Come on. You drop by for a cup of coffee, and the world's not ending? Please.

Connor ,'Not Fade Away'


Natter 67: Overriding Vetoes  

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


Sue - Dec 12, 2010 6:21:34 pm PST #10672 of 30001
hip deep in pie

Eddie Bauer package arrived in MA yesterday and will be shipped to my folks place tomorrow...whew!

For presents I have to: get a book for my BiL, get jokey socks to go with nephew's cash (yes, he's 14 and I've resorted to cash!), get gift card for brother, get something for my SiL on behalf of my my mother, decide if I'm giving my sis the sweater I bought her or find out which e-book reader my BiL bought her and get GC for that. Oh, and buy something for myself on behalf of mother.

That list is longer than I like.


§ ita § - Dec 12, 2010 6:30:40 pm PST #10673 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I have to return a package of the swimsuits I don't. Scared of the post office. I hope I can return it at work, but the box says Linda the Bra Lady all over it.

After positing strenuously that my boobs are bigger than hers, my sister wants to try on my pricey bras in case they fit and she can get some. Hmmph. Who's not so big now, huh?


Trudy Booth - Dec 12, 2010 6:57:30 pm PST #10674 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

(Note to Jilli, Cass, Trudy et al: thanks almost entirely to your evangelistic squeeing, Danger Days is now on the list.)

::one of us one of us::


Kat - Dec 12, 2010 6:59:58 pm PST #10675 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

I have finished my grading. Okay. I finished the electronic grading I have. PRAISE! I am getting another paper set tomorrow but I can be on top of it, right? Probably not, but oh well.


Amy - Dec 12, 2010 7:04:40 pm PST #10676 of 30001
Because books.

Aw, Ben just got home from his first rock concert! A friend's parents took them. Ben said there was much crowd-surfing and vibration and his "face was melted".

Baby's first show! I'm all verklempt.


billytea - Dec 12, 2010 7:55:25 pm PST #10677 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.

::one of us one of us::

Hee. I checked it out on that official YouTube site Cass(?) linked to. I find it's not so differentiated in the middle, but Planetary!GO is bouncy fun, and I rather like what they're trying to do in Scarecrow. (And then there are the released singles of course, those are excellent.) So, it's on the list. Next time you get to one of their concerts, tell 'em they owe you a toaster.


Liese S. - Dec 12, 2010 8:05:09 pm PST #10678 of 30001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

Aww, baby rocker! (Err, Ben, I mean, not billytea, although I suppose it may apply in a more literal sense.) What band?
 
I am seriously zonkered right now. Busy day, but good one.
 
The chorale did a pretty good job with the Handel tonight and I`m glad the SO insisted I go. I enjoyed it, once the parent removed the child behind my chair who was cussing. The only hinky vocals were in the middle (sadly, my favorite air) where they used non-chorale-member students who were too old to be cute and not good enough to be good. But the rest was quite good and the tenor and the last soprano were exquisite.
 
Arts are why I wish I were a rich person who lived in the city. This is probably all I`ll get all year. But it was fun.


smonster - Dec 12, 2010 8:06:51 pm PST #10679 of 30001
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.

I think I was the one that linked the YouTube site, billytea. So glad you're enjoying it!


aurelia - Dec 12, 2010 8:14:02 pm PST #10680 of 30001
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.

My parents keep telling my nephew that he's getting underwear and socks unless they get a wish list. I joked that they should get day-of-the-week underwear. Having just attempted to Google, I'm very glad that my mother is not likely to Google.


megan walker - Dec 12, 2010 8:17:58 pm PST #10681 of 30001
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist

My sister once told my nephew that one year when he was extremely young (there was even a song) and ever since we all get some every year. Except she only gives me and my SIL socks because it would be odd to give another grown woman underwear.