What time do you start?
This morning I was here at 6:55. Sigh.
Spike: Taking up smoking, are you? Harmony: I am a villain, Spike. Hello!
Spike/Harm ,'Help'
Natter 64: Yes, we still need you
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.
Dana - Dec 03, 2009 7:16:41 am PST #22627 of 30001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Zenkitty - Dec 03, 2009 7:19:58 am PST #22628 of 30001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
Holy giant mantis, Batman! ... We don't have to fight it, do we?
Has anyone else seen a really REALLY big praying mantis? The only ones I'd ever seen were the little normal ones, until this one time, in Kentucky, I went to pump gas and sitting on the pump was a mantis literally as long as my forearm. It looked at me. I mean, it was a big enough creature to see me as another creature, you know? As opposed to part of the landscape. I hope these giant mantises are common in Kentucky, because otherwise, dude, I saw a giant mantis.
(Now that I think of it, a lot of my stories start with "this one time, in Kentucky...".)
DavidS - Dec 03, 2009 7:21:45 am PST #22629 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I came face to face with a very big mantis in the grass in Ohio and it was discomfiting. As you note, they look at you. Like you're food.
They are totally the great white sharks of their realm.
Polter-Cow - Dec 03, 2009 7:22:12 am PST #22630 of 30001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Ha, Strega, that Batman story is pretty great.
§ ita § - Dec 03, 2009 7:24:49 am PST #22631 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
This morning I was here at 6:55. Sigh.
Oh, god, you have my sympathy. I wish I could linkspam you.
Tommy! Get to work!
tommyrot - Dec 03, 2009 7:30:57 am PST #22632 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Tommy! Get to work!
I am. I'm doing SQL stuff.
unlike some people....
shrift - Dec 03, 2009 7:35:03 am PST #22633 of 30001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
This morning I was here at 6:55.
I do not approve of these shenanigans.
Dana - Dec 03, 2009 7:35:46 am PST #22634 of 30001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
I do not approve of these shenanigans.
I know. I could hardly believe it as I typed it.
§ ita § - Dec 03, 2009 7:38:07 am PST #22635 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
unlike some people....
I can't fight that. I'm currently photoshopping web page screenshots instead of editing the HTML to give me what I want. It's so much quicker and less painful. And very far away from the SQL and the SQL conversation I need to have before this afternoon.
Dana - Dec 03, 2009 7:45:05 am PST #22636 of 30001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Ginger, are you in this thread? I'm going to be in Atlanta on business in mid-January. Maybe we could do dinner.