This is my boat. They're part of my crew. No one's getting left. Best you get used to that.

Mal ,'Ariel'


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.


Sophia Brooks - Aug 15, 2013 8:35:02 am PDT #2554 of 30000
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

how often does the fire inspector come?

Apparently at random. They will charge our school $800 per day from June 8th (the date of our first citation, which I did not get notified about)to whenever they catch me.

Our building supervisor told me to keep propping my door until he gets back to me because he thinks it is ridiculous. She is actually right that regulations state that a fire door cannot be propped, but I don't think every single office door in the building (except the newly remodled floor) should be a fire door. Of course, I looked like a crazy person yesterday checking everyone's door!


brenda m - Aug 15, 2013 8:39:28 am PDT #2555 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

Once walking Lucy in DC we ran into the woman who ran the day care and Lucy about flipped her shit, doing somersaults and acrobatics on the sidewalk. If I had any doubts about daycare they were gone then.


aurelia - Aug 15, 2013 10:03:33 am PDT #2556 of 30000
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.

yesterday my student and I were told we could not have our doors to our offices open (by the fire inspector) even when we were inside of them

I would've asked if it was okay to open the door to enter and exit the room.

Teppy, I've contacted my crafty person about the B and am waiting to hear back.

Debet and Hil, props does indeed have a mechanical typewriter. What now?


Ginger - Aug 15, 2013 10:07:51 am PDT #2557 of 30000
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda

I'm typed something, so I hope they're okay on the typing front.


Sophia Brooks - Aug 15, 2013 10:08:02 am PDT #2558 of 30000
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

I would've asked if it was okay to open the door to enter and exit the room.

Apparently, if there is a random fire in my office, this will contain it. However, I am pretty sure that if there is a random fire in my office the first thing I will do is open the door to leave....


Steph L. - Aug 15, 2013 10:09:03 am PDT #2559 of 30000
I look more rad than Lutheranism

Teppy, I've contacted my crafty person about the B and am waiting to hear back.

Thanks!


DebetEsse - Aug 15, 2013 10:27:25 am PDT #2560 of 30000
Woe to the fucking wicked.

Aurelia, Ginger is correct. Thanks to both of you. And everyone else who has helped. It's been quite the experience (All I have left, I think, is getting hug pictures and a shitton of video editing). Once all of this is over, I will be posting the photos and videos that we made.


§ ita § - Aug 15, 2013 10:42:35 am PDT #2561 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

However, I am pretty sure that if there is a random fire in my office the first thing I will do is open the door to leave....

In at least one hospital, you're supposed to close patients into their rooms, since all the doors are highly rated for fireproofness.


§ ita § - Aug 15, 2013 11:40:05 am PDT #2562 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I love the internet, because I don't have enough face to face conversations that go here:

I think I'd almost prefer having ants in my head than any orifice. The idea of them crawling, tiny feet tickling tender membranes as their mandibles seek a way to enlarge their new found home is just too disturbing to contemplate, even if the idea does find sweet, sweet relief when the anteater's tongue provides salvation.

Yeah, that was a sex thing.

I bought a (cheap) clock from Zulily and the hour hand is so random that sometimes I think it's an hour slow, and sometimes it looks on time. Right now, the hour hand is implying 12:50, while the minute hand is behaving as it should.


Kate P. - Aug 15, 2013 11:59:07 am PDT #2563 of 30000
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love

even if the idea does find sweet, sweet relief when the anteater's tongue provides salvation.

...Huh.

So, if I get a phone call from a number I don't recognize (701 area code) telling me, in a voice mail, that they're calling from a debt collection agency, and telling me to call an entirely different number (855 area code)... that's definitely a scam, right? Especially since they didn't use my name or any other identifying details, and I'm pretty damn sure neither M nor I have any debts that have gone to collections?