Um, Zen, for what it's worth, you could probably go to a wildlife refuge for the quiet without an armed takeover. Just putting that out there?
Hope surgery is going well, Dana!
Yes, it's terribly simple. The good guys are always stalwart and true, the bad guys are easily distinguished by their pointy horns or black hats, and, uh, we always defeat them and save the day. No one ever dies, and everybody lives happily ever after.
Giles ,'Conversations with Dead People'
Natter 75: More Than a Million Natters Served
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 - Nov 21, 2016 7:38:17 am PST #2585 of 30002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Zenkitty - Nov 21, 2016 7:47:24 am PST #2586 of 30002
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
Um, Zen, for what it's worth, you could probably go to a wildlife refuge for the quiet without an armed takeover.
Is that even legal?
Steph L. - Nov 21, 2016 9:54:03 am PST #2587 of 30002
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
New author ridiculousness:
Me: Please provide these data, with the numbers expressed to 2 decimal places PER JOURNAL POLICY.
Author: Do you really want these data?
Me: [looks into the camera like I'm on The Office]
(For real, that is the author's response verbatim.)
Steph L. - Nov 21, 2016 9:54:57 am PST #2588 of 30002
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
I now have to email the author back and say the equivalent of "When I requested those data, I WAS NOT KIDDING, YOU ASS. The fact that I requested the data should have clued you in to the fact that I NEED THE DATA." But, you know, more polite.
Connie Neil - Nov 21, 2016 10:08:06 am PST #2589 of 30002
brillig
I don't suppose you can phrase it "I'll tell you what I want, what I really really want."
aurelia - Nov 21, 2016 10:13:23 am PST #2590 of 30002
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
Connie FTW.
Have the last couple of weeks turned into an unplanned diet for anyone else? I'm wishing I'd worn a belt today.
Steph L. - Nov 21, 2016 10:22:17 am PST #2591 of 30002
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Have the last couple of weeks turned into an unplanned diet for anyone else?
Only the eating-my-feelings diet.
(This post sponsored by TJ's turkey-and-stuffing-flavored kettle chips.)
Jesse - Nov 21, 2016 10:22:42 am PST #2592 of 30002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Pretty sure I've eaten more candy in the last couple of weeks than in the previous ten years put together.
-t - Nov 21, 2016 10:28:13 am PST #2593 of 30002
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I have been eating a lot of candy.
For one thing, I found two bags of Halloween candy in the back of a cupboard that I probably bought on sale after Halloween 2015 and forgot about. They'd been through the heat of the summer and gotten all crumbly, so I stuck it in ziploc bags and tempered it with the sous vide process and somehow sampling to make sure it came out okay turned into eating all of it.
-t - Nov 21, 2016 10:38:54 am PST #2594 of 30002
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I'm having shrimp and grits for lunch, and I feel like I need to explain to someone that it is not Shrimp and Grits, it's just grits that I have topped with "barbecue" shrimp, Tasty, but I'm fairly sure not what Nora, for example, would expect.
I'm very pleased to have figured out a successful grits making strategy, btw. It is not something I have had in my skill set.