I feel like Boston is the land of giving directions by what used to be there -- to the point that when I first moved back, literally before I got into my new apartment, I had to ask a stranger for directions, and they started with "By where Planet Hollywood used to be" (or maybe it was the Hard Rock Cafe? Now I forget...).
Take jobs as they come -- and we'll never be under the heel of nobody ever again. No matter how long the arm of the Alliance might get, we'll just get ourselves a little further.
Mal ,'Out Of Gas'
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 - Apr 29, 2015 5:04:58 am PDT #25399 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
tommyrot - Apr 29, 2015 5:30:29 am PDT #25400 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
My mom used to commute on Amtrak and knew the conductors and engineers. It really, really fucks them up. Suicide, sure, but from their end they killed someone, and often saw it coming but couldn't stop it. Awful.
Yeah, it fucks up the engineers on Metra trains too.
The previous head of Metra killed himself by jumping in front of a Metra train. Bad management on his part, subjecting his employees to that trauma.
-t - Apr 29, 2015 5:33:38 am PDT #25401 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Oh, wow, that's terrible. If you put something like that in a novel it would be called too far-fetched.
billytea - Apr 29, 2015 5:55:32 am PDT #25402 of 30000
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
My mom used to commute on Amtrak and knew the conductors and engineers. It really, really fucks them up. Suicide, sure, but from their end they killed someone, and often saw it coming but couldn't stop it. Awful.
There was a woman, in Sydney I think, who committed suicide by standing in front of a train in her wedding dress after the engagement fell through. That messed the driver up badly.
tommyrot - Apr 29, 2015 6:22:54 am PDT #25403 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Damn.
Maria - Apr 29, 2015 6:27:03 am PDT #25404 of 30000
Not so nice is that I'm about to ruin a Friday morning for a bunch of people because of a series of unfortunate events and an upset foreign government. - shrift
Oh lisah, I'm sorry. For all of it.
I can say this here without being flayed: I am so utterly disappointed in people I considered friends. A good portion of my FB feed is hate-filled, lacking empathy, and calling the protesters (violent and non-violent) animals. It's made me cry more than once over the last few days. I really wonder why I moved back to such a hate-filled area.
shrift - Apr 29, 2015 7:09:15 am PDT #25405 of 30000
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
I need to make donations today. This is my reminder.
I needed that reminder, too.
Have you checked the F2F thread, btw? We're trying to make dinner plans for tomorrow.
Lee - Apr 29, 2015 7:33:42 am PDT #25406 of 30000
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
I made my Baltimore donations last night, but waited on Nepal because I figured the firm would organize something matching the donations, which they just did, so now I need to do that.
meara - Apr 29, 2015 8:01:06 am PDT #25407 of 30000
Oh, dang, Maria. That's so hard. Because most of my friends in B'more are drag king queers, often with super super lefty/anarchist/abolish jails political views, my facebook has thankfully almost entirely been an echo chamber of "it's not like that an even if it is there's reasons dammit!" Which I am thankful for.
brenda m - Apr 29, 2015 8:03:33 am PDT #25408 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
Yes. Though there are a couple of people on my FB that I'm actively hoping will not comment.
I'm sorry for what you're having to deal with Maria.