When you look back at this, in the three seconds it'll take you to turn to dust, I think you'll find the mistake was touching my stuff.

Buffy ,'Lessons'


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 06, 2010 5:28:24 pm PDT #22458 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I have severly mixed feelings about dogs licking my feet.

Where do you let them lick you?


Steph L. - Sep 06, 2010 5:28:49 pm PDT #22459 of 30001
I look more rad than Lutheranism

Darb just walked in to the room, licked my big toe three or four times, and walked back out.

Pets is weird. Kato licks his bed and/or the floor All. The. Time. This (from Hyperbole and a Half, genesis of Clean All The Things!) made me laugh until I cried, particularly the part about the dog licking the floor. Because that's Kato. (Also, we tried the dog biscuit trick [you'll see if you read it], and Chloe did it in about 20 seconds, while it took Kato probably 2 minutes. I was aghast.)


Jesse - Sep 06, 2010 5:32:20 pm PDT #22460 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Where do you let them lick you?

Ew, nowhere. Which may be why they resort to the feet.


Liese S. - Sep 06, 2010 5:33:16 pm PDT #22461 of 30001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

In my problems are small world: I got summoned for jury duty Wednesday. I had a moderately sized meltdown about it a couple of weeks ago when I heard, and then I basically dealt. But I still feel the same way about it. But I guess I`ve been covering well enough, because the day before, tomorrow, the SO scheduled not one but two recording sessions. We work together in the morning, then he teaches alone in the afternoon, then two sessions. So I will be alone in the house stewing about it all night.
 
I realize it will likely be no big deal. And I may not end up having to serve. But at a minimum it will be two hours on the road on a workday and a lot sitting around with People. And I have radical views about prisons, which I will either have to put on the record or ignore, and my brane just will not quit with the Responsibility Of It All. Sheesh, brain. So help a sister out, peeps, what should I expect?


Kat - Sep 06, 2010 5:33:43 pm PDT #22462 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

I do not like dogs who lick. At all. Though I have one and I hate it.

msbelle, yay for a normalish weekend with mac! Progress rocks!


dcp - Sep 06, 2010 5:34:57 pm PDT #22463 of 30001
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.

Not sure how reliable ancestry.com is, though.

About as reliable as Wikipedia, and for the same reasons.

It's a good starting point, though.


Kat - Sep 06, 2010 5:35:18 pm PDT #22464 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

Liese, I've been called for jury duty 3 times since I've been in LA. I never get chosen because I have sort of extremist views. The last time I said something about how I was angry and not willing to be particularly fair because I'm tired of the extremely litigious nature of society.


Jesse - Sep 06, 2010 5:37:13 pm PDT #22465 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

In my experience with jury duty in several locations, you should mostly expect waiting around in a big room, and possibly in a court room. There's some possibility you'll be asked to answer questions the lawyers and judge would use to decide if you're suitable for their jury, and your views of prisons may or may not come into play. But I've only gotten that far (voir dire) twice out of four times I've been called. Someone I know got released after honestly saying she couldn't send anyone to prison for a drug crime because she thought the laws were unjust.


Amy - Sep 06, 2010 5:40:01 pm PDT #22466 of 30001
Because books.

Lucy was not a licker, but we had a cat for a long time who licked earlobes, and drooled while he did it.


-t - Sep 06, 2010 5:41:55 pm PDT #22467 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Liese, I just got called for jury duty a couple of weeks ago. My experience: check in in the morning, then a couple of hours of waiting around (which was surrounded by people, but I didn't have to talk to them or anything (hooray for free wifi)), then judge assignment. We were a pool for a civil trial, so attitudes towards prison didn't come up, but about lawsuits in general and the specifics of the case did - filled out a survey before reporting to the courtroom. Maybe 2/3 of our pool got questioned over the course of the day, but I didn't, and it went on all day, which everyone said was unusual, but be prepared for that, I guess.

Oh, and they had estimated how long the trial was apt to take. People who had prepaid vacations scheduled during that time were excused from serving; people who would be missing work or had child care issues were not excused by the judge, but most of them were excused by the lawyers, I think.