Don't you just love this party? Everything's so fancy, and there's some kind of hot cheese over there.

Kaylee ,'Shindig'


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.


Dana - Oct 13, 2013 2:39:02 pm PDT #8894 of 30000
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

Well, that wasn't what I was looking for. Hard to win on the road, though, especially with Brees playing a strange game.


-t - Oct 13, 2013 2:40:42 pm PDT #8895 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Yeah. Well, at least Brady really had to work for it.


Jesse - Oct 13, 2013 2:45:13 pm PDT #8896 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Did you cook kale, Jesse? I also have kale taunting me.

I did, but not enough. I love kale! But still. I made this, but wish I had done it with more kale and less pasta.


-t - Oct 13, 2013 2:53:54 pm PDT #8897 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

That sounds good! Sadly, I'm stalling out at the chopping of the kale, which I think I need to do to do anything with it. It's only been in the fridge a few days, though, I'll get to it soon. Maybe I'll have chance to buy some bacon...

Probably I should make getting started on my gigantic head of lettuce a priority.


Connie Neil - Oct 13, 2013 3:01:27 pm PDT #8898 of 30000
brillig

I'm doing a course on Global Architecture on edX, and the first couple of lectures were very heavy on pre-historic sociology and all that, which I'm afraid I find terribly dull. I was tempted to jump ahead to what I'm interested in, Medieval and Renaissance architecture, then I realized that this truly is a history of architecture, ie, why did people start building structures and what they did with them. So it has to have a foundation of prehistoric development, hunting and gathering etc, and why that changed so that people would be in one place long enough to justify spending the resources on permanent structures.

It's good to do formal learning again, even if it's just online auditing.


Jesse - Oct 13, 2013 3:06:39 pm PDT #8899 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Probably I should make getting started on my gigantic head of lettuce a priority.

It's hilarious how many people (including me) don't take the lettuce anymore at the CSA pickup.


brenda m - Oct 13, 2013 3:07:29 pm PDT #8900 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

Ooh yum.


-t - Oct 13, 2013 3:08:23 pm PDT #8901 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Crap! My edX class started last Tuesday and I still haven't looked at the syllabus and what have you. I don't know if I'm up for that today.


Connie Neil - Oct 13, 2013 3:12:58 pm PDT #8902 of 30000
brillig

I'm watching/listening to the lectures as I work. The lectures have a transcript scrolling down the side, so I can read ahead to get the gist, then keep half an ear and eye on the actual lecture. It helps that this is not brand new information I'm trying to acquire. I couldn't do this with a hard science subject.


Juliebird - Oct 13, 2013 3:14:17 pm PDT #8903 of 30000
I am the fly who dreams of the spider

I did what I always swore I wouldn't: swerve for an animal. It wasn't too bad, I slowed and just nudged over into the shoulder a bit and just barely missed the raccoon. The car behind me did a bit worse, swerving clear into the other lane. If there had been a car oncoming, that would have been exactly why I tell myself just to hit the poor bastards trying to cross the road.