So a student whose dissertation committee I was on sent me a lovely note and crocheted a SCARF! No one has crocheted anything for me since I was a baby.
I am all up in my feelings and had to blow my nose.
Angel: Will you just shut up for once?! Illyria: What? Angel: My God, the speechifying. Has it ever occurred to you that now might not be the best time for when-we-were-muck stories?
'Time Bomb'
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.
le nubian - Oct 22, 2013 1:58:30 pm PDT #9784 of 30000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
le nubian - Oct 22, 2013 2:00:08 pm PDT #9785 of 30000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
okay (doing some catch up):
Jessica, thanks for the mount link. I think I'm going to look into that.
Ginger - Oct 22, 2013 2:04:25 pm PDT #9786 of 30000
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Dear Lilah, Dear Lilah.....
There's a hole in the freezer, dear Lilah, a hole.
Yay for the student who knows how to appreciate le nubian.
Jesse - Oct 22, 2013 2:04:28 pm PDT #9787 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Aw, that's sweet, le n.
Dana - Oct 22, 2013 2:05:03 pm PDT #9788 of 30000
I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."
There's a hole in the freezer?
Dear Liza, dear Liza.
I think it's there to drain any moisture from defrosting.
Edit: Damn, I was way late on that one.
Juliebird - Oct 22, 2013 2:06:37 pm PDT #9789 of 30000
I am the fly who dreams of the spider
It's budget season, and we're putting in a seasonal position. We've always offered 11 an hour, but I want it to be 12. It's always been 11, and we always gotten lackluster results. I don't know if its because of the pay or that our job description was too broad. Like, either we'd get better play if we actually had standards, or if we offered better pay, we'd get better applicants. Thoughts?
Connie Neil - Oct 22, 2013 2:15:44 pm PDT #9790 of 30000
brillig
I so want to Like the hole/liza exchange.
le nubian - Oct 22, 2013 2:22:49 pm PDT #9791 of 30000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
did you hear about the groom who called in a bomb scare because he found the forms to reserve the venue too confusing?
he was arrested, of course.
This sounds like a Seinfeld episode.
-t - Oct 22, 2013 2:30:24 pm PDT #9792 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
b) framing services
Of those I've only used Aaron Bros. Seemed fine, I didn't shop around. My default framer is Cheap Pete's, but they are Bay Area local, I think.
he was arrested, of course.
I think because of the Dear Liza above, that's putting me in an "old woman who swallowed a fly" frame of mine...
So you don't want to mend the hole in the freezer, is what you all are saying?
Consuela - Oct 22, 2013 2:31:39 pm PDT #9793 of 30000
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Pros of moving to Portland: more/better house in a better neighborhood for less money. Less crime. Less traffic. An hour to the mountains instead of 3. More distinct seasons. Bicycling. Smaller city. Greenness! Powell's.
Cons of moving to Portland: no thrice-weekly runs with my sister. Handing off to my sister the full burden of dealing with our father. No living one mile from sister and one hour from youngest brother, with regular get-togethers. No weekly dinner & tv with local fans. No established local professional network. No monthly book club with people I've known for 14 years. Harder to fly to other parts of the country.
... Yeah. While I know I could build a new network in Portland, and I do have some old friends there, I suspect moving to Portland would be both selfish and a net loss in terms of sociability. My family is fully half of my social network, and not seeing them for a month or more at a time would be really hard.