I like books. I just don't want to take on too much. Do they have an introduction to the modern blurb?

Buffy ,'Lessons'


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.


brenda m - Dec 15, 2010 9:54:31 am PST #11301 of 30001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there

Pretty much my reaction, yeah.


Consuela - Dec 15, 2010 9:54:36 am PST #11302 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

Brenda, I find "Flying Spaghetti Monster!" to be very useful for those moments. Or "Fuck a flying dead duck!" Or "Dear sweet jebuslug!"


Liese S. - Dec 15, 2010 9:54:46 am PST #11303 of 30001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

I am doing my job! Oh, you`re talking to Jesse. Guilty conscience.
 
Thank goodness, Suela. Here`s hoping for a smooth transition, with raise!
I have painted my nails Verde from the Nubar Venetian Glass collection and this has apparently made me less homicidal, and it turns out I`m having quite a productive morning.
 
This afternoon is our last party, and then we`re on Christmas break. Or I am, anyway. The SO is working way too many holiday hours at the music store lessons. But I will be done, whoot. So now I need to do some self-assessment to see what needs doing over the next few weeks. I want to strike a balance of getting big boring work tasks done, big boring household tasks done, plus actually having the sensation of having time off. It will take a lot of discipline to achieve, so I may need to call on youse guys.
 
Oh, and the next Onerous Task day ended up the day after the concert & party, so it`ll be good, because I`ll want to lie around, but there will be lots to do. And if I do it, I could then have a nice clean house for the rest of the party. I mean, holiday season.


Jesse - Dec 15, 2010 9:54:49 am PST #11304 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Holy shit.


Sparky1 - Dec 15, 2010 9:56:36 am PST #11305 of 30001
Librarian Warlord

You could always tell her you're not saying out of frustration, but praying loudly.


msbelle - Dec 15, 2010 9:59:24 am PST #11306 of 30001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

I sold the PS2. YAY!

oh brenda. you could do like my religious great grandmother and say "Judas Jesse".


Atropa - Dec 15, 2010 10:00:54 am PST #11307 of 30001
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.

Just got the following email from the person who sits in the next cube to me.

Switch to Sweet Zombie Jesus.

Thank you for the reminder, ita! I just Twittered about it.


bon bon - Dec 15, 2010 10:01:57 am PST #11308 of 30001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.

Good God.

Speaking of crazy importuning emails, here is one that just came to my husband!

Dear Professor,

I know it is really obnoxious to ask this-- but can I please have an A? I realize now that zooming through exams in order to be finished so we could have as much time as possible to discuss philosophy might not have been the smartest method of test-taking. but, looking back at everything, can I have an A because I do, in fact, know the information, and I showed up every day, and participated, plus, I am pretty damn cool.

Regardless, how does one go about swapping majors? Also, what classes do you teach next semester?

He was not joking.


beth b - Dec 15, 2010 10:04:32 am PST #11309 of 30001
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!

The first email was odd. ( because -- just ask. forget all t he extra stuff) but that one ... somehow he/she should have found a philosophical reason.


§ ita § - Dec 15, 2010 10:05:35 am PST #11310 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I get that person's urges to not hear that (I'm a workplace pearl-clutcher after all). Shattering? Shaking and crying.