Wash: Captain, didn't you know kissin' girls makes you sleepy? Mal: Well sometimes I just can't help myself.

'Our Mrs. Reynolds'


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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 - Dec 01, 2009 8:30:23 am PST #22193 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

Is New Guy an employee or a contractor?


bon bon - Dec 01, 2009 8:32:40 am PST #22194 of 30001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.

Last night I sent a request through the Tonight Show website for tickets, because, why not? I just got a call *this morning* from a real live person following up on that because their system doesn't work with gmail? Weird. But it does work with hotmail?


§ ita § - Dec 01, 2009 8:41:53 am PST #22195 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Is New Guy an employee or a contractor?

Contractor, like me.

their system doesn't work with gmail?

Like, they can't send email to gmail? What's up with that? Having a system that can't work with gmail is shooting yourself in the foot.


Jesse - Dec 01, 2009 8:52:05 am PST #22196 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

That's bizarre.

I just listed my old dresser on craigslist, forgetting about the one piece that always falls off. So I'm trying to fix it, rather than edit the listing. Meh. (It's one of the pieces at the bottom, so once it's in place, it's fine.)


bon bon - Dec 01, 2009 8:52:25 am PST #22197 of 30001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.

Since the guy's English wasn't great, I didn't ask what that meant. Very odd.


Hil R. - Dec 01, 2009 8:57:28 am PST #22198 of 30001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

So. If you try to bake vegan cookies from a recipe, don't like the texture of the batter before baking and so add a bunch of flour and oil, then bake them and complain that they taste chalky and are too chewy, and write an article about how therefore vegan cookies are gross, you can get published in the Times! [link] (I very rarely actually stick to a recipe. But I wouldn't write a review of a cookbook based on my own modifications of the recipes.)

(Also, these are banana cookies. Of course the batter is going to be a weird consistency.)


Jessica - Dec 01, 2009 9:01:33 am PST #22199 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

I very rarely actually stick to a recipe. But I wouldn't write a review of a cookbook based on my own modifications of the recipes.

Especially if it's a *baking* recipe and my complaint was about texture. I mean, DUH.


bon bon - Dec 01, 2009 9:05:55 am PST #22200 of 30001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.

Just checked my hotmail, and I got the tickets. For five weeks from now, about. That was...really easy. LAistas, if you want to see Conan, take note!


§ ita § - Dec 01, 2009 9:07:05 am PST #22201 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Oh, god, that reminds me that my weird-eating sister is coming to stay with me for a few days. I guess we're going to eat pork the whole time. It's her only meat, and I'm pretty sure she doesn't do dairy. I think she does seafood, but I don't cook it in my apartment.


Hil R. - Dec 01, 2009 9:07:38 am PST #22202 of 30001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

I have a bunch of cookbooks by those cookbook authors, and pretty much everything I've tried has been good. Usually, with the baked stuff, my only complaint is that they use way too much sugar for my taste. (Well, OK, that was also the cookbook where I got the recipe for those cupcakes that exploded, but I think I figured out that was my fault.)