Summer: Have you check out in front?
Yay! Noticed by Rue! Noticed by Rue!
So - am I no longer a newbie? Huh? Huh?
BTW he’s doing better, though I would’nt suggest he watch Un Chien Andalu (sp?) anytime soon.
Yup - the caffeine has kicked in…
Ellen, (ha! I may always scribe your name like that. But probably not. I’ll forget soon. I’m like that.) if either of my poor posts brings you a small shred of joy, you are quite welcome to them. (I like the “mouth taste” one. It makes you seem more… exotic.)
Politzania (I couldn’t decide between “Poli” and “Zanista” (Zan-eeeee-stah!) so I went all formal.) revel in your newbi-ocity. The special sheen of a new Doper is not something to shrug off lightly. sniff sniff Yup, you still have that heady “new poster smell”. There’s more than one Old Timer you’d give their (see, I’m being all non-gender-specific here, it could be anyone) eye teeth to recapture the je n’cest-quoi of their Newbieness. Soon enough you’ll be a hard-bitten Oldster. (If you like to be bitten hard. I don’t recomend it myself. A nice light nibble can be good from time to time. I’m also partial to licks, but everyone knows that.)
Omni-Not, you seemed a little jealous of Summs’ nickname. (I think it was in the other “Sweet SummerOne” thread, but I ain’t goin’ to look.)
[deep, important-guy voice]
From this day forward, you shall be… Nottie!
[/deep, important-guy voice]
[Animal House moment]
“Nottie? Why Nottie?”
"Why not Nottie!?! burp
[/Animal House moment]
Be well,
Be wise,
Bespeckled,
Rue. (It’s the mustard, man! The mustard!!) (babekitten knows.)
Um . . .well, hi. I’m Sakura, daughter of DAVEW0071 and pretty much a newbie since I haven’t posted in an outrageously long time - over 5 months, probably. I’d intended to post again and this seems to be a good thread to start Doping all over again to.
So-
I’ve started looking at colleges-began with the high school college expo-which is scary as all get-out because I really really realllly don’t want to end up majoring in Interfamily Marrriage Relationships at Hillybilly U (although I hear the college cafeteria makes wonderful cornbread.)
PSATs are next week, which means I have a full seven days to panic about my inabilty to quadradtically compute x’s and the cube root of y and all the big scary words with too many vowels and over three syllables.
On a positive, non-academic note - I got my first job a little while ago and I can now make fillings and dental cement. (Guess where I work!) The pay is almost less than minimum, but it beats flipping burgers. Besides, I get to wear a comfy cover-shirt thingy instead of a bunch of pins advertizing the new genuine, immitation beef burger. 
I’ve just posted on the message board again so things are looking up.
arrgh! IN-Family Marriage Realationships. In There goes that joke.
Hi Rue
I have a new job–nay, I have a new career.
And you might, if you lived in Bloomington, IN (and yes, Bobby Knight really is that bad, and John Mellencamp is kind of conceited, but at least he does eat at local restaurants sometimes), yes, you just might, at this very moment, have a Bloomington Herald-Times, neatly folded and bagged, resting majestically on the roof of your home. Or maybe in the shrubs. I don’t know, because it is 4 a.m. when I deliver the darn thing and no one ever leaves their lights on.
So…let’s see. The baby ate a leaf and barfed it up, and that was an exceptionally pleasant interlude. I just love fall. And my almost-3 yo has learned that when he whines, Momma says, “Use words!” he is supposed to say, “Woooord.” 
And I am having some poems published in a magazine called Wind, which is produced in Kentucky somewhere and supposed to have a good reputation.
How’s that!? Do I qualify for stultifyingly boring yet?
~karol
Well, I still don’t have a job. I had what sounded like a good possibility yesterday through a contracting firm, but the target company’s budget got cut the day they got my rèsumè. But they loved my rèsumè! :sigh: I should have anticipated this; they are a dotcom company.
And I got my paperwork to extend health care - it looks like it will cost nearly $300 a month to keep it going. Ouch.
And I got the property tax bill too. Nearly $4000 OUCH.
I’m still ok for a while, but this seriously impacts how long I can exist on savings alone. Good thing unemployment will last for another 3 months.
On other fronts, I was going to have chicken-fried steak and real mashed potatoes for supper. I burned the potatoes. In the microwave. Now the house smells like smoke.
Someone want to give me a hug? 
On the lighter side, I made a catnip toy for the cats. Moody (who luuuuuuvvvvs catnip) immediately started making love to the toy. Later I heard an odd sound from her. I went to the room she was in and she was acting nervous and her head whipped around when she heard me. Then she jumped (literally) when Shilla came through the kitty door. And her tail fluffed up sooo big. Are you having a bad trip, baby? Poor, poor kitty cat.
This teaches me to read rather than skim posts. I saw this and read “I killed TP on a roll today btw.” and I thought, “But, Soda, I didn’t even talk to you today, let alone be killed by you, metaphorically or physically. Especially not on a… oh, wait. She’s not talking about me, is she?”
Life is continuing on today. I actually went back to work yesterday (didn’t do much, just helped plan and throw a going away party for two of the girls that are going to a different department). Last night, watched lurker play in a darts tournament, and have more drinks than I probably should have. Today… well, we’ll just see what today brings.
Arrrrgghhhh!!! Fine. Fine, fine fine. I’ll forward you the pics of my tummy. Right now. This very second, I’m typing with one hand and opening up my email with the other so I can send you pics. sigh
IS THERE ANYONE ELSE I FORGOT???
-BK [sub]who can’t quite understand why she doesn’t get this kind of attention in real life[/sub]
Is my face red. Well, not really red. That’s just an expression. Like “Call me sometime”. I am a little embarassed. But only a little.
In my last post I tried to be all “High Class Society Guy” and drop in a little French. High School was a long time a go, and I botched it. “je n’cest-quoi” Sheesh, I don’t think that means anything. Maybe “I am not what”. I meant “je ne sais quoi”.
C’est la vie.
I did take French in High School. I forgot almost all of it. If I ever go to France (or Frech-speaking Canada) I’ll resort to the time honored American tradition of talking real slow and real loud.
“Hey Pierre! Some food here! Chop-chop! And none of those snail things either!” That would probably take place in a Post Office, or a gas station.
I think I got “je ne sais quoi” confused with “ne c’est pas?”, which is French for “innit?”.
English:
This is some good pie, innit?
Frence:
La tarte est yummy, ne c’est pas?
-Rue. (trying to bring the World closer)
TruePisces, I thought Soda said “I killed a TP roll today…”
That made no sense what-so-ever. Yeah, everyone sees the end of a TP roll every now and then, but ever I wouldn’t post about it. (Unless it was a Monday, and I was really desperate for a thread subject.)
On the second reading I read what was actually there, and I was all better.
babekitten, if you went around offering people glimpses of your tummy in real life, you’d get more attention.
“Hey mister, wanna see my tummy?”
This would get you lots of attention.
-Rue.
Rue - I didn’t know your were bilingual!! Je suis impressed… See, I took French too! Actually, I took thru French 4, eons ago, and when I went to Paris, I ate snails. mmmmmmmmm
My idiot Dalmatian is bleeding - she escaped the yard again yesterday. Won’t stay in her nice, safe, comfy yard with a doggy-door into the basement. And came back and crashed and didn’t move all night. Then this morning, her shoulder was bleeding. Stupid dog. So I had to bandage her up - she’s sleeping on the living room floor right now. Anybody want a Stupid Dalmatian?? I’ll deliver!
<sigh>
Uhhh… or arrested.
And don’t feel badly… three years of French and four years of Latin, and all I rememeber is ‘hello’ ‘goodbye’ ‘how are you’ ‘I don’t know shit’ and ‘Is your daughter 18?’ Not very helpful at all.
-BK
Hey Rue – thanks! I’ve been your fan since the Pita Bread Boy.
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Come on Rue, just ONE more post!
Me? I’m, doing fair to middlin’, thanks. Back home in Miami after two and a half weeks away, picked up my cat today from the kennel, and he is in his gotta-stay-within-18-inches-of-Bill mode. Spent the last week in Savannah, where I used to work before here. My latest ex-g/f, (almost two years ago) is dating a really nice guy I used to work very closely with, kind of a punch-in-the-gut-but-I-really-do-like-the-guy sort of feeling. She was con-VEEN-iently absent when I made the rounds near her office yesterday. Saw my little brother and his wife and kids in Charleston last weekend, first time in their new home. Gave a kick-ass class to a bunch of guys who work for my company Wednesday and Thursday.
On the other hand my new boss is just not working out. Doesn’t have the right kind of brain for the position. Figures, he was hired by the relatively new VP, his boss, who also does not have the right kind of thought processes for the job. But at least me being gone for two and a half weeks exposed the ineptitude of my boss, from what I can tell. And I’m getting a laptop and company cell phone (duh). Had to jump start my bike this afternoon because I hadn’t ridden it in weeks, but had a nice ride today.
And Soda, my cat can kick your dog’s ass.
Just so you are clear on the order of events,
#1. My name was not in the thread title
#2. I was not told what Omni’s name here was. I know him
by another name.
That’s my story on why it took me so long to find the place. It has nothing, I repeat, nothing to do with being blonde!
“Désolé, je suis American. Please cook my steak again…je ne parle pas français.” [sub]Ben Folds[/sub]
Wait, is this what this thread was all about? I feel so used!
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Being not as altruistic as Spider, I’ll make mine conditional to your personal guarantee that you will have completed my Tarot reading by no later than December 23th, at 11:59 P.M.:D.
{{{{Provisional hug}}}}