I also remember really being surprised when my hardcore history professor, who actually docked you a plus or minus on your final grade for any absence for any reason without a doctor's note let things slide when I missed class because the brakes failed on my car and I almost got into an accident and was towed to a car shop. I was trying to get the car shop people to drive me to class, and I called the professor and he told me not to worry about it!
I am not...I am not the damsel in distress. I am not some case. I have to work this. I've lived in a cave for 5 years in a world where they killed my kind like cattle. I am not going to be cut down by some monster flu. I am better than that. What a wonder...how very scared I am.
Fred ,'A Hole in the World'
Natter 52: Playing with a full deck?
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.
Sophia Brooks - Jul 06, 2007 9:48:59 am PDT #6735 of 10001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
lisah - Jul 06, 2007 9:54:22 am PDT #6736 of 10001
Punishingly Intricate
This is pathetic, but I really want to go into the Barnes & Noble in Pasadena and just stare at the book.
Seriously don't know how you've restrained yourself this long!
I had the largest, most delicious salad in all of Christendom for lunch. From the Whole Foods that I walked to! Along the waterfront. Nice!
My boyfriend in college was the worst for scamming his way into extensions and such. It wasn't so much an entitlement thing as a working the system thing.
Ailleann - Jul 06, 2007 9:56:38 am PDT #6737 of 10001
vanguard of the socialist Hollywood liberal homosexualist agenda
Um, if I had a book out, I'd be very tempted to take a picture of it the first place I saw it shelved for sale.
Dude, I had thought about taking a picture when I went in to pick up my copy tonight!
A little staring would NOT be out of place, paperdol.
Frankenbuddha - Jul 06, 2007 9:57:27 am PDT #6738 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Grrr. The BU Barnes and Noble doesn't let you search for any books but textbooks. I get a discount there, but I don't necessarily want to haul myself all the way to Kenmore Square. The Pru has it, and it's a bit closer to work.
(I've also ordered it via the Amazon affiliate link, but that copy can be gifted)
juliana - Jul 06, 2007 10:00:01 am PDT #6739 of 10001
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
Le woot! The B&N at Fisherman's Wharf has it. I shall go there tonight and talk excitedly about it, thereby drawing the interest of tourists (who actually pay attention to random excited people). Emily, would you care to join me?
§ ita § - Jul 06, 2007 10:05:22 am PDT #6740 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
when you work in a field that is largely used as a synonym for amazingness and smartness and best of the best?
It's not used as a synonym for the clueful, though. I am trying to imagine Paperdol's reaction if you said "No, babysit them more" about her old gig.
Hmm. I wonder if the Borders near here has a copy. And there's a B&N nearer home I need to check out too.
SuziQ - Jul 06, 2007 10:06:16 am PDT #6741 of 10001
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame
What time are you going juliana? I'm going to be SF bound this evening...
§ ita § - Jul 06, 2007 10:07:09 am PDT #6742 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I was gonna go to Literary, but fuck it. I looked the book up on B&N, and noticed this:
B&N Customers Who Bought This Book Also Bought
I Feel Bad about My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman
Nora Ephron
Me Talk Pretty One Day
David Sedaris, Terry Adams
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim: Essays
David Sedaris
Yeah, I Said It
Malaika Adero, Wanda Sykes
The Areas of My Expertise
John Hodgman
amych - Jul 06, 2007 10:07:53 am PDT #6743 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
The one thing I did in college which was sort of entitled was look at all my assignments ahead of time, and sometimes asked my non-theatre professors to cut me a break during tech week if the assignment could not for some reason be completed ahead of time.
That's not entitled -- that's time management, and advance planning, and being all responsible and shit. Entitled is asking for the break after the fact, or because you have a date that night and don't feel like it.
sumi - Jul 06, 2007 10:11:19 am PDT #6744 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
Or NOT asking and expecting it to be okay.
Wimbledon: Wow. You know, I don't think I've ever seen Gasquet play before. At least he gets to wait 'til Noon to play Federer. It should be a good match. And I also hope that Djokovic is nicely rested for his match with Nadal.