Posts by Amy Gale
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And of course by "others" I mean the teacher. I was That Kid.
(But weren't we all? All of us in this room, I mean?)
Lordy, no. Me and teh wordz, we have reached a detente of sorts, but in English class? Between the future Rhodes-Scholar/English-Prof and the terrifying volume of aspiring lawyers[*]? The role of That Kid was well and truly taken.
Note I'm referring only to English class, here. I wouldn't want to stretch your credulity too far.
[*] Now presumably even more terrifying, as Actual Lawyers.
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If you've never met someone from Wisconsin, you have probably never seen the Awesome Trick whereby they can hold up their hand and point to a place on it to show where they are from. Michigan people can do something similar, except they hold their hand the other way around and the Upper Peninsula doesn't get represented.
In honor of this practice, I can now render a fairly creditable North Island/South Island combo. Sadly it requires both hands, so I have to point out Wellington with my nose.
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Ooo, are we all posting our sordid stories about Nat Torkington?
Once upon a time I was catsitting for Nat. I think this may have been for the USA trip on which he first met Jenine irl, but that doesn't really affect the story one way or another.
So I was looking through the freezer, as you do, and I found a plastic bag of Some Herbal Substance. So I did what anyone would do: I moved it right to the back under a handy unidentifiable-berg, and initiated the following conversation when he got back.
- So, yeah, the cats were fine, everything was good, and I smoked your stash.
- My stash?
- Uh huh, I found your stash, and I invited people round, and we smoked it.
- My...stash?
- In the freezer.
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Am I the only one now scouring usenet / my memory / my conscience?
Ok, good.
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ask Nat Torkington about the time he walked into my house...
Ooo, are we all posting our sordid stories about Nat Torkington?
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Can we have a parallel vote for phrase of the year?
Stephen's nomination of it's knowledge, bro is an excellent one.
I'm also extremely partial to bourgeois legume patties and normal people don't do that kind of shit and so aren't aware of the other meanings.
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Footnotes have no place in a novel (unless you're Terry Pratchett, Kurt Vonnegut, or David Foster Wallace, I guess).
Not a Mark Danielewski fan, then?
Sorry I ever complained about the endnotes in Infinite Jest, now. At least they're right side up, in English, and by a single 'author'.
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Note to self:
Dear Amy,
You don't live in Wellington. You haven't lived in Wellington in nearly a decade. Stop getting all excited when you see that a cool event is happening in Wellington. You will only end up disappointed when reality hits.
love,
Amy -
Big Bang Theory is about the only current show I can think of where the geeks look like geeks.
Fair call in its way, but just as all women are real, so are all geeks. There are plenty of subtypes that entail rigorous physical activity, such as those passionately into Ultimate Frisbee, or SCA, or hockey.
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Margins are off by one millimeter. Please re-submit.