In a country with as poor a health infrastructure as Jamaica's, striking at the source of infection is very important. I'm going to keep judging. Lives are on the line.
Every nightmare I have that doesn't revolve around academic failure or public nudity is about that thing. In fact, once I dreamt that it attacked me while I was late for a test and naked.
Willow ,'The Killer In Me'
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.
§ ita § - Sep 03, 2010 12:56:45 pm PDT #21992 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Ginger - Sep 03, 2010 1:03:04 pm PDT #21993 of 30001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Asian tiger mosquitoes carry West Nile, so I'm with you with the wanting them all dead. I suspect the culprits in this case are the properties behind me. One that was empty for a long time and is overgrown because the owner's in a nursing home and the other is the one owned by the people who have built the giant fence, the code-violating outbuilding that shades a quarter of my back yard and the giant illegal fire pit. They probably breed mosquitoes for fun.
msbelle - Sep 03, 2010 1:11:41 pm PDT #21994 of 30001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
We are having a rockier night, but managable I think. Mac really wanted my full attention the second he got out of school non-stop all night and I have had to establish that I cannot do that every single night. I probably should have asked my parents to come over tonight, but I am not sure they are up for it.
bon bon - Sep 03, 2010 1:13:33 pm PDT #21995 of 30001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
The thing about bedbugs that amazes me is the stigma. They don't cause disease, they are not associated with uncleanliness - they are itchy and annoying, but so are mosquitoes and there is no stigma about those!
People shouldn't judge others for having them, BUT unlike mosquitos they travel with you, are ludicrously hard to kill/avoid in your own home, and attack when you are vulnerable, making them psychologically horrifying. So yeah, I think people are justified in trying to avoid getting them.
Kat - Sep 03, 2010 1:21:32 pm PDT #21996 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Happy birthday, Liese!
beth b - Sep 03, 2010 1:25:08 pm PDT #21997 of 30001
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
Happy Birthday, Liese!
Kat - Sep 03, 2010 1:31:34 pm PDT #21998 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Bedbug bites, if not treated properly, can cause edema which is no good. Happened to a former coworker who ended up being hospitalized for a few days.
Spidra Webster - Sep 03, 2010 1:41:04 pm PDT #21999 of 30001
I wish I could just go somewhere to get flensed but none of the whaling ships near me take Medicare.
Skanky McFarland is an excellent derby name.
LA Times today pub'd an article about getting airplay on KCRW. The advantage is that I now know more about it (I submitted my album to them months ago), but the disadvantage is now everyone ELSE knows too and will be competing with me to get through to their phone during the brief weekly window when you can check whether your CD has been added to their library and is getting any airplay.
I've GOT to turn my hours around. I was up 'til 3am again last night. It's adding to my depression missing so much daylight and it's bound to get worse in the winter. Gotta turn it around!
Strix - Sep 03, 2010 1:42:59 pm PDT #22000 of 30001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Happy birthday, Liese!
§ ita § - Sep 03, 2010 1:58:00 pm PDT #22001 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Ugh. There was an actual farce of mistaken identity due to the lady with the name like mine mispronounced. A whole cascade of coincidence, too. Because I walk out of the restroom and they're wondering if they've found the right person, and all i can think is "she's actually washing her hands right now, if it's not me you want..."
I can't properly dislike her, because she's never been anything other than enthusiastically nice and cheerful towards me (wait, that might be rationale in and of itself). I just want her called something else, dammit.
Unrelatedly, decision isn't a verb, and timebox isn't a word.
Also, why do we kill a tree for every daily meeting? I'm in content management. I'm supposed to be minimising paper in the workplace, dammit.