Can't even shout, Can't even cry. The Gentlemen are coming by. Looking in windows, knocking on doors. They need to take seven, and they might take yours. Can't call to mom, can't say a word. You're gonna die screaming but you won't be heard.

Dream Girl ,'Bring On The Night'


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.


smonster - May 22, 2013 2:29:15 pm PDT #441 of 30002
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.

He sounds very much like the type of person who thinks it's super easy to get a home run...and ignores the part where he was born on third base, while other people don't even have a damn baseball bat.

Yeah, he's got some serious Straight White Male privilege blinders on. I'm kind of flabbergasted because he is the nicest, most mild-mannered guy ever. Like, really. Kind and gentle and fairly intelligent. And, at least when I knew him, very passionate about the environment!


smonster - May 22, 2013 2:30:32 pm PDT #442 of 30002
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.

Hit post too soon. Oy, Steph. Sorry for all the work stress. I hope this all results in a much better job for you, but I know that does nothing to reduce the current worry.


Steph L. - May 22, 2013 2:33:44 pm PDT #443 of 30002
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe

Well, I do definitely recognize that this scenario is the best option, because a sale will allow Big!Boss to offer us some kind of severance, whereas if the company went bankrupt, we'd all be shafted. (I don't actually know that we'll get severance, but I have every reason to believe we will.) And we'll get unemployment. So things are better than they could be, but still terrifying.

And I may be getting courthouse-married soon.


javachik - May 22, 2013 2:33:53 pm PDT #444 of 30002
Our wings are not tired.

Tep, I know it's the last thing you want to hear, but my spidey sense tells me that this is going to result in an awesome outcome for you; maybe not immediately, but definitely near term!


le nubian - May 22, 2013 2:36:32 pm PDT #445 of 30002
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

Tep,

man. this is a lot to take in. You know, buffistas and friends of ours have had a very nice day getting married in a courthouse and having a reception/party afterward.


flea - May 22, 2013 2:40:33 pm PDT #446 of 30002
information libertarian

If you need a witness for a secret courthouse wedding, I work downtown. Just sayin'. (I have actually been a witness for a downtown courthouse wedding once!)

Also, if you get married at the courthouse, be sure to get your receipt, and take a picture, like amych.


smonster - May 22, 2013 2:45:06 pm PDT #447 of 30002
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.

Oh, and A, the other main participant in this discussion, I barely know. Met her once at the last bellydance workshop I took (she wasn't taking it, but was part of the dance community there). She makes super cool jewelry, if you want to help her pay off her crushing student loan debt (but you'll have to check back in August - [link]


javachik - May 22, 2013 2:45:17 pm PDT #448 of 30002
Our wings are not tired.

I'm actually on a desktop computer for once, instead of reading on my phone.

So, LAURA, I am SO glad you and B sold that boat. Your charming husband takes the cake! Hope it leads to a bit less stress.

Julie, I've been reading your saga for a while now and am glad it's resolved, even though you've got a couple of weeks of being inconvenienced in front of you. After that - voila! I'm glad it won't be haunting you any more.


Steph L. - May 22, 2013 2:45:28 pm PDT #449 of 30002
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe

You know, buffistas and friends of ours have had a very nice day getting married in a courthouse and having a reception/party afterward.

We'll still have the shindig in September, but I have a feeling I'm going to need to be on Tim's insurance before then.

If you need a witness for a secret courthouse wedding, I work downtown. Just sayin'. (I have actually been a witness for a downtown courthouse wedding once!)

Oooh! That would be awesome!

Also, if you get married at the courthouse, be sure to get your receipt, and take a picture, like amych.

Heck yeah! I'ma frame that sucker!


askye - May 22, 2013 3:52:09 pm PDT #450 of 30002
Thrive to spite them

I went to needlepunch class. It was fun. It's also called punch needle. The patterns I've seen (and the one we're doing) is kind of country primitive. Which is nice, but not my style. However, the lady teaching the class said it's easy to adapt patterns from cross stitch or even make your own.

I want to do geeky stuff.