Early: You folks are all insane. Simon: Well, my sister's a ship. We had a complicated childhood.

'Objects In Space'


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.


meara - Apr 11, 2014 10:12:50 am PDT #24937 of 30000

Hey several of those jobs are for working in either my company or one just like it. Teppy, let me know if you want to chat, possibly about some keywords. Or get me a recruitment bonus. :)


Kat - Apr 11, 2014 10:53:07 am PDT #24938 of 30000
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

So the giant bus crash in NorCal? One of the students who died (though he attends another high school now) was attending my school two years ago and last year I taught his younger brother.

Oof.


§ ita § - Apr 11, 2014 11:17:25 am PDT #24939 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Teaching makes for a small world, doesn't it?

I just whiffed the ball. Missed a meeting I scheduled that now can't be had before Tuesday. And it was shit I wanted to get off the ground pretty urgently too. This week is not my week.


Burrell - Apr 11, 2014 11:30:31 am PDT #24940 of 30000
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!

Oh Kat, that crash is so heartbreaking! Oh, those poor families!

I am tired and cranky and have so much work to do I can't possibly meet my deadlines. Plus a sick kid at home, and unavoidable distractions in the form of my sister coming and so needing to devote half the weekend to cleaning my sister's apt. Ugh. I am going to be so broken by summer.

Sorry for the whine. I should just keep my eye on tonight's reward: Book of Mormon tickets! And no fever, so I get to go!


-t - Apr 11, 2014 11:45:11 am PDT #24941 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

I'm so sorry, Kat. When I heard about that on the radio I wondered if it was kids you might know.


meara - Apr 11, 2014 12:04:47 pm PDT #24942 of 30000

OK, so I've been scanning in a whoooooole bunch of old pictures. And it's hilarious trying to date many of them. Some I went through at some point and wrote in captions, and put them in an album. Others are still in the envelope from the photo lab, and I went through for most of those and wrote "2/2003" or whatever on them. But some are loose, and some have no date. So I'm like "Well, so and so broke up a few months after I moved into that apartment, so this party must be June-July 2001?" and "Hmm, Burrell is playing with a small angry child in this picture, is it her kid or Aimee's? If so when is that?" (I later found a date on that one, 12/2003), and "Flea is pregnant in this picture, but there's no Casper in any of the other pictures, so maybe she's pregnant with Casper? When WAS that?"


Burrell - Apr 11, 2014 12:20:24 pm PDT #24943 of 30000
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!

Ha! I'm pretty sure that the kid in the 12/2003 picture has to be my first one.

DH has been uploading a bunch of old baby pics of the kids and pic from when I was pregnant. Good times! I hadn't forgotten how cute my baby girl was of course, but I had forgotten how visceral the punch is for me of seeing her wee perfection and her infectious smile. For example, this and this

oops, links don't work


§ ita § - Apr 11, 2014 12:43:22 pm PDT #24944 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Speaking of pics, Burrell, I still haven't given you those from that shoot, have I?


Burrell - Apr 11, 2014 12:48:33 pm PDT #24945 of 30000
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!

Not yet. Was just looking at those too. God, I was so young! Cody was even younger. Seems ages ago now.


Burrell - Apr 11, 2014 12:49:20 pm PDT #24946 of 30000
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!

There are two in particular that I am very fond of.