Yay, Callaluna! I saw on FB. Awesome!!! Luna is so adorbs.
Oh, Plei. idek.
Ten percent of nothing is -- let me do the math here -- nothing into nothing, carry the --
Jayne ,'Serenity'
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.
amyth - Jan 27, 2015 7:40:48 am PST #17209 of 30000
And none of us deserving the cruelty or the grace -- Leonard Cohen
Kiba Rika - Jan 27, 2015 7:42:11 am PST #17210 of 30000
I may have to seize the cat.
Also, "resolution" of the GRE debacle: I have to take the GRE again. Signed up to take it a week from today. Did a practice test and got 93rd percentile verbal and 56th percentile math, so I'm not too worried. Mostly just annoyed.
SailAweigh - Jan 27, 2015 7:47:37 am PST #17211 of 30000
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
And the interesting thing there is that so many schools are starting to realize the GRE is essentially meaningless. A good number of our grad programs don't require it here and we're a pretty big institution (UW-Madison.)
-t - Jan 27, 2015 7:55:48 am PST #17212 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Sorry you have to take the GRE again, Kiba, but glad you are not worried about it.
Allyson - Jan 27, 2015 7:57:13 am PST #17213 of 30000
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
I can't tell you how pleased I am when acquaintances call me Allie.
Kiba Rika - Jan 27, 2015 8:03:40 am PST #17214 of 30000
I may have to seize the cat.
the GRE is essentially meaningless.The GRE tests how good you are at taking the GRE. Not so much how good you'll be in graduate school. My one frustration is the writing section. I feel like I better do well on it, but my application included a writing sample from my award-winning Master's thesis. And honestly, the writing they have you do on the GRE is worlds apart from real academic writing. And yet I'm not comfortable just blowing it off. Le sigh.
Beverly - Jan 27, 2015 8:05:51 am PST #17215 of 30000
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
I had an aunt who called me Bevvie. I let her, since I loved her a lot. Mostly I insist on Beverly unless you know me outside of work.
There was this one VIP volunteer's secretary who retained the "her name has three syllables" concept, though she wasn't really consistent on which ones. Marilyn, Vivian, as long as it started with a consonant and the accent was on the first syllable, she tried it. As her boss was responsible for a good deal of our fundraising, I answered to her, and did my best to find it amusing.
msbelle - Jan 27, 2015 8:18:22 am PST #17216 of 30000
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
But BevDOG is ok, right?
Oh Allyson, no. You are not an Allie.
What is wrong with people? Use the names we tell you.
bon bon - Jan 27, 2015 8:19:12 am PST #17217 of 30000
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
Everyone at the office knew who I was until my doppelgänger arrived two years later: a blond, blue-eyed former college quarterback from North Dakota. Then, people started calling me Shane, because hey, how can you tell us apart?!
JZ - Jan 27, 2015 8:19:41 am PST #17218 of 30000
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
I... cannot even put Tom-Scola-the-person and Tommy-the-name in the same mental space. Not even adjacent. You are so blazingly, obviously nothing like Tommy, in much the same way that Rebecca is so clearly not a Becky. If anyone called either of you by either of those names in my presence, I'd have to check the person for a fever or sudden cataracts, because nothing but physiologic impairment could possibly explain it.
I am so sick and tired of people who use a computer program for their livelihood and who think not knowing how to use a computer is something to be proud of.
I am now tempted to learn everything about programming just so I can hack into the board and create a "like" button JUST FOR THIS SENTENCE. Relatedly, a FB-friend-of-a-FB-friend noted yesterday that "I canceled Facebook years ago" is the 2015 version of "Oh, I don't even own a TV" and is just as likely to make even the hearers/readers who agree with the speaker wish to administer a swift throatpunch.
{{{Plei}}} (is there punctuation to indicate hairpats? Because oh-your-family empathy somehow seems better expressed via hairpats, plus Plei's hair is very pattable.)