Captain was looking for a pilot. I found a husband. Seemed to work out.

Zoe ,'Bushwhacked'


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.


Jesse - Sep 17, 2013 8:43:36 am PDT #5493 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

My fall clothes are a little snug.

I am scared to pull out the winter clothes, due to having hit new levels of sloth this summer. Yikes.


meara - Sep 17, 2013 8:44:11 am PDT #5494 of 30000

Working from home is bad not just because of eating, but because there's so much less little movement through the day. When I wore my fitbit, if I wasn't careful on work from home days I'd get maybe 1000 steps. Whereas other days, at least 6-7000 just from getting places and walking around. Bad.

I had a bizarre dream last night that I was supposed to be flying to London, and first almost got on the wrong plane because Alex Wong (from SYTYCD) was going to show me some video from a new SYTYCD I hadn't seen, but then realized it was the wrong plane, so went to the right gate, where they were paging Sigourney Weaver to get on the plane (she was hanging out leaning against a wall). ...WTF brain? Sigourney Weaver??


Amy - Sep 17, 2013 8:46:43 am PDT #5495 of 30000
Because books.

because there's so much less little movement through the day

Exactly. When I was working in town, we were at my mom's, which was on the third floor, I walked to work a few blocks, and then my desk was on the third floor. So I was climbing stairs at least, all day long.

Mostly to go outside for a cigarette, but still.


Amy - Sep 17, 2013 8:47:53 am PDT #5496 of 30000
Because books.

In unrelated news, a girl at the publisher I'm working with freelance just sent me something, and in her email said, "Here you go, Hun!"

That word does not mean what you think it does, dear.


Typo Boy - Sep 17, 2013 8:50:43 am PDT #5497 of 30000
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.

Tell her she has three days to surrender or only the the blue heaven knows what will happen.

In terms of steps and working at home. My computer is downstairs. My printer is upstairs. That definitely adds steps to my day. Also I make a point of pacing when on the phone, only stopping for a moment if I need to take notes.


shrift - Sep 17, 2013 8:53:22 am PDT #5498 of 30000
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty

Okay! I'm going to finish this review! I just need to figure out what I do well.

UGH I DON'T KNOW.


Amy - Sep 17, 2013 8:55:11 am PDT #5499 of 30000
Because books.

shrift, think fandom and write stuff like "recognizes and rewards initiative in team members" (like Chris Evans, who often takes his shirt off in pictures).

I don't know. It could work.


Dana - Sep 17, 2013 8:55:50 am PDT #5500 of 30000
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

You're good at not hiding from giant insects?

RoachWatch 2013 update: It is still lying on its back in roughly the same place. I managed to run into the kitchen for Coke and a Luna Bar so I don't starve.


Matt the Bruins fan - Sep 17, 2013 8:56:40 am PDT #5501 of 30000
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand

What's so weird for me is that I started when Sara was just a few months old, and she'll be ten in November. But when I first started posting, it felt like the board had been here forever.

To be fair, the community is actually several years older than the board itself.


meara - Sep 17, 2013 9:05:49 am PDT #5502 of 30000

It's weird--we've been "here" so long now that my brain overlays everything that came before with this. So it seems puzzling to me that the 9/11 stuff could possibly have NOT been on b.org, and was at WX instead. Then again, my brain does the same thing with stuff like texting--I know I pretty much never texted until I got a smartphone, and yet when I think of contacting some people back in the day my brain goes "I must have texted them to ask if I should pick up food", even though I know I probably actually called.