Yesterday, one of the headlines on Yahoo said "IAEA to help in Iran Crisis" which I thought read "Ikea to help in Iran Crisis" and wondered what the hell they were going to do.
Send laminate bookshelves to EVERYONE!
I've really got to learn to just do the damage and get out of town. It's the 'stay and gloat' that gets me every time.
Ethan Rayne ,'Potential'
Natter 37: Oddly Enough, We've Had This Conversation Before.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Kat - Aug 10, 2005 11:02:46 am PDT #7023 of 10002
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Frankenbuddha - Aug 10, 2005 11:03:52 am PDT #7024 of 10002
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Send laminate bookshelves to EVERYONE!
And meatballs!
Jesse - Aug 10, 2005 11:04:45 am PDT #7025 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Yesterday, one of the headlines on Yahoo said "IAEA to help in Iran Crisis" which I thought read "Ikea to help in Iran Crisis" and wondered what the hell they were going to do.
What they really need over there is some affordably-priced yet stylish furniture!
Anyway, I mostly need help with, like, how to start the email. Because I'm thinking maybe not, "Yo, professor lady! 'Sup with the prerequisites? Level with me here, I do not need calc three to learn about how many cultures knew the Pythagorean Theorem before the rise of Greece, right? Cut me some slack, Jack."
"Dear Dr. X: I am extremely interested in the History of Math course you are teaching this fall, and am wondering if there is any flexibility with the prerequisites. I have taken Calc 2 and linear algebra and [blah blah love math or something], so I just wanted to check with you to see if there was any way for me to get into your class. I plan on being a math teacher blah blah...."
Like that. It doesn't have to be all that formal, just slightly smarty-pants and love-of-learning-ish.
§ ita § - Aug 10, 2005 11:04:49 am PDT #7026 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I imagine some of the rage is coming from people who have as little, or less, and consider it right that they pull themselves up by their bootstraps. And other portions of it from the unwanted attention cash-for-fic could bring.
I think that if people ask for money and get it, power to them. The problem is in how large a shadow that request throws.
There were some loose goats in my neighborhood a few days ago.
Where are they now?
Roland, huh?
Gudanov - Aug 10, 2005 11:04:56 am PDT #7027 of 10002
Coding and Sleeping
Yesterday, one of the headlines on Yahoo said "IAEA to help in Iran Crisis" which I thought read "Ikea to help in Iran Crisis"
Sadly, IKEA might be able to handle reconstruction better.
Gudanov - Aug 10, 2005 11:05:34 am PDT #7028 of 10002
Coding and Sleeping
Where are they now?
I think the people who owned the goats rounded them up.
Nora Deirdre - Aug 10, 2005 11:06:12 am PDT #7029 of 10002
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)
Sadly, IKEA might be able to handle reconstruction better.
"Everything you need for reconstruciton will be in this series of flat packs... everyone got their allen wrenches?"
Jesse - Aug 10, 2005 11:06:23 am PDT #7030 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I imagine some of the rage is coming from people who have as little, or less, and consider it right that they pull themselves up by their bootstraps.
Really, who wouldn't rather get free money, as opposed to working some crappy temp job?
brenda m - Aug 10, 2005 11:06:54 am PDT #7031 of 10002
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Send laminate bookshelves to EVERYONE!
By the time they get them set up, they'll have no energy left to build a nuclear arsenal. It's a perfect plan!
Kat - Aug 10, 2005 11:08:03 am PDT #7032 of 10002
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
I think that if people ask for money and get it, power to them.
There's definitely this aspect. She's possibly something (insert word of your choice here) for asking. And in some ways, she is no worse than the utne woman who got people to collect for a new computer for her.