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 69: Practically names itself.  

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


Amy - Dec 11, 2011 6:04:56 pm PST #11051 of 30001
Because books.

She's not a lap cat, but definitely human-oriented.

Once Switch was over six months old or so, he wasn't a lap cat anymore, either. But he does like to be in the same room as I am, and he does talk to me. If he's outside and I go out there, that's when he rubs all over my ankles -- I assume to tell any other creatures I belong to him? No clue.

Cortez isn't a lap cat, either, but he is a Velcro cat. He needs to be pressed up against you in some way, and will. not. move. once he's settled and comfortable.


sarameg - Dec 11, 2011 6:11:05 pm PST #11052 of 30001

First week she was here, Pumpkin LOVED to be carried like a baby. Now, NSM. But she still wants to be wherever I am (all three are passed out in the same room with me.)


aurelia - Dec 11, 2011 6:17:14 pm PST #11053 of 30001
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.

I've been mostly absent around her due to spending two weeks in Victorian England with a miser and some ghosts and then two weeks with 4 guys in speedos in a swimming pool in Greece. My month of nearly non-stop tech ended last Thursday and it's taken me this long to catch up here (with only a little bit of skimming, and no skipping!).

ION, I decided not to return to the summer gig I've been doing for 17 years. That's going to be quite the adjustment. I think I've left some of my friends from there a bit shell shocked.

Today I just learned that my brother is dating a woman who was on the gold medal winning softball team in the Sydney Olympics. How wrong would it be of me to do some googling?


sarameg - Dec 11, 2011 6:21:05 pm PST #11054 of 30001

Not wrong.


Kat - Dec 11, 2011 6:24:20 pm PST #11055 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

Not even a little wrong.

Oooh... that makes me want to google my SIL.


§ ita § - Dec 11, 2011 6:27:16 pm PST #11056 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I am so irrationally averse to googling someone I might be seeing. I would probably google my sister's guy, though.

Cajun does refer a place name, just not the right place name anymore.

I do love the origin of the accent name Yat ("Where y'at?"). That one is totally unrelated to location. Any location.


§ ita § - Dec 11, 2011 6:36:28 pm PST #11057 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

For some reason, this makes me think of CSI: Miami. But in a good way.


Amy - Dec 11, 2011 6:36:44 pm PST #11058 of 30001
Because books.

Cajun does refer a place name, just not the right place name anymore.

But even then, "Cajun" wasn't a precise reference to Acadiana, which would have been les Cadiens or les Acadiens.


JenP - Dec 11, 2011 6:42:38 pm PST #11059 of 30001

Pandora now wants to hook me up with men in Philadelphia? I was not expecting that. Well, not Pandora directly. I guess they just want me to know that match.com does. But, hey, free music... it's all good.

More poached chicken and broth. I have a lot of frozen chicken breasts. More soup, and some chicken salad from the current round, I think.

I should go to sleep, but I want to watch Leverage. What to do, what to do?


JenP - Dec 11, 2011 6:48:59 pm PST #11060 of 30001

Cereal:

Ooh, Pandora is now reminding me about Christmas at Longwood Gardens. I haven't done that for more than a decade! I should do that this year. So pretty. I wonder how much it is now?