Another problem: I keep waking up and the internet is not coming up with enough to entertain me but I am too out of it to read. Will need to figure this out...
Angel: Will you just shut up for once?! Illyria: What? Angel: My God, the speechifying. Has it ever occurred to you that now might not be the best time for when-we-were-muck stories?
'Time Bomb'
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.
meara - Oct 13, 2018 4:26:42 am PDT #727 of 30019
Calli - Oct 13, 2018 4:39:53 am PDT #728 of 30019
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
It's nice when HS people turn out to be copacetic. So often it goes the other way.
I'm all a-squee about my Helsinki trip! I'm driving up to spend the night with my BFF, and the next day we head to the airport. So excited! I'll be meeting some 3rd cousin or other for a day, and checking out things with my BFF for another day. But otherwise, it's all me exploring a new-to-me European city. I'm looking forward to coffee in little cafés by the harbor, museums, cloudberry liquor-based drinks, all kinds of niftyness. Has anyone else been? Any recommendations?
WindSparrow - Oct 13, 2018 4:51:01 am PDT #729 of 30019
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.
On the happier making news, it is on the facebook of someone I barely knew in HS who friended me. I debated, because I didn't know him too well- he was quiet and we ran in different circles. He is a joy! So smart and politically astute, so I am glad I did it.
I have a HS friend I rediscovered on Facebook, kinda like that - someone I was acquainted with, who was a friend of a friend, I don't think we ever said more than two words to each other back then. Found old friend on Fb, she's there in his comments, we actually have conversations and we added each other on Fb, and I am soooooo glad. She could totally be a Buffista.
Calli, I have no useful Helsinki suggestions. But I am drooling with envy.
-t - Oct 13, 2018 4:59:58 am PDT #730 of 30019
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Have fun, Calli! That sounds fabulous
sj - Oct 13, 2018 5:14:13 am PDT #731 of 30019
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
We're off to a Halloween book festival today. We went last year and had a great time. I've been looking forward to it for months and a couple of my favorite authors will be there. So, of course, my brain is freaking out and panicking. I hate my brain sometimes.
meara - Oct 13, 2018 6:34:32 am PDT #732 of 30019
Super jealous of travels!! I had been idly contemplating some but I think that's out now.
bennett - Oct 13, 2018 7:00:17 am PDT #733 of 30019
Calli - be sure to visit the Russian cathedral in Helsinki It has some lovely medieval icons.
Also, take a day trip over to Tallin (sp?) which is supposed to be lovely - but be sure to wear good walking shoes. Lots of cobblestone streets.
(I was there once on a work trip and would like to go back)
Sheryl - Oct 13, 2018 10:48:31 am PDT #734 of 30019
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"
Timelies all!
It's a bit cooler here than it has been. Also, it's windy.
flea - Oct 13, 2018 10:52:41 am PDT #735 of 30019
information libertarian
I am trying to do the November schedule with us down 4 20-hour a week positions and 1 40-hour a week position and it is a total disaster. I have reached the point where I need to take a break or cry.
Not helping is my desire to use myself as the person making up the slack in the schedule which is not actually physically possible; stop it, flea.
Jesse - Oct 13, 2018 11:13:34 am PDT #736 of 30019
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Don't do it, flea.
Have a great trip, Calli!
meara, do you listen to podcasts? That might be a good option for semi-attentive times.