Suzi, I am so sorry for your loss. Much love to you and your family.
So, how was your summer? Mine was fun. Saw some fish. Went mad with hunger. Hallucinated a whole bunch.
Angel ,'Conviction (1)'
Spike's Bitches 44: It's about the rules having changed.
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
d - Jun 04, 2009 1:44:20 pm PDT #11878 of 30000
It's nice to see some brave pretenders trying to make it interesting.
Zenkitty - Jun 04, 2009 1:55:56 pm PDT #11879 of 30000
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
I'm so sorry, Suzi.
Hil R. - Jun 04, 2009 3:14:18 pm PDT #11880 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
I'm so sorry, Suzi.
SailAweigh - Jun 04, 2009 3:19:08 pm PDT #11881 of 30000
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
{{Suzi}}
Hil R. - Jun 04, 2009 3:20:54 pm PDT #11882 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Why did I get into a discussion about abortion with my officemate today? I know that he disagrees with me and that these discussions just get me aggravated, so I've made a conscious decision that, even though we pretty frequently comment on or discuss whatever's in the news, I will not start a conversation with him on anything involving abortion, because it just will not end well. Today, out of nowhere, he brought up Dr. Tiller's murder. I ended the conversation after his third "ewwww." (Which, interestingly, was in response to what I thought was a relatively innocuous comment that didn't really have much to do with abortion.)
Barb - Jun 04, 2009 3:27:21 pm PDT #11883 of 30000
“Not dead yet!”
"Ewwwww?"
Is he twelve, Hil?
Hil R. - Jun 04, 2009 3:40:22 pm PDT #11884 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
That last "ewwww," where I ended the conversation, was in response to a comment that I'd made, kind of on a tangent we'd gone off on (possible trigger warning here for the rest of this paragraph, I guess), that when a baby is stillborn, a lot of parents want to have the baby cleaned up and wrapped in a blanket so that they can hold and look at him or her, and say their goodbyes. I'd had no idea that would inspire that sort of reaction.
§ ita § - Jun 04, 2009 3:50:34 pm PDT #11885 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Sounds similar to some people's aversion to open casket funerals.
Barb - Jun 04, 2009 3:59:09 pm PDT #11886 of 30000
“Not dead yet!”
But it's true. Some parents want and/or need that closure. And to go "ewwww," seems not only immature but utterly disrespectful. What an ass.
§ ita § - Jun 04, 2009 4:02:42 pm PDT #11887 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I don't have any problem with the practice, but corpses are visceral for many people, so that's not something I judge him harshly on.