Buffy: How bored were you last year? Giles: I watched 'Passions' with Spike. Let us never speak of it.

'Beneath You'


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.


SuziQ - Feb 10, 2014 6:35:17 am PST #19722 of 30000
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame

Boot, bra, clothes, and work. This is my morning so far. I'm ready for a nap already but I have three conference calls back to back.


Consuela - Feb 10, 2014 7:16:15 am PST #19723 of 30000
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

The one advantage of going back to Previous Employer would be getting back on a 9/80 schedule, which means a three day weekend every other week. So useful.

Dad's surgery must be over, I'm waiting for the doctor to come talk to me.


Sophia Brooks - Feb 10, 2014 7:31:19 am PST #19724 of 30000
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

I feel like retirement is going to be wasted when I am old. I wish I could do something like a reverse retirement!

I also have an irrational hatred for the words "Plenary Session" at any conference that is just a tiny tiny thing that no outside people are invited to. It is too formal. Also, this particular "conference" has 4 plenary sessions and lunch. There are no other kind of sessions.


Jesse - Feb 10, 2014 7:47:03 am PST #19725 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I don't know that that hatred is all that irrational....

The one advantage of going back to Previous Employer would be getting back on a 9/80 schedule, which means a three day weekend every other week. So useful.

Yeah, I think I would like that. It wouldn't fly here, I don't think, because people basically work all the time.


Sophia Brooks - Feb 10, 2014 8:24:05 am PST #19726 of 30000
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

I am pondering aspic(s) today. Why, why, why aspic? I have never had it, and I probably should try, but it seems so unappetizing. But, they were very popular from at least the late 1800's to, like, 1950, right? But WHY?


Tom Scola - Feb 10, 2014 8:27:00 am PST #19727 of 30000
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

why aspic?

There are lots of things that are objectively gross and disgusting that people nonetheless consume. Like cauliflower.


Amy - Feb 10, 2014 8:29:49 am PST #19728 of 30000
Because books.

Maybe because you could make it ahead and it didn't have to be served warm or really cold, Sophia? It's basically savory Jell-o, right?

I have inflamed lungs. And an antibiotic prescription. Whoo. My blood pressure was also 150/90 or something, which was unnerving. My blood pressure is usually normal to low.

So ready for winter to be over.


Calli - Feb 10, 2014 8:44:21 am PST #19729 of 30000
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

I've seen some snow coming down today, but nothing's sticking. And it looks like a couple of flocks of birds decided to hold a defecation contest on the window next to my cube. Sadly, the snow isn't washing that away. People keep coming up behind me, exclaiming "What is that?" Me: bird crap. Them: Why is it there?

I'm not the bird whisperer--how should I know?


Dana - Feb 10, 2014 8:51:15 am PST #19730 of 30000
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

There are lots of things that are objectively gross and disgusting that people nonetheless consume. Like cauliflower.

And Tom Scola throws down the cauliflower gauntlet!


Ginger - Feb 10, 2014 9:09:04 am PST #19731 of 30000
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda

I'm trying to decide if there's anything I need to do to prepare for Snowpocalypse 2: Electric Bugaloo. This time they're talking ice storm for Wednesday, so losing power is possible.