That is awkward.
Yeah. She taught French. It was a pretty small school, and French was far from the most popular language, so there were just two French teachers, and I was in her class for three years.
Let him do his thing, and then you get him out. No messing with him for laughs.
Mal ,'Ariel'
Spike's Bitches 48: I Say, We Go Out There, and Kick a Little Demon Ass.
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
Hil R. - Aug 21, 2013 6:28:01 pm PDT #3598 of 30002
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
sj - Aug 21, 2013 6:36:49 pm PDT #3599 of 30002
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Smonster, thanks. I'm home now. They were home at half past the hour because there was drama at the event they were at. Nothing too serious, I think. Sorry to bring the drama in here. I pushed myself a little too far today, and am on the edge of an anxiety attack. Also, my caffeine was wearing off, and I was worried that I was going to be too tired to drive home. Now I'm home and trying to decide between reading and sleeping. I'm tired but maybe a little to anxious to sleep. TCG is already asleep; I feel bad that I only saw him for about a minute today.
WindSparrow - Aug 21, 2013 6:40:40 pm PDT #3600 of 30002
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.
Ah. So "margin" as verb? Like "make time for?"
She didn't actually define her terms. She was using it like a noun, though. I suppose it means "breathing room". I very politely did not roll my eyes when she said it three times in her speech and the rest of The Cabinet nodded like it meant something to them.
SuziQ - Aug 21, 2013 6:42:31 pm PDT #3601 of 30002
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame
Update on the night. CJ did make sergeant. His was the last promotion announced. There was more drama than expected related to a different promotion. Hurt feeling and parents snubbing other parents. Will be interesting to see how that shakes out. Luckily it doesn't (and shouldn't) have a direct impact on CJ.
Funny FB side note - I posted a picture of CJ and his Lieutenant, just bragging on them (their promotions were the least controversial). Well, one of the Board of Directors then posted it on the ARP FB page saying "Congrats on all the promotions". I just hope that doesn't spark any other drama.
sj - Aug 21, 2013 6:43:37 pm PDT #3602 of 30002
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Congrats to CJ! I'm sorry about the drama.
WindSparrow - Aug 21, 2013 6:45:43 pm PDT #3603 of 30002
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.
sj, I'm glad you got home safely.
I'm hoping to get some actual sleep tonight. To get to the luncheon, we had to leave at 8:30. Ingot about 2 hrs sleep last night. Tomorrow, there is a staff meeting at 8:30 that I suspect will last longer than the scheduled two hours. Then I have to be to actual work at 1:30.
I'd be more enthusiastic about losing sleep for staff meetings if the bosses would schedule them for times when they were going to have to lose sleep too.
WindSparrow - Aug 21, 2013 6:46:35 pm PDT #3604 of 30002
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.
Yay, CJ!
Scrappy - Aug 21, 2013 7:20:08 pm PDT #3605 of 30002
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Congrats, Sergeant CJ!
Zenkitty - Aug 21, 2013 7:24:43 pm PDT #3606 of 30002
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
Congrats to CJ!
Atropa - Aug 21, 2013 7:35:15 pm PDT #3607 of 30002
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Congrats, CJ! That's awesome!
Rebuttal letter off to my awesome sanity check crew.
Oh! I forgot to tell you guys about the wonderful thing that happened last night. We stopped at my favorite cupcake shop after dinner, and the person at the counter was this awesome punk rock girl with tattoos, blue-ish hair, and tiny devilhorns clipped to her hair bandanna. We chatted with her about some annoying stuff in the news, Pete told her the quote about "If you're under 30, you weren't promised a future with a flying car, you were promised a future with a cyberpunk dystopia. Surprise! You got it!", which cracked her up.
She decided to put some good out in the universe, and gave us our cupcakes as "A random act of cupcakery". I almost started crying, because it was pretty much exactly what I needed to restore my faith in the universe right then.