Oh! Here's the most amazing thing I learned over the weekend: The illustrator of Harry the Dirty Dog [link] (among many others) is in the same unit as my father at the nursing home!
Cordelia: I get it now. You're all spies. Probably all Russian. And you've brainwashed me, and want me to believe we're friends so I'll spill the beans about some nano-technology thingy that you want. Gunn: So I look Russian to you? Cordelia: Black Russian. Angel: That's a drink.
'Hell Bound'
Natter 73: Chuck Norris only wishes he could Natter
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Jesse - Nov 17, 2014 9:49:36 am PST #10654 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Amy - Nov 17, 2014 10:05:10 am PST #10655 of 30000
Because books.
Harry the Dirty Dog! Those books were huge favorites of mine, and my kids! Aw.
Congratulations on the grant, too, Jesse, although it not getting the rest of the week off isn't as great.
-t - Nov 17, 2014 10:21:13 am PST #10656 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Aw. Be Nice to Spiders, I remember that one.
Calli - Nov 17, 2014 10:21:25 am PST #10657 of 30000
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Congrats on the grant, Jesse!
Jesse - Nov 17, 2014 10:31:16 am PST #10658 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Thanks, y'all!
-t - Nov 17, 2014 10:34:12 am PST #10659 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Congrats on the grant. You should totally be able to take the rest of the week off.
I have officially declined the Thanksgiving potluck for this Friday. I don't understand why people want to do this, I have enough cooking and eating to do for actual Thanksgiving I don't need a feast at work, too.
Burrell - Nov 17, 2014 11:18:19 am PST #10660 of 30000
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
"Protect the 40 hour work week" is officially Orwellian double speak, right up there with "right to work" laws that actually protect the right to fire without cause.
Connie Neil - Nov 17, 2014 11:25:40 am PST #10661 of 30000
brillig
"Protect the 40 hour work week"
Fight those Socialist schemes to make you work less! You know who works a shorter week? Europeans! And we know they can't compete against sturdy American workers who know what it is to put their nose to the grindstone!
-t - Nov 17, 2014 11:35:34 am PST #10662 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
"Protect the 40 hour work week" is officially Orwellian double speak, right up there with "right to work" laws that actually protect the right to fire without cause.
Yup. Double plus ungood.
Zenkitty - Nov 17, 2014 11:37:24 am PST #10663 of 30000
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
People who know plants: what do I do with these patio plants now that it's winter? After two freezes, the petunia and the...I think it's a geranium, seem to be dead, but the snapdragon is alive, and unaccountably the mums or daisies seem to be hanging in there. But it's going to freeze the next few nights and none of them are going to survive that. I can't bring them inside because of the cats, and I have no shed or other protected space for them. I didn't think this through when I bought them, obviously. I don't even know what to do with the dead ones, since I don't have a composter.