I have seen women put on makeup while riding #BART. It's grooming. But this chick clipping her nails three seats away is just a little disgusting. Someone has to sit in your detritus now, Miss? Public transportation sucks!
While I realize that no person can "make" me feel bad, and my feelings are a choice, it's still a fact that I now feel sad, disappointed, and unable to concentrate on work. And your behavior just flat out sucks.
Actions cause reactions and sometimes feeling bad versus feeling murderous -bad is okay.
- Janet-The Bottley Crue
I took myself out for a burger and chocolate shake. Pity eating. It helped a little. Sort of. Now Wade and I are coloring, that is definitely helping.
- Laura Norvig
Maybe if you wait 10 frickin' seconds to let the people getting off the train do their business, we wouldn't get these angry logjams in #BART doorways. Let people off the train first you morons!
All you wanna do is zooma-zoom-zoom-zoom an' a boom-boom?
- Bubba Botts
Until I enlarged the image I feared that might be an "occupied" casket in the background! (To which I could only think "Man, that is one SWINGIN' funeral!")
- Mark J
Lord.... ah well, I'd never be mistaken for a "good" dancer, but when I'm on the dance floor, no one is having more fun than I am. No one. It's just not possible.
- MoTO Bott
I have to learn the art of saying something off-the-wall that makes tons of people respond. I don't comment the entire day so people can get more bewildered, and then come in saying that it was really about something minor and stupid.
I wish I could wave a wand and make all things better. I am so sorry your family is going through this. Know my prayers are being said for all, hoping somewhere they are heard and you and Frank find a moment of comfort and peace.
- Janet-The Bottley Crue
You and Frank are in my thoughts, Jim. Many of us have been where you are, in some fashion, and we yearn to support you. Some of the most meaningful advice I was ever given was simply a reminder that I am not alone, and that it's okay to ask for help. Always remember that you're surrounded. :)
- felicious
Just catching up to this sad news. My thoughts are with Frank, you, and your family, Jim. Having sat this same vigil, there's nothing to say that really helps, I know. Just know we're all thinking about you.
- Trish R
Thinking of you, Frank, and family. Hugs.
- Anne Bouey
I wish there was something I could say or do that would help. I can't imagine how difficult this must be for you, Jim. Know that you and your family are in my thoughts and prayers.
- Curdy G
They are amazing people. They helped us when my grandfather passed. It's almost been a year now and they still contact us to make sure we're okay and offer services.
- Soup in a TARDIS
I think they're great, but come to the desk with something else going on that you're paying attention to and you'll be waiting for a while if you want me to help you.
- Derrick
What if I offered the other earbud to you and asked you to point me in the direction of more literature that may or may not go along with the artist/music/or audiobook?
- CW✔
Those are fleeting and unlikely circumstances. Use your words.
- Derrick
We have here an indication that Derrick is going to be one of those librarians who doesn't believe the patron is always right. Which, along with everything else I've seen, suggests he's going to be one hell of a good librarian.
- Walt Crawford
haha, thanks. I think more than anything it's just a respect thing. It's really not that hard.
- Derrick
^yeah, big difference between the two. Sympathy/empathy can be so constructive and helpful. A pity party? :( Not so much. Those are for me, myself, and I. And, I hate asking for help too. "The three hardest things to say are, 'I love you,' 'I'm sorry,' and 'Help me.'"
- Anna Haro
I used to have a couple lovely cashmere v-necks but I gave them away after just a few years in SoCal. Right now I miss them terribly, as it is freakin' cold up here.
- Corinne L
I'm a suede man, but I'll have that cashmere
- Mo Kargas
Leather for me, hahaha . . . actually I have never had anything leather other than belts and shoes. I do like silk though. Cashmere is heavenly.
- Friar Will (:^)
Come to think of it, my Grandma used to get me a cashmere sweater (almost) every year for Christmas (she used to work at Simpsons).
- Brent
from iPhone
Other wools feel scratchy to me (including merino). Someone suggested I might be slightly allergic to wools. But cashmere feels great - scarves & sweaters.
- Mitchell Tsai
This post may or may not be the reason I added a cashmere sweater to my Elfster wish list. (Lands End, cotton cashmere blend, $24.99 on sale!)
- Corinne L
I came home to the most gorgeous jewelry set from Yoli today. I think it's some of the most beautiful jewelry I've ever seen. Bonus? I've never owned a jewelry set - ever. I love it so much!!
I ordered three with that same shape - one is pink, one white with green and brown, and that one. For work, I'll have to wear a t-shirt under them, but the shape should be good on me. I hope.
- Lix
I love Laura Bots, and how she changes her name is funnehh! And guess who proffered her new latest, "Ell Bee Stinga"? Yeah that's me :) But serioulsy I um, um sorta, you know, feel honored, like being knighted or something. LB's such a positive FF institution <3s her!
She's this New Age agnostic Jew's favorite Baptist. Bar none. Or is that in a bar? Certainly in a coffee shop and definitely in a library.
- Auntie Buttinsky Botts
*hugs errybody* I don't think I've ever been anybody's favorite Baptist before.
- LB so u no it's real
hugs back, Ell Bee Stinga, you're a good person who happens to be a Baptist, not one of those fake moralizing types who cluck their tongues and try to coerce people into conforming to the "right" way through shame, making the "others" feel bad about themselves, or even more insidious they play it through the legal system ie Gay Marriage. So consequently, yes you are my favourite Baptist :D (and now I must go post in the atheist rock room)
- The Real sofarsoShawn
In college... he was a frosh in my dorm. It was quite the scandal & didn't work out, but I held a candle. We're married now :)
- Lo the Baker
from Android
On the internet, in 1994 (when I was 17). We didn't date until 1997, though we grew very close via various text-based channels and had hours-long phone calls every week starting in... 1996, I think.
- Marianne
We met briefly at an outdoor festival that he drove our mutual friend to (this mutual friend was my friend in Canada and his back here in Seattle...we had a series of near-meeting misses in Seattle before we finally connected). But then we re-met a year later at a crazy house party celebrating my impending graduation (along with mutual friend's), moved in together pretty much immediately, and the rest has been history.
- joey
We had desks next to each other. I passed notes over the cubicle wall.
- I like big Botts
from iPhone
He found my blog. Then we meet at SXSW. 3 years later, e became a thing. Two years after that, we got married.
- tiffany
from Android
we met on IRC in '96 via a mutual friend. she was going to uni in NZ and fresh out of a relationship. i was in the middle of one that would soon end rather badly. as i healed up, we got closer. i ended up flying to NZ and staying.
- Joe The Sausage
Through PlentyOfFish.com. Our first meeting and date was at the Metropolis Mall in Plainfield, IN. We watched Iron Man at the cinema and then had a nice dinner at the Stone Creek restaurant.
- Kamilah Reed (K. Gill)
Weird story that only trustworthy sources are privy to know.
- Jyl Bit
from BuddyFeed
In college. I was actually just accompanying a friend on her mission to meet a guy and ended up meeting one myself :)
- adf
Online. On SFNet IRC chat. I actually met twelve guys on it before I found "the one".
- Cristal Blue Persuasion
State of Origin event at a church Under 30's group. I thought he was a snob.
- ☆ Mellyboo ☆
At library school. Living the stereotype ;)
- Pete
I second the motion for more Bubba!
- Lo the Baker
OKCupid. Seems not too original, but boy, did it work out.
- Uli- #10
:) These are great :) Making me smile this morning.
- Anna Lynn M.
At a bar on Halloween...I wasn't even supposed to be there originally...had my friends not forced me to go out I would probably still be living alone in that dumpy house I was renting at the time
- furrworld
The official story (as in the one Wifey's mom knows as gospel) is we met in the lobby of Wifey's building.
- DB - Just DB
We argued about classification in a cat and class lecture. I thought he was an opinionated know-it-all ;-)
- Helensleydale
Real boyfriend: He was supposed to begin dating one of my friends at the time. Glad that didn't work out. :) Fake boyfriend: I thought he was cute on the first day of classes and was ballsy enough to sit next to him and strike up a conversation.
- Colette
He was taking a year off from college and visited that day for his birthday (John Lennon's birthday). I spotted him and asked who he was. I liked him at first sight. The next year he returned to school and we had classes together, did theater together, spent every moment out of class working on plays, rehearsing. We got engaged on New Year's Eve of our senior year and got married right after graduation. Never really had a "date."
- m9m, Crone of FriendFeed
Livejournal. I posted pictures of myself taken during a sunset made vivid because of nearby fires and we realized that we lived in the same area.
- Fikisha
The real version is we met on Yahoo! Personals. She sent me an icebreaker. I responded with a really long winded response and proceeded to not hear back from her. Several weeks later she found me on MySpace (Thankfully I had used the same profile pic in both places). She told me she didn't write back not because she didn't like my response but because she couldn't (free accounts can on only send icebreakers not responses). A big sigh of relief was had by all and we were married a year later.
- DB - Just DB
We are old school high school sweethearts. Met in band class. Marching band bus trips, those were the best.
- Eric
My real story was actually OK Cupid. To hear m'girl tell the story, she read my profile and said "wow, he's not going to get many dates with this profile!" But she fell for me anyhoo. Go figure.
- Bubba Botts
We met in a bar. I asked him if he knew how to dance (2-step) and he said he could "fake the funk". :-D Together 10 years this April.
- Paulette
In a nightclub. My friend's cousin was taking his cousin out to cheer her up as she had just filed for divorce. We talked a lot and barely left each other's side all evening. Started dating a month later; been together 14 years, married for 3.
- Mark H
We were in an anthropology class in 1986. He had a hairy neck and asked probing questions that kept us past the bell. He annoyed me. I am not entirely sure what he thought of me. We eventually became friends as he was a musician and the guy that I ended up marrying was a musician and we all hung out together. We actually became very close friends and he was around when I was pregnant...
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- rochelle rochelle
We were introduced by a mutual friend at a Waffle House when I was home from college for a break. And re-introduced by that same friend when I was home on another break, at a different Waffle House - we had both been complaining to her about the same odd thing, and she figured we should talk to each other about it instead of her. My parents met each other at a Burger King. No kidding.
- Rachel Walden
Fikisha, that's so cool! Livejournal is the only place I made lasting, real relationships online until FF. In fact, met my previous SO on LJ.
- Lo the Baker
We met at the hospital on the first day of his first rotation as a medical student; he was assigned to the unit where I was the supervisor.
- Anne Bouey
13 years, 8 months ago - Random chance on a Seattle IRC channel, met face to face at a mutual friend's party two weeks later. Took me an additional week to figure out his sister was my best friend's girlfriend when I'd moved here & I had pictures of her in my photo album. If we had a buck for how many times we heard 'Oh, I should have known you two would be PERFECT for each other!' from our mutual friends who never bothered introducing us we'd be rich.
- Nikki D.
in grad school for chemistry - I thought he was a jerk at first and he didn't like me either - I would sit in front of him in advanced organic synthesis and pull the chair on the left over to me (I'm left handed and all the desks were right-handed) and he couldn't put his feet up. He was a smoker then and always standing at the communal ashtray near the building entrance. We met in 1990.
- Elizabeth Brown
October 1977. I was in UC Berkeley's library systems office and in charge of the serials data entry system (which I'd designed). She was a copy cataloger working on her MLS. She filled in for the person who, once a week, transferred the data from a mighty 10MB hard disk to a reel of tape to submit to the computer center; the person had told her to call me if there was a problem. There was (a tiny one). I walked her home and we stopped for coffee. (continued)
- Walt Crawford
When I returned from a week's vacation, I asked her out. She accepted. On our first date, I proposed (to my amazement). To her amazement--she was a divorcee and never expected to get married again--she accepted. We got married on January 1, 1978 (too much of a tax hit to do it earlier). We're still going strong...
- Walt Crawford
He was my organizer in the graduate student union in 1996. I actually asked a couple of trusted friends if it was okay to date my "boss" in the context of the union. They said "dooooo eeeeeeet." We joke that our first date was getting arrested together (it wasn't our first date but we did get arrested together.)
- Catherine Pellegrino
Nikki, same here - we eventually discovered that we'd known *many* of the same people for years.
- Rachel Walden
I had a mutual friend fix me up with husband. Husband wasn't so smart and thought I was dating his friend. I called him the next day for a date.
- Janet-The Bottley Crue
We were both in Grad School at CMU. Our buildings were next door and we were often in each others building. We likely crossed paths hundreds of times over a semester but we didn't meet. Not till I him found online. I'd been online dating (match.com) for a while without a lot of luck so I decided to try a different approach and tried a service that was offered by The Onion. I found...
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- Rachel Lea Fox
December 1988. A brunch party at a mutual friend's apartment. My wife was actually there being set up to meet someone else but that obviously didn't work out. It was a crowded party so we probably only chatted for a few minutes. A month or so later, the mutual friend organized another brunch party but this time only three people showed up. So we got to talk quite a bit more and on the...
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- John Dupuis
M and I met in a CS class for non-majors my first semester of college (1991). We then met again in an art history class... but we didn't date until I ran into him again on campus at the beginning of my senior year and he asked for my phone number :) We didn't get married until October 1998.
- Christina Pikas
We met in 2000 as undergrads. We both worked at the Archaeology Research Lab together. His friend invited me to meet them at a bar. I drove him home (when we realized we lived across the street from each other). We never really left each other after that. We went to Hawaii a few months later on spring break (which is when we finally started officially "dating"). He moved in a few months later and proposed a few months later.... 10 years in May!! Wow, what a ride!
- βℜ∀ñÐi
just watch the first one.... which reminds me, I should check that out on blu-ray
- Joe "Brrzzzzzzt" Pierce
I loved the first one. It changed the game for so many movies. A bit like Blade Runner in that respect.
- Zulema ⋅ spicy cocoa tart
from Android
You only need to watch the first one.
- Steven Perez
The mythology established in the first movie is ruined in the other two. Sorta like Star Wars in that its mythology was ruined by the prequels.
- Friar Will (:^)
The Matrix is like Highlander: there should have been only one.
- Joe The Sausage
I saw the Matrix a while after it came out, but it instantly became my favorite movie for a long time.
- <3Heather<3
I really like the second one. Not as much as the first, but it's good. I'd recommend the first, the second, and The Animatrix. The third is a big disappointment all-around.
- Andrew C (✓)
As I loved The Matrix and love Japanese anime, it would seem that I have some more content to go grab and watch. Thanks! :-)
- Mathew A. Koeneker
LB! You won't understand when I say, "ringggg, rrrrrrrinnnng, riiiiiiing.
- Janet-The Bottley Crue
I watched The Matrix last night, after reading this.
- Anika
from FFHound!
You should at least watch the first one.
- AJ Batac :)