I with the people who love Animal Dreams. I think I started with the Bean Trees and the other early books and didn't much like The Poisonwood Bible and have been unable to finished Lacuna.
Inara: You don't have to die alone. Mal: Everybody dies alone.
'Out Of Gas'
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.
sumi - Sep 10, 2013 6:08:38 am PDT #4800 of 30000
Art Crawl!!!
sumi - Sep 10, 2013 6:09:27 am PDT #4801 of 30000
Art Crawl!!!
Okay - check this out tiny secret paintings in books.
sumi - Sep 10, 2013 6:16:56 am PDT #4802 of 30000
Art Crawl!!!
An artist collaborating her her 4-year old.
aurelia - Sep 10, 2013 6:33:04 am PDT #4803 of 30000
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
"Anything you say will be used against you in a court of law" when they are supposed to mean "anything you say can/may be used against you in a court of law".
That's like the safety warnings on equipment that say "Death or injury will occur" instead of "may occur". My impression is that TV is about 50/50 on the Miranda rights, but I don't watch a lot of procedurals.
Jesse - Sep 10, 2013 6:35:52 am PDT #4804 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
May favorite is "Do not drive or operate machinery until you know how [Drug X] will affect you!"
§ ita § - Sep 10, 2013 7:17:08 am PDT #4805 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
And....everything is on fire this morning.
Last week is "provide weeklong support as we usher ~1000 new users onto our workstation". This weekend is "do the developer part of a task you've never done this before". Yesterday is "Did you fuck up being a developer? Where are those files?" Last night is "ignore the ringing phone". This morning is "WHY IS IT DOWN????????"
Absolutely zero of this is my normal job, which has its own cataclysmic stresses. Oh, boy, ever. And zero of it is my fault (so far--I'm running through ways why this failure could be on me...). But tell my blood pressure that!
Connie Neil - Sep 10, 2013 7:37:33 am PDT #4806 of 30000
brillig
check this out tiny secret paintings in books.
The Huntington Library has several fore-edge painting books, they were so neat.
§ ita § - Sep 10, 2013 8:10:26 am PDT #4807 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I AM NOT RESPONSIBLE!
Well, I should have answered my phone, but I'm not on a support team anymore! I'm off those chains! Also, I didn't fix anything, just got product support on the line.
But I was asleep, and my ringer goes quiet, and if it doesn't ring three times, I don't get out of bed. Call me a craven insomniac, but...I am.
Amy - Sep 10, 2013 8:35:25 am PDT #4808 of 30000
Because books.
Yeah, this is not sounding like your Best Day At Work Ever. Fingers crossed it all gets sorted out.
lisah - Sep 10, 2013 8:47:37 am PDT #4809 of 30000
Punishingly Intricate
Puppies having puppies!