Good luck. Try not to kill people. Hands! Hands!

Willow ,'Storyteller'


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.


shrift - Apr 15, 2015 12:17:30 pm PDT #24575 of 30000
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty

I signed up for a bunch of online courses and almost all of them are starting this week. I already unenrolled from one because if I don't want to do a course that requires discussion as part of the grade. If I wanted to interact with people, I'd enroll in an actual university class.

The statistics class is aimed at people who fear statistics and it promises to relate everything to daily life, so I need to run through some modules before I'll decide to stick with it.


Matt the Bruins fan - Apr 15, 2015 1:18:52 pm PDT #24576 of 30000
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand

Dear co-worker, leaving everything to the last minute as standard operating procedure will eventually bite you on the ass when you need more than a minute to get everything done. Exhibit A: Today's profanity-filled mad scramble to get taxes turned in in the midst of a work deadline crunch when you've taken a couple of days off in the past week and could have devoted an hour or two out of either to finishing up your return.


P.M. Marc - Apr 15, 2015 3:12:59 pm PDT #24577 of 30000
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear

Working at home. Someone convince me to change out of the clothes I wore yesterday and might have slept in.


-t - Apr 15, 2015 3:15:34 pm PDT #24578 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

I have no argument for that.

Oh, hey, I randomly have good eggs. What on earth am I going to do with those?


Sheryl - Apr 15, 2015 3:23:36 pm PDT #24579 of 30000
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"

Timelies all!

Heading to Toronto tomorrow for FilKOntario. It's the 25th anniversary con, so it's a day longer.


Liese S. - Apr 15, 2015 3:42:31 pm PDT #24580 of 30000
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

Half an hour to the nearest grocery, and that's an upgrade from the forty-five minutes it was where we lived last. However, we do have an honest-to-goodness general store where you can buy staples and Schwans ice cream and tire chains and fishing bait and WD-40 and whatnot.

We just started that Vox anti-detox diet again that Pix recommended sometime back. So far so yum, although I am now impatiently waiting for the SO to get home from coffee and baseball so I can have the dinner.

Also, I would like to note here, amongst my peeeeple, how irrationally irritated I am that TurboTax uses the incorrect "Alright" in its attempt at colloquial phrasing.


Steph L. - Apr 15, 2015 3:42:38 pm PDT #24581 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

Working at home. Someone convince me to change out of the clothes I wore yesterday and might have slept in.

I work from home every day. This sounds like every day to me.


-t - Apr 15, 2015 3:54:01 pm PDT #24582 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

It's a fine line between idiomatic and incorrect, tax preparation software walks it at great peril.


sarameg - Apr 15, 2015 4:11:08 pm PDT #24583 of 30000

Aw, one of my coworkers is on NOVA. Mario Livio, one of my favorite work science-explainers. And not just for his accent. He's got a fascinating bio and is a really engaging speaker. [link] I never miss one of his talks.


Jesse - Apr 15, 2015 4:12:19 pm PDT #24584 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

OMG, I can't believe that's finally on! I was trying to raise money for that show 2+ years ago.