Have you drunk-dialed Congress yet?
Dawn: I thought you were adequate. Giles: And the accolades keep pouring in. I'd best take my leave before my head swells any larger. Good night.
'First Date'
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.
Jessica - Oct 10, 2013 7:07:34 am PDT #8533 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
meara - Oct 10, 2013 7:15:50 am PDT #8534 of 30000
The fact that the Congressional GYM was deemed "essential" pisses me off to no end. Ugh.
Also on my list today: coworkers who call me at 8:15, after I have decided I am SICK and do not want to get up until I have to. And I really want soup and the Throat Coat tea, but I don't want to get dressed and go get it (...all of two blocks. I am spoiled). I am hoping to work up the energy by lunchtime, and drinking inferior tea until then. And some EmergenC. And eating pumpkin waffles.
§ ita § - Oct 10, 2013 7:18:04 am PDT #8535 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
That essay made me cry, Jesse. I could quote about half of it (someone else who can't tolerate mint! I am exhausted by the people who try and cure me with it...some variety mint is fine, other mint is an instant code red), but really, this sums up so much:
Only now, 20 years after my first migraine at age 12, do I fully recognize the insidious force that has made me less ambitious over time, less adventurous, and less fun.
And then the bit about flaking...well, nothing y'all haven't been regaled with, just in concise and illustrative terms.
Too much, too much.
I need to work out what it was about the Kit Kat that might have hit me so hard yesterday. At least I know it's not chocolate, since I've been eating dark chocolate this whole while. High glycemic sucrose? Really? That was almost as bad as an artificial sweetener headache.
But maybe it wasn't the Kit Kat after all. The most important thing is that I got some sleep last night and it's down a couple points today.
There was something I meant to say that wasn't about headaches, but I forget...
brenda m - Oct 10, 2013 7:18:14 am PDT #8536 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
Am feeling like a horrible person. I reached out to someone to see if she could take part in a client presentation a few weeks from now, and she responded that she was having a pre-something procedure in preparation for surgery she is having a few days later so it would be really difficult for her.
And upon instructions from above I responded to the effect of "great! that'll be so helpful if you can move it, please let me know asap."
A vague decline is nobody's friend.
meara - Oct 10, 2013 7:21:10 am PDT #8537 of 30000
And upon instructions from above I responded to the effect of "great! that'll be so helpful if you can move it, please let me know asap."
Seriously? Ew.
juliana - Oct 10, 2013 7:23:29 am PDT #8538 of 30000
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
Cash, that is some effed-up shit. I'm sorry that your mom has to wait so long.
Burrell, still thinking of you and your family.
Kat (and anyone else who needs it) - hugs and ~ma.
Brenda, I'm really sorry you had to send that out. Ew.
I do not want to be at work. I want to be home, playing in my garden.
brenda m - Oct 10, 2013 7:29:36 am PDT #8539 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
It was a little nicer than that, and did say it's okay if she can't, but still.
Jesse - Oct 10, 2013 7:32:47 am PDT #8540 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
ita, sadly, that was the part that first made me think of you.
Ouch, brenda.
Strix - Oct 10, 2013 7:38:29 am PDT #8541 of 30000
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Have you drunk-dialed Congress yet?
Nope, can't afford booze OR factory chicken!
§ ita § - Oct 10, 2013 7:41:36 am PDT #8542 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Well, in a complete change of topic, have naked, swinging-it-all Willem Dafoe dancing like a chimera: [link] (I'm assuming the naked woman moves so little because she's the titular sphinx--uninspired interpretation, IMO, disappointing).
Brenda, that's...sometimes I lack gruntle when it comes to "from above". Not all outlets let you caveat around it.