Dawn: I think a date should be in a real fancy restaurant, then champagne at a night club with a floor show, then ballroom dancing. Joyce: Unfortunately, we're not dating in a movie from the thirties.

'Get It Done'


Natter 74: Ready or Not  

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


lisah - Feb 17, 2016 6:45:47 pm PST #15723 of 30003
Punishingly Intricate

Congrats, Kalshane!!!

I have had a number of violent sleep episodes but I've not actually bruised my sleeping partner (yet). I've definitely injured myself, though, and the wall and the ceiling fan!

Meara, that really sucks. I would be super pissed and feel like I couldn't really be mad, also. The worst!

We could move to Canada, I guess, should the election go some horrible way but I think I'm too bull-headed to do that. This is my god-damned country! Even if some jack-hole takes over the presidency for 4-8 years.

eta: I mean, my husband is a Canadian citizen so we could legally move there, I guess. He had a lot of offers of marriage in the early 2000s due to W but, thank goodness, didn't take any of the offerors up on it.


meara - Feb 17, 2016 7:08:47 pm PST #15724 of 30003

Yeah, I'm just wanting to cry. Because I wouldn't have planned this trip on my own. Two weeks of travel by myself is NOT my idea of fun. At all. And I know me, and know it will seriously limit what I'm willing and able to do, especially after dark. And a portion of the trip involves expeditions into the desert in jeeps with guides, which I'm really not excited about alone. Friend offered to pay to postpone the trip but I can't (work wise) and it would be winter there, by then, which would also suck. And even if she paid for someone else to go, I don't know many people who can take off two weeks of work--on two weeks' notice!!! And are someone I want to travel with. (She was like "I'll ask my network" and I'm like "travels with a complete stranger? Yeah, that's not a great alternative..")


-t - Feb 17, 2016 7:33:16 pm PST #15725 of 30003
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Yeah, there isn't an obvious solution. Do you have any unemployed friends who have secretly always wanted to go to Chile?


meara - Feb 17, 2016 7:49:25 pm PST #15726 of 30003

Not that I'm aware of?

But also I'm not even sure what's fair to ask of her, you know? I mean, the accommodations are a sink cost at this point, but I don't even know how much a plane ticket would be all last minute. And is that fair?


beth b - Feb 17, 2016 7:53:12 pm PST #15727 of 30003
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!

congrats, Kalshane


Burrell - Feb 17, 2016 8:16:48 pm PST #15728 of 30003
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!

Ugh meara, that really is a mess

My Tai Chi class didn't happen tonight. I don't know why - I got there a couple of minutes before it should have started (I thought) and no one was there, the office was dark and locked.

oh dear, that's not good. Tai Chi class should be rewarding, not disappointing.


Kat - Feb 18, 2016 2:27:50 am PST #15729 of 30003
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

meara, that absolutely sucks. I wish there were a buffista traveling companion that could go.

Kalshane, best wishes to you both!

My cold kicked in and we have parent-teacher conferences tonight. I am not pleased.


-t - Feb 18, 2016 4:00:16 am PST #15730 of 30003
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Hopefully I can ask someone on Saturday, Burrell. Probably I just misunderstood something about the scheduling.

Yeah, meara, figuring out how to pay for your hypothetical replacement Chile traveling companion was going to be the next step in my salvage "plan".


Jesse - Feb 18, 2016 4:27:12 am PST #15731 of 30003
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Ugh, meara, that totally sucks. I hope you can figure something out.


Kalshane - Feb 18, 2016 4:32:44 am PST #15732 of 30003
GS: If you had to choose between kicking evil in the head or the behind, which would you choose, and why? Minsc: I'm not sure I understand the question. I have two feet, do I not? You do not take a small plate when the feast of evil welcomes seconds.

"Frustrating" doesn't begin to cover that, meara. That sucks.

Congrats, Kalshane! We need more good news for 2016.

Thank you. I know this year has been a right bastard to a lot of people so far. Hopefully it's just getting everything out of the way early.

And thanks again for all the kind words, everyone.