Now, I can hold a note for a long time...actually I can hold a note forever. But eventually that's just noise. It's the change we're listening for. The note coming after, and the one after that. That's what makes it music.

Host ,'Why We Fight'


Natter 74: Ready or Not  

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 - Sep 14, 2015 3:58:36 am PDT #5324 of 30003
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I take it all back about what you need in what temperature! I forgot! When I left the house this morning, it was 57F/14C, and bare legs were fine, and I didn't want my sweater in the sun.

Pumpkin spice burger sounds not dissimilar from tourtière, French-Canadian pork pie with cinnamon and clove, which is delicious!


Jesse - Sep 14, 2015 3:59:08 am PDT #5325 of 30003
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Good luck with everything, Liese! Transition is hard.


Laura - Sep 14, 2015 4:26:34 am PDT #5326 of 30003
Our wings are not tired.

Moving ~ma of all sorts, Liese family.


Steph L. - Sep 14, 2015 5:01:41 am PDT #5327 of 30003
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

Moving ~ma to Liese's family and surgery ~ma to Typo.

My boss is having me help out (should I say "mentor"? is that better business jargon? I could put that shit on my resume) a new freelance editor, and I just want to drink my coffee and get my work done, not talk on the phone with a stranger. I am flattered that she trusts my skills/experience enough to ask me to do this, but dang, I hate talking to strangers, on the phone or otherwise.


Fred Pete - Sep 14, 2015 5:09:44 am PDT #5328 of 30003
Ann, that's a ferret.

Eventful weekend! Congrats and ~mas, as needed.


Matt the Bruins fan - Sep 14, 2015 5:47:15 am PDT #5329 of 30003
"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

Pumpkin spice burger sounds not dissimilar from tourtière, French-Canadian pork pie with cinnamon and clove, which is delicious!

Pork works a lot better with sweet-ish seasonings than beef, in my experience. Back in my college World Lit class several students worked together to serve a medieval meal as their final project, and the entree was bruet sarcens—beef with some kind of spiced sugary glaze. Keeping a smile on my face as I choked it down may have been the best acting I've ever done.


Connie Neil - Sep 14, 2015 5:54:39 am PDT #5330 of 30003
brillig

My boss is having me help out (should I say "mentor"? is that better business jargon? I could put that shit on my resume) a new freelance editor,

Well, I guess that means she thinks you're doing the job right.

edit: and yes, put that shit on a resume.


Zenkitty - Sep 14, 2015 6:04:28 am PDT #5331 of 30003
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.

What Connie said. Both of it.


Zenkitty - Sep 14, 2015 6:07:50 am PDT #5332 of 30003
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.

Moving ~ma for the family, Liese.

Y'all can have the pumpkin everything. I like pumpkin pie with Thanksgiving dinner and that does me for pumpkin for the year. When did this madness begin, marketing pumpkin everything in the fall? I don't remember it before a few years ago.


Steph L. - Sep 14, 2015 6:39:50 am PDT #5333 of 30003
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

When did this madness begin, marketing pumpkin everything in the fall? I don't remember it before a few years ago.

I think it was only 3-5 years ago. I just legit love pumpkin-flavored stuff. For most of my life I never ate it, including pumpkin pie. And then I ate either pumpkin ice cream or pumpkin pie some time in my 30s and realized what I had been missing, and the pumpkin beast was unleashed in my belly.