You know, you just don't see enough headlines about being stabbed with a samurai sword.
I'll be in my bunk.
Jayne ,'War Stories'
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.
Frankenbuddha - Feb 20, 2014 9:54:40 am PST #20499 of 30000
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
shrift - Feb 20, 2014 10:17:02 am PST #20500 of 30000
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
During the Olympics Women's Ice Hockey Gold Final, I was on a conference call with Canadians while exchanging tweets with a Canadian friend who was on a conference call with Americans.
Sue - Feb 20, 2014 10:20:12 am PST #20501 of 30000
hip deep in pie
I hope the Canadians gloated politely.
Our interwebs have been slow with everyone watching online.
aurelia - Feb 20, 2014 10:20:48 am PST #20502 of 30000
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
Meanwhile, at the Drama Llama Lounge, the regular patrons are quietly sipping their drinks.
I keep feeling like I'm forgetting something hugely important. Like pants. (Note, I'm wearing a dress, so I am not, in fact, wearing pants, but). As if I'm going to show up in the entirely wrong city today, or something. I don't know what this freaky feeling is about.
If your life were a tv commercial this would mean that you forgot to close your front door and a bear is currently ransacking your fridge.
Beverly - Feb 20, 2014 10:23:45 am PST #20503 of 30000
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
I am oddly dissatisfied waking up on a day with no birthday. I think I don't like it. Can't it be birthday every day?
The neighbors are rebuilding their wall. The wall that the owner and his brother laid out with levels and sight lines and string and possibly astrolabes and calipers and things. Dead level. Our wall follows the slope of the street, which is definitely not the line of the house foundation, but hey. Imperfection is an art, right? Celebration of it is a necessary joy.
But see, the new wife isn't happy with level. She wants it *more* level. So her hubby and her son are taking the wall apart and rebuilding it. So far I haven't seen an astrolabe, but they may bring out the six-foot mason's level before they're done.
My life, so exciting.
brenda m - Feb 20, 2014 10:30:06 am PST #20504 of 30000
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Well, this meeting just got better. Everyone's phones went off on an Amber Alert and then my friend got a call from her husband. Her BFF was just carjacked. Jebus.
Jesse - Feb 20, 2014 10:36:38 am PST #20505 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Yikes, brenda! I hope he's ok.
Beverly, I feel similarly with my day-after-Christmas birthday. Like, everyone else wakes up disappointed, but I get an extra celebration.
juliana - Feb 20, 2014 10:38:17 am PST #20506 of 30000
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
But see, the new wife isn't happy with level. She wants it *more* level.
How more level can you get than dead level? There is none more level. Levels do not go up to 11.
Criminy, brenda. Good thoughts for your friend's friend.
I hope the Canadians gloated politely.
My Canadian did not. I am now vocally hoping for the U.S. men to kick Canuck butt in the semis. (No offense to Canadians here.)
Sue - Feb 20, 2014 10:41:29 am PST #20507 of 30000
hip deep in pie
Hey, I bet against the Canadian Men in my hockey pool. I figured there was no way Putin would let them win gold. In seems that it's the Finns who should now fear for their health and safety.
sumi - Feb 20, 2014 10:42:49 am PST #20508 of 30000
Art Crawl!!!
OMG, the Amber alert thing happened in my meeting too. Park Ridge?
Also - some people got the alert like 30 minutes after everyone else. Weird.