So that's my dream. That and some stuff about cigars and a tunnel.

Faith ,'Get It Done'


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.


Dana - Oct 11, 2015 9:01:18 am PDT #6846 of 30003
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

Football!

I'm home! Actually got to watch last week's Saints game on the ship, on the big outdoor screen on the pool deck. It was a very dramatic game, and actually pretty chilly with the wind going, but fun to be out with other fans when the Saints won in such dramatic fashion.

Today's game is not going quite so well.

Anyway! I swam with dolphins! I did this thing where you stick out your feet flat behind you and two dolphins push you with their noses and you rise up out of the water almost to vertical. It was crazy and surreal. We also got to spend a few minutes in a pen with manatees, who are hilariously chill and seem to do nothing other than float around and eat and possibly call each other "dude".

Anyway, laundry going, and apparently there's some fucking rule that I have to go back to work tomorrow.


sarameg - Oct 11, 2015 9:12:02 am PDT #6847 of 30003

The whole 'driving women from the field' is a frequent topic in the women in astro forums I follow, but then, of corse it would be there.

My floors are taking forever to dry. Still damp in spots and I finished almost an hr ago. It doesn't seem that humid. In fact, not humid at all.


Laura - Oct 11, 2015 9:17:29 am PDT #6848 of 30003
Our wings are not tired.

Later we'll go out to meet Gary's mom for dinner.(We did dinner with Gary's dad and stepmom last night.)

How are all the grandparents enjoying the new grandbaby?


Burrell - Oct 11, 2015 9:39:10 am PDT #6849 of 30003
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!

Wow, that is truly awesome Dana, in the original sense of the word.

I have scrubbed down the kitchen, now I need to go clean the bathroom too. Then mop. Then done.


Jesse - Oct 11, 2015 9:40:21 am PDT #6850 of 30003
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Anyway! I swam with dolphins! I did this thing where you stick out your feet flat behind you and two dolphins push you with their noises and you rise up out of the water almost to vertical. It was crazy and surreal.

That sounds incredible.

I am tuckered out! Too much fun this weekend, between dinner and karaoke Friday night, being out doing various things yesterday from 11am to 11pm, and just getting home from lunch out with my mother after going to church at 10. Now I need to plan out cooking, then grocery shop and cook, but I don't wanna. I guess I can plan, at least. Maybe I won't go to the office tomorrow after all. I can get some stuff done from here, I guess.


meara - Oct 11, 2015 9:57:30 am PDT #6851 of 30003

That's so cool Dana!

And letting women have equal opportunity in a field doesn't just mean less opportunities for men, the pay scale tends to plummet too. So there's really a huge financial disincentive for men to be feminists.

Yes...it's crazy. Dudes get paid more in male-dominated fields...and if they go into female-dominated fields they still make more than the women in that field!


-t - Oct 11, 2015 10:25:39 am PDT #6852 of 30003
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

That sounds wonderful, Dana! Now I want to chill with the manatees.


Dana - Oct 11, 2015 10:27:44 am PDT #6853 of 30003
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

They're all blorpy! The dolphins are race-car sleek, and then the manatee are soft and pouchy.


Dana - Oct 11, 2015 10:30:08 am PDT #6854 of 30003
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

Oh, and I forgot: I got kissed by a sea lion. It was fishy, yet adorable.


amyth - Oct 11, 2015 10:34:51 am PDT #6855 of 30003
And none of us deserving the cruelty or the grace -- Leonard Cohen

Wow, Dana! That all sounds amazing.