What is your childhood trauma?

Cordelia ,'Lessons'


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.


Burrell - Mar 04, 2016 6:15:23 pm PST #16807 of 30003
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!

I have never heard before today about Oprah and her bread, but I kinda wish we lived in the kinda culture where people could just love their bread, or their avocados, or their kombucha or whatever.

Today was verrrrrry long, long Friday of a long week. I am ready for a day off. Oh wait, gotta grade this weekend. pllllbbbt! Well in that case I'm taking tonight off from grading PERIOD.


Jesse - Mar 05, 2016 2:56:34 am PST #16808 of 30003
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I have been such a sloth this winter that I can't stand it anymore, so I'm going to go for a good walk this afternoon, via TJMax and Trader Joe's. Maybe I'll actually do laundry this morning? You would think that waking up at 7 would mean I got something done before lunch at the nursing home, but in general, you would be wrong!


Calli - Mar 05, 2016 3:55:10 am PST #16809 of 30003
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

I'm heading off to the farmers market as soon as the Tottenham-Arsenal game is over. It's a nice, half mile walk away, which I will probably cap off with an apple fritter. I'm sensing the first glimmers of some spring cleaning energy, and I'm hoping I can channel them into tackling the spare room. There's some stuff there that I've been meaning to deal with since my dad died in '09.


Steph L. - Mar 05, 2016 4:09:25 am PST #16810 of 30003
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

Tim is making scrambled eggs, and yelled from the kitchen "Do you want anything with the eggs? Some sort of Oprah thing?"

Me: "Wut?"

Tim: "Bread? Toast? Bagel?"


sarameg - Mar 05, 2016 4:30:22 am PST #16811 of 30003

I've been to market and am consuming an empanada and then will do the rest of my shopping. And a roof inspection will happen this weekend. It will.


WindSparrow - Mar 05, 2016 5:03:12 am PST #16812 of 30003
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.

I wish happiness and health for Ophrah but after watching her yo-yo diet her way through the decades, I'll reserve my judgment on the efficacy of WW for her and by extention, me, until I see how she's doing 18 months after she reaches her goal weight.


Jesse - Mar 05, 2016 5:12:56 am PST #16813 of 30003
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

So I bought a big thing of blueberries at the supermarket, and they are really disappointing. (The ones a couple of weeks ago were good!) So what can I do with them that's not turning them into baked goods??


Jesse - Mar 05, 2016 5:13:15 am PST #16814 of 30003
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I guess I could turn them into baked goods I bring into work.


Matt the Bruins fan - Mar 05, 2016 5:35:25 am PST #16815 of 30003
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand

Mix into yogurt? Smoothie?


Jesse - Mar 05, 2016 5:37:04 am PST #16816 of 30003
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Yeah, maybe smoothie.