I am not...I am not the damsel in distress. I am not some case. I have to work this. I've lived in a cave for 5 years in a world where they killed my kind like cattle. I am not going to be cut down by some monster flu. I am better than that. What a wonder...how very scared I am.
Fred ,'A Hole in the World'
Natter 72: We Were Unprepared for This
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.
Burrell - Nov 10, 2013 9:22:16 am PST #11555 of 30000
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
Burrell - Nov 10, 2013 9:22:42 am PST #11556 of 30000
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
What's with the crazy double post?
Jesse - Nov 10, 2013 9:37:17 am PST #11557 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
It's just the peeling that takes the time, aside from baking (obviously). Are there any potential helpers around?
§ ita § - Nov 10, 2013 9:55:04 am PST #11558 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Burrell, as soon as I get my feet more under me again, low gly apple pie is coming your way--I didn't forget, and the apples are quite balefully reproaching me, even around the corner from the kitchen.
Burrell - Nov 10, 2013 10:19:37 am PST #11559 of 30000
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
Instead spent the hour revising the obit. That's why I don't like writing obits.
Jesse - Nov 10, 2013 10:23:08 am PST #11560 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I'm sorry you have to do it, Burrell.
Jesse - Nov 10, 2013 10:26:44 am PST #11561 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Huh -- just saw a gay tourism ad for Key West. I would say, wouldn't anyone who would want to go there already know about it, but I guess that's the same thing with Disney, and they advertise a ton.
Ginger - Nov 10, 2013 10:58:38 am PST #11562 of 30000
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Burrell, would you like me to take a look at it? In my newspaper days, I wrote many obits.
Connie Neil - Nov 10, 2013 11:07:10 am PST #11563 of 30000
brillig
Cue the Mary Tyler Moore Show ep of Mary and Rhoda drunkenly updating the station obit file.
flea - Nov 10, 2013 11:13:13 am PST #11564 of 30000
information libertarian
My work has been dealing since yesterday afternoon with various members of a group of 10 people who are going to China on 11/22 (yes, folks, in less than 2 weeks) and need passports and visas. We accept passport applications at work - with the time frame these people have, we require 1-hour appointments to do a special hand-carry application that goes via a 3rd party expediter. We are largely booked up for tomorrow already (we make appointments from 3pm on and take walk-ins 9-2:30) and I am so dreading working with these people when they actually start turning up all day tomorrow. All of the people I have talked to have uptalking very young woman voices. I should start an office pool about how many of them will be missing vital parts of the application and/or forget their checkbooks. When our Head Passport Guy talked to them yesterday, apparently they don't even have plane tickets yet (which are required to do a hand-carry passport; you have to have a valid travel itinerary showing you leave in less than 2 weeks.) I also feel like calling the nearest Chinese consulate to warn them now.