Mal: Does she understand that? River: She understands. She doesn't comprehend.

'Objects In Space'


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.


erikaj - Sep 20, 2013 5:24:23 am PDT #4869 of 30002
Always Anti-fascist!

How much is enough(although I think stepmonster tried to have this chat with me before, too, and some eager over-effort led to some caustic teen comments about my "staring problem"...how much is too much?


sj - Sep 20, 2013 6:01:57 am PDT #4870 of 30002
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."

I have Issues with eye contact. I mean to say that people tell me, I don't make enough. I think years of being stared at have kind of made me not want to look people in the eye

I understand this completely and have the same issues.


erikaj - Sep 20, 2013 6:15:17 am PDT #4871 of 30002
Always Anti-fascist!

Also, you know I'm a Weird Magnet, right? The people most eager to catch my eye always have insight about the Lord, or some CIA brainwave infiltration thing. I'd really like to get past it more, even though I also kind of think my mother is in some denial about how much the person-to=person reaction to me would change if I could break this habit/pattern.(Stepmonster just used to consider it girly bonding to buy me drinks and tell me what was wrong with me.) But I should be able to look a friendly face in the face when she asks me things.


sj - Sep 20, 2013 6:20:34 am PDT #4872 of 30002
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."

Also, you know I'm a Weird Magnet, right?

Once again, we are one in this. Have I mentioned the super creepy guy who I see around town who seems to think I should be his BFF? I can only assuume it is because he has a limp and he thinks that makes us the same or something. He really makes me uncomfortable.


erikaj - Sep 20, 2013 6:24:48 am PDT #4873 of 30002
Always Anti-fascist!

BTDT...I wish there were an answer that was simpler and more proactive than "Hope he gets distracted by shiny object" but it seems to happen eventually.


erin_obscure - Sep 20, 2013 10:51:50 am PDT #4874 of 30002
Occasionally I’m callous and strange

The full moon is over so hopefully things will settle down now? A little? Maybe? A girl can hope.

I'm wondering how long it's supposed to take me to adjust to a new muscle relaxer. I've been taking flexeril for decades and while I fell *nothing* after taking it it normally buys me a full night's sleep. Of course with current visceral abdominal pain that is not the case so Doc switched me to tizindine. Holy chocolate oats that stuff hits me like a ton of bricks...like, can barely walk or *focus my eyes* when i take it and it's been four weeks! Granted, i'm not taking it all during the days (911 frowns on employees appearing to be stumbling drunk while at work) and it sure makes me want to flop into bed and stay there forever (which is a sentiment already in effect every moment of every day) but the sleep is still 40% tossing and turning and i'm still tumbling out of bed exhausted. Morphine has been mentioned. I'm ready to seriously consider trying medical marijuana even though smoking anything is absolutely off the table for me and the thought of anything that might stay in my system longer than i can accurately predict is terrifying...but if there's any chance of a full night's sleep without serious addiction repercussions i'm in. (iomn, still no diagnosis aside from the 6cm "mass" on my liver which is allegedly asymptomatic. more consults next week. wheeeeee.)


§ ita § - Sep 20, 2013 11:12:51 am PDT #4875 of 30002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Congratulations, Teppy! Is this the really complicated one, or was there another sciencey job app in there?


Polter-Cow - Sep 20, 2013 11:13:35 am PDT #4876 of 30002
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

Congratulations, Steph!! That's awesome. Go you with your bad/good self.


Steph L. - Sep 20, 2013 11:25:44 am PDT #4877 of 30002
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

Congratulations, Teppy! Is this the really complicated one, or was there another sciencey job app in there?

The really complicated one rejected me pretty quickly, which hurt my ego, but I expected it.

This one is for the AMA. (I don't know why I didn't want to put that in Beep Me.) Editing for all the AMA journals, like JAMA and the other bazillion journals they produce.

Congratulations, Steph!! That's awesome. Go you with your bad/good self.

Thanks!!! Tim is a little sad he's not marrying a deadbeat, though.


Polter-Cow - Sep 20, 2013 11:30:24 am PDT #4878 of 30002
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

This one is for the AMA. (I don't know why I didn't want to put that in Beep Me.) Editing for all the AMA journals, like JAMA and the other bazillion journals they produce.

NICE! You rock.