Mighty fine shindig.

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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.


Trudy Booth - Sep 17, 2010 10:32:58 am PDT #24491 of 30001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart

Happy Birthday, Perkins!

Good Luck, Kathy!


shrift - Sep 17, 2010 10:37:31 am PDT #24492 of 30001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty

Happy birthday, Perkins!


Kate P. - Sep 17, 2010 10:37:38 am PDT #24493 of 30001
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love

Oh, and Happy Birthday to Perkins and to the Phoenix!


Daisy Jane - Sep 17, 2010 10:48:27 am PDT #24494 of 30001
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."

Could you average each? So "students responded that on average $Specific number, or a range of $Lower end-$Higher end."


Kathy A - Sep 17, 2010 10:49:16 am PDT #24495 of 30001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil

Happy birthday, Perkins (and the Board, too!)

And thanks, Kate and Trudy (and everyone else, too). I've got some bloodwork and a sleep study to do next week, and then the liaison with the surgeon will put the paperwork through to Blue Cross. As soon as they get an approval from the HMO (estimated 1-4 weeks), we can schedule the surgery. I'm hoping to be able to have it the week of November 15th, which will work best for my office (I'm taking three weeks short-term leave) and my mom coming out for that first week to help me out. I should only have to miss one class that first week, and still have the weekend of Thanksgiving to recover even more before going back to school.

Before the actual surgery, I'll still have to have two endoscopies done (one for gall bladder, one for something else I can't recall offhand) and return to the vein specialist for a followup around Halloween. When I have the actual surgery, they'll be putting in a filter into my vena cava as well to help prevent any blood clots from forming (it'll disappear after about 100 days).


Fred Pete - Sep 17, 2010 11:08:35 am PDT #24496 of 30001
Ann, that's a ferret.

Vortex, what are your PTB looking for? If they want one specific number, I'd probably use the middle of each range. If they're just trying to get a general idea, you might be able to get away with, "The general consensus of the students was $ to $" without doing a lot of math.


§ ita § - Sep 17, 2010 11:15:53 am PDT #24497 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I can't open the tupperware container with my heated lunch in it. I feel like a doof.

Autumn is upon us. I just sent a shitload of requests to my TiVo. Apparently I can't season pass Defenders. I don't know if this is for my own good. Hawaii Five-O passed muster, though.

Okay, bandage off. Back to attempting lunch.


Jesse - Sep 17, 2010 11:17:33 am PDT #24498 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Autumn is upon us.

I'm thinking about dark nails this weekend!


Vortex - Sep 17, 2010 11:28:07 am PDT #24499 of 30001
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman

"The general consensus of the students was $ to $" without doing a lot of math.

yes, that's what I'm going to do, I think. Essentially, we allocate a certain amount of the scholarship for books at the bookstore, and the students have always said that it wasn't enough. I decided to do a survey, and asked them what they thought it should be. I should have limited the answer to a whole number, but I also ended up getting some good comments.


Atropa - Sep 17, 2010 11:33:14 am PDT #24500 of 30001
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.

Autumn is upon us.

THANK GOD. Boots! Velvet jackets!

Huh. I need to decide what the heck I'm wearing tomorrow to the Steampunk Swapmeet I'm vending at. The organizer is encouraging people to dress up, and I want to make sure that I look very Victorian Goth. (The organizer is one of the people who really likes hot glue guns and gears on everything.)