is the only paddle within reach. So to, ah, speak.

Tom, that calendar is way cooler than I am. Well, at least cooler than my cube at work.


erikaj - Jan 02, 2013 8:10:42 am PST #6345 of 30001
"Somewhere in this building is our talent." Toby Ziegler, my spirit animal

I have a calendar of the Mayhem guy.


Liese S. - Jan 02, 2013 8:11:31 am PST #6346 of 30001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

I was bitching last year because my mother-in-law usually buys all the women in the family a nice weekly desk calendar, and she hadn't last year. And apparently it got back to her that we'd complained, so I got one this year, yay! Way to be ungrateful, I know, but she seemed tickled that we'd liked them and missed them. Anyway, today I have the task I enjoy of going through the year and penciling in all the things I know about in advance. I have lots of electronic ways to keep tabs too, but sometimes I just need to look at a piece of paper.


msbelle - Jan 02, 2013 8:14:14 am PST #6347 of 30001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

I keep meaning to post. I got a Hobbit cup at the theater when we saw Wreck It Ralph. Just a large promo cup with pictures if anyone wants.


Liese S. - Jan 02, 2013 8:14:19 am PST #6348 of 30001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

Oh, Matt, that's terrible. I'm so sorry.


Jesse - Jan 02, 2013 8:16:33 am PST #6349 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I don't want one, though! I really really don't want one. But I feel like I'm up against a wall, and this is the only paddle within reach.

Well, of course you don't have to get it. But if no one has any better ideas....? It's a trial before the Big Installation, right? That seems worth doing to me. From outside your body/life/self, obviously.

she seemed tickled that we'd liked them and missed them.

Sometimes it's hard to know what's a rut and what's a tradition, you know?


Jesse - Jan 02, 2013 8:16:46 am PST #6350 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

And Matt, I'm so sad for your family.


msbelle - Jan 02, 2013 8:20:34 am PST #6351 of 30001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

Matt, your family is in my thoughts.


meara - Jan 02, 2013 8:21:55 am PST #6352 of 30001

Apparently insurance has "approved" the neurostimulator trial.

Hey, definitely a start. But I agree that i hate when you don't know how much things will cost. Or, say, when you are filling out your FSA paperwork, because work sent a handy "the deadline is 2/28!" email this morning, and the dentist info seems to be saying that you paid some random amount of $163.84, but still owe $350 or something, but maybe insurance will cover that, or maybe all but $20 or something?? Seriously weird. Luckily, with that and a couple of prescription receipts, I"ve covered the $250 I put in this year. Next year, I put in the max. And will immediately spend it.


sumi - Jan 02, 2013 8:25:06 am PST #6353 of 30001
Art Crawl!!!

Matt - my condolences. What a sad loss.