Saffron: But we've been wed. Aren't we to become one flesh? Mal: Well, no, uh... We're still two fleshes here, and I think that your flesh ought to sleep somewhere else.

'Our Mrs. Reynolds'


Natter 76: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Foaminess  

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 05, 2018 3:55:29 pm PST #1589 of 30019
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I admire that.


Sophia Brooks - Nov 05, 2018 4:10:20 pm PST #1590 of 30019
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

As a salaried empoylee who was once an hourly employee, I have been carrying over the max (5 weeks) for years, and losing some every year. When I moved to this department, I was carrying five weeks because of denied requests, and earning five weeks. I just sort of suck up the losing, because I have unlimited sick time, and I definately use that for "mental health days" where a vacation request would be too last minute. And mental health days are days I just can be a person at work


Amy - Nov 05, 2018 4:11:05 pm PST #1591 of 30019
Because books.

So tonight at work I took a call for Mountain View Mortuary, where they film a huge percent of cemetery scenes in Hollywood (because it's so gorgeous), and it was a guy calling from the reboot of Veronica Mars! It was very hard not to fangirl.


sarameg - Nov 05, 2018 4:47:40 pm PST #1592 of 30019

Just found out a coworker died. I don't need sympathy, it's just whoa. Used to see her all the time & casually chat about cats & houses & work bullshit, but then moved buildings & didn't see her much, though we talked Baltimore via fb fairly recently. Didn't even know she was sick. She only had a decade on me. Meh.


-t - Nov 05, 2018 5:06:41 pm PST #1593 of 30019
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Wow, Amy! Neat!

Sad, sarameg. Those deaths hit me differently than people I'm close to - like how many people that I used to see frequently but casually and don't anymore for whatever reason would I not even hear about if they died?


askye - Nov 05, 2018 5:25:48 pm PST #1594 of 30019
Thrive to spite them

The highlight of my day was getting to pet and cuddle a tiny kitten one of the managers is adopting. So adorable. I have kitten fever so bad. I don't want a child I want a kitten. I can't get one but I want one.

Rest of the day wasnt too bad . But when I finally got home mom's cat nearly knocked me over trying to get in the house and them Penny used that moment to dart out , a lot almost knocking me ovet


DavidS - Nov 05, 2018 6:34:04 pm PST #1595 of 30019
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Those deaths hit me differently than people I'm close to - like how many people that I used to see frequently but casually and don't anymore for whatever reason would I not even hear about if they died?

Yeah, I had three co-workers die and two of them were fairly young. One died in a car accident when she turned the wrong way onto a one-way street and a front loader rammed right into her. I think the blade rammed right through her windshield. What a weird way to go. Very Final Destination.


meara - Nov 05, 2018 7:20:51 pm PST #1596 of 30019

Sophia, don't let them do that to you!! Use your vacation girl!!

I usually carry over the max at my job but that's because I also like to take vacation early the next year and want to make sure I have enough.

Amy, I would fangirl super hard at that. I'm making my friends I'm staying with watch The Good Place, and I heart Kristen Bell so much.


Steph L. - Nov 06, 2018 3:22:00 am PST #1597 of 30019
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe

You guys, you know how much I love my brother. And he is scary smart. Which is why I am SO GODDAMN OVER his Libertarian anti-government nonsense. How can someone so smart say things like "I am not voting because I do not consent to being governed."?!?!?!? (That was this morning's Facebook post.)

I want to throttle him.


Jesse - Nov 06, 2018 3:40:03 am PST #1598 of 30019
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I would actually be interested to hear what he thinks that means. Like, does he pay taxes? Stop at red lights?