Cool! How do you do that?
With a magnetic induction cooker. It sounds cooler to just say I cook with magnets.
You got fired, and you still hang around here like a big loser. Why can't he?
Cordelia ,'Chosen'
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.
-t - Nov 30, 2011 8:33:37 am PST #9258 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Frankenbuddha - Nov 30, 2011 8:36:58 am PST #9259 of 30001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
I saw the coolest book when we were out shopping yesterday, and thought of Jilli, and of other Buffistas. It's this coolly drawn, interactive book, "There Was An Old Lady That Swallowed a Fly"
Wouldn't there be a Jilli-font in there somewhere?
Toddson - Nov 30, 2011 8:38:19 am PST #9260 of 30001
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Making soup with magnets sounds like a modernized version of "Stone Soup".
Allyson - Nov 30, 2011 8:50:24 am PST #9261 of 30001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
Uh, did I know we'd been namechecked in a webcomic?
I bought a signed print.
I'm not making my proposal deadline and feel like a failure, that I've lost my writing mojo, and am in general a complete loser.
To solve this, I am going to eat cake for breakfast, go into the bathroom for a good cry, and try to get through my workday.
Burrell - Nov 30, 2011 9:05:28 am PST #9262 of 30001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
Allyson, whatever happens with that deadline, you are a writer, and a damn good one!
§ ita § - Nov 30, 2011 9:07:02 am PST #9263 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I don't think that missing a writing deadline has yet made someone a bad person. Think how unlikely it would be for you to be the first, Allyson! That's how I manage that.
I'm so not a psychologist.
Cashmere - Nov 30, 2011 9:07:49 am PST #9264 of 30001
Now tagless for your comfort.
This one, Allyson? Cause that's AWESOME.
Sick kids at home involves lots of Angry Birds, crackers and Sprite.
Maria - Nov 30, 2011 9:09:13 am PST #9265 of 30001
Not so nice is that I'm about to ruin a Friday morning for a bunch of people because of a series of unfortunate events and an upset foreign government. - shrift
I'm not making my proposal deadline and feel like a failure, that I've lost my writing mojo, and am in general a complete loser.
You're not, and please stop telling yourself that. Losers are people who do horrible, heinous things like hate people on the basis of their color or sexual orientation. That's not you.
You haven't lost your writing mojo; it's just not cooperating at the present moment. You are a published author with multiple books and bylines to her credit, and you have done and seen things in the world that I can only dream of. Please stop beating up my friend. I think she's pretty awesome.
Jessica - Nov 30, 2011 9:10:56 am PST #9266 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
OMG I have to stop reading breastfeeding threads on Feministe. The stupid, it burns.
DavidS - Nov 30, 2011 9:12:49 am PST #9267 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I'm not making my proposal deadline and feel like a failure, that I've lost my writing mojo, and am in general a complete loser.
My Tom Waits book was six months late. Writing is hard. As far as your mojo, it always feels like I have to reinvent myself as a writer every time I sit down for a new project. Writing accesses a particular part of your brain, a web of associations and processes. It's tricky to get into that exact space if you haven't been there lately. Once you do get into a groove, though, that writing brain space will feel completely normal.