Inara: So, explain to me again why Zoe wasn't in the dress? Mal: Tactics, woman. Needed her in the back. 'Sides, those soft cotton dresses feel kinda nice. It's the whole... air-flow.

'Our Mrs. Reynolds'


Natter 66: Get Your Kicks.  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, pandas, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


Liese S. - Aug 26, 2010 3:46:30 pm PDT #20451 of 30001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

It's called Wila Verde, and should be available in drugstores and the pharmacy section of department stores.

Ooh, thanks Bev. Will look.

WHAT THE FUCK PASSAGE OF TIME????!!!!

RIGHT?!!

My stomach hurts. But I can't tell if it's muscles ow, swallowed lake water ow, just ate cereal ow, took ibuprofen ow, or shouldn't have tasted the beef stock beef ow. Regardless of the cause, I think I'm solving my "too early" problem by lying down for a while.


Juliebird - Aug 26, 2010 3:51:57 pm PDT #20452 of 30001
I am the fly who dreams of the spider

So the podcast script that I spent four precious work days overhauling to make it sassy enough to warrant the "trash talking" in the grant approved title has been deemed too irreverent and rude. This, after a go-ahead was given with half the script done in said trash-talking style to finish the second half. And, the disapproval of tone wasn't given until we were told, about 9 months after the beginning of the project, that each stop should be only 75 seconds long. So we spent another day trimming before being told to tone down the sass that was already at PG levels. And that this should have been ready by August 1st.

The ED doesn't know what she wants, and only can say that she doesn't like something, but won't specify what, exactly. She said she was "horrified" after reading the first stop, and didn't finish the rest of the script. So now we're doing an overhaul when she didn't even look at the other 11 stops.

I now feel the pain of anyone who writes for a living.


hippocampus - Aug 26, 2010 3:54:51 pm PDT #20453 of 30001
not your mom's socks.

At the risk of sounding pretentious, one if the most important figures in American Literature, will probably never be recognized as such

I totally own my inadequacy on this.


shrift - Aug 26, 2010 3:59:05 pm PDT #20454 of 30001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty

I started feeling not so hot after lunch today, and I elected to stay at the office and get some work done rather than go to the department fun event, because half my team has been out all week. Boss wants to know why I wasn't there. If I get in trouble for not going to the fun event, I'm not going to be pleased.

Of course, now I'm starting to feel worse and I'm recalling that someone was talking about a stomach bug going around. Do not want norovirus.


Polter-Cow - Aug 26, 2010 4:00:24 pm PDT #20455 of 30001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

So many, many things peeve me but the latest one that is driving me to despair is the "to be perfectly honest" or "to be quite frank" and any variant of. Just get to your frakking point, you verbal stammerer!

Ha. The head of our department says "to be honest with you" all the time. Although it's usually at the end of the statement.


Jesse - Aug 26, 2010 4:01:59 pm PDT #20456 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I find myself saying, "I'm not gonna lie" kind of a lot.


Dana - Aug 26, 2010 4:02:26 pm PDT #20457 of 30001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

Of course, now I'm starting to feel worse and I'm recalling that someone was talking about a stomach bug going around. Do not want norovirus.

What? No no no no. Con next week. No sick.


billytea - Aug 26, 2010 4:02:35 pm PDT #20458 of 30001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.

So many, many things peeve me but the latest one that is driving me to despair is the "to be perfectly honest" or "to be quite frank" and any variant of. Just get to your frakking point, you verbal stammerer!

The part that baffles me is why anyone thinks it makes them sound more honest.


-t - Aug 26, 2010 4:06:35 pm PDT #20459 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

I find myself saying "to be honest" or such like when I feel like I am about to be a little more honest than might be welcome. More of a warning than a promise.


sarameg - Aug 26, 2010 4:06:42 pm PDT #20460 of 30001

Applied stripper to 6 spindles. My hands still don't like me from last weekend. They got all shaky, and all I was wielding was a paint brush. Tomorrow night will be fuuuuun.