Timelies all!
We got back last night.(around 9) Still adjusting to the time change. Mr. S was difficult a lot this trip. Thank goodness for licensed child care at the con.
Raise your hand if 'ew.'
Buffy ,'Same Time, Same Place'
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.
Sheryl - Aug 22, 2018 1:51:16 pm PDT #28694 of 30002
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"
Sue - Aug 22, 2018 1:54:18 pm PDT #28695 of 30002
hip deep in pie
So this week has been wild. After saying the battery needed to be replaced in my dad's pacemaker/defibrillator before my dad could have the gall bladder out, the cardiologist has now decided that his heart had stabilized enough to go on with the surgery and that the pacemaker had enough juice to last for a couple of months. So my dad's scheduled (again) for gall bladder surgery tomorrow. All this backing and forthing makes me wonder about the doctor's judgement, but the surgeon is apparently very cautious and agrees with the cardiologist. So that's something. Anyway please send some surgery_ma my dad's way tomorrow.
-t - Aug 22, 2018 2:29:19 pm PDT #28696 of 30002
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Goodness, Sue. Surgery~ma, for sure.
Sophia Brooks - Aug 22, 2018 3:15:29 pm PDT #28697 of 30002
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
Wow, Sue- surgery ~ma for your dad!
Happy Birthday Son of Laura!
I hate that "To Build a Fire" story. I feel like all we ever read in high school were short stories by Jack London, Ernest Hemingway, John Steinbeck and Bret Harte. All of which I hate. But I did like "For Whom the Bell Tolls" (Hemingway) and "The People of the Abyss" (London) so maybe I just hate short stories? But even though I didn't have the term at the time, my whole high school English curriculum made me annoyed at "blah blah blah manpain" And yet, still, I was an English Major. But seriously, both the Old Man and the Sea and The Pearl made me want to shoot myself in the head!
Sheryl - Aug 22, 2018 3:24:02 pm PDT #28698 of 30002
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"
Surgery~ma for your dad, Sue.
Sue - Aug 22, 2018 4:30:20 pm PDT #28699 of 30002
hip deep in pie
Thanks everyone.
Sophia, I hate The Pearl too, That and Lord of the Flies, the only assigned book in HS that I refused to finish.
Calli - Aug 22, 2018 4:38:05 pm PDT #28700 of 30002
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Surgery~ma for your dad, Sue.
My high school definitely hammered home the idea that Great Literature had to be depressing. I'm glad I found Wilde and Donne on my own, or I might have thought I hated English, in spite of spending every spare hour with my nose in a book.
-t - Aug 22, 2018 5:33:58 pm PDT #28701 of 30002
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I like Steinbeck, but mostly for Cannery Row, Sweet Thursday and Tortilla Flats. And his version of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table. I think I like Bret Harte, but I don't remember why. And I might like stories about Jack London more than Jack London stories. I didn't hate Old Man and the Sea, but I have no fondness for Hemingway.
-t - Aug 22, 2018 5:38:48 pm PDT #28702 of 30002
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
The thing I liked in To Build a Fire is the bit where he gauges the temperature by whether his spit freezes before or after it hits the ground.
aurelia - Aug 22, 2018 6:02:16 pm PDT #28703 of 30002
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
I also hated The Pearl.
Surgery~ma for your dad, Sue.