Hmph. I had to park in the gravel lot down the street—no spaces on the street on my block or in the pay lot beside my building. Still, irritation somewhat mitigated by being filled to the brim with yummy teppanyaki steak and scallops.
Wow, you've really mastered the power of positive giving-up.
Cordelia ,'End of Days'
Natter 56: ...we need the writers.
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.
Matt the Bruins fan - Jan 19, 2008 4:24:40 pm PST #4227 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
aurelia - Jan 19, 2008 5:50:36 pm PST #4228 of 10001
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
2° F. I'm so glad I was able to stay in today.
Tomorrow I'm supposed to be at Navy Pier and get off work after buses stop running. I get to choose between spending a couple hours wages on parking or braving the anticipated wind chill of 20°-30° below for a 20ish minute hike to the train.
DebetEsse - Jan 19, 2008 5:53:16 pm PST #4229 of 10001
Woe to the fucking wicked.
I have have 4 more degrees than you! Somehow, that doesn't make me feel much better.
Boo transportation issues.
brenda m - Jan 19, 2008 5:54:10 pm PST #4230 of 10001
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
Taxi to the train, aurelia?
Laga - Jan 19, 2008 5:58:17 pm PST #4231 of 10001
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
I second taxi 'cause that's not the safest walk at that hour.
Ginger - Jan 19, 2008 6:13:25 pm PST #4232 of 10001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Trudy Booth - Jan 19, 2008 6:14:13 pm PST #4233 of 10001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
I have lots of degrees! 35 of them! But its windy as shit and the dog seems to thing she should get to go outside all the time.
sarameg - Jan 19, 2008 6:19:04 pm PST #4234 of 10001
My brother caught a little snow. Nothing as bad as we did, though. But it is Birmingham and they are even less prepped than here.
What did he send me pix of? One of D on the deckin wee snow and..one of his 3 turbos. Snork.
Kathy A - Jan 19, 2008 6:42:30 pm PST #4235 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
I knew that, with the cold, the bookstore today would be either deader than dead or busier than hell. I got both. We were deader than dead until 11:15, and then just swamped until I left at 5:00.
Why? Why did all of those people venture forth from their toasty warm houses into twenty below windchills? Why did they all want me to wrap their books? Why?
aurelia - Jan 19, 2008 7:24:10 pm PST #4236 of 10001
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
I'm thinking I may as well drive and eat the parking cost. On the plus side, I'll get home much faster.
Kathy, I have no answers to those questions. I could see how coffee and books seemed like a more immediate cozy (than home) from the vantage point of the parking lot. But why they ventured out in the first place? Who knows.