AliceTheOwl

Re: Longest Running Thread EVER start without me. I'm going grocery shopping.

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Re: Longest Running Thread EVER You haven't met the cats in question. They ARE dangerous. Projectile shedding is just a drop in the bucket compared to how evil they can be. The younger, Jeff, is plotting something in our bathtub. Every time we go in there lately, he's in there, and glares at us for interrupting whatever he was planning. The elder, Herc (short for Hercules) has learned how to knock on doors. Which is very cute and polite of him, except he likes to do it at 6 am. Sinister, I tell you; just sinister.

Re: Longest Running Thread EVER projectile shedding is my best guess so far.

Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Oooh! Oooh! I know this one! Someone over on the Champions threads keeps posting separate topics for 'What would your character do?" EVERY time he comes up with a new question. It annoys the squirrel a lot. Apparently he asked him to quit it and the guy thumbed his nose at him. In other news . . . Getting a cat hair in your eye REALLY hurts. And makes your eye water like anything. Now if only I could figure out how the hair got from the cat on the bed across the room and into my eye . . .

Re: Longest Running Thread EVER . . . . . . . . So how 'bout them Red Sox?

Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Oh, I do. Just when I'm re-reading my stuff and say, "Oh, that's awful!" I realize that, not being THAT much of a sadist, I can't make anyone else read it, much less pay me for the privilege. And I mean absolutely no offense when I say there's very little you can say to me about writing I haven't already heard. I majored in Creative Writing (and Psychology) in college, I read the blogs of 2 editors, I've read about half of the books out there on the subject, and I talk about the subject whenever I can. You could tell me I could lie about my credentials as a writer, I suppose . . . Oh, wait, no, heard that one, too. But no disrespect intended. Just letting you know where I stand.

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Re: Longest Running Thread EVER I bet. But I respect those in the editing profession far too much to make them read stuff that makes me flinch.

Re: Longest Running Thread EVER I've done several drafts, but am always going back to rewrite it. I've also written lots of short stories, and a lot of novellas and novel-length stuff when I was a lot younger, but I haven't the confidence to actually submit anything. I've read too many editors' blogs, where they rant about the horrible slush they have to wade through. I'm fairly convinced I have nothing on the worst of the slushpile.

Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Pretty? *blushes a deep shade of pink* The book is . . . well, hard to explain without getting into a lot of description. In a sentence, a young woman finds that denial doesn't make things not exist.

Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Mass delusion confirmed. Now, how to use it to my advantage . . .? Oooh! I'll convince them all I can write next, and they'll all buy my book when I'm finally done, and it'll be a bestseller! Muahahahaha.

Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Which? Mine or Josh's? ^ v ^ I do plan on researching this mass delusion that a lot of my friends seem to be sharing.

Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Jeez. As Josh put it, the New York Yankees are pulling a Red Sox: http://mlb.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/nyy/news/nyy_gameday_recap.jsp?ymd=20040831&content_id=843595&vkey=recap&fext=.jsp ^ v ^

Re: A Thread for Random Musings Why are cordless mouses (cordless mice?) designed so that the light on the bottom shines RIGHT into your eyes when you change the batteries?

Re: Longest Running Thread EVER We don't do 'knock-down, drag-out' fights anymore. I used to, but it's no fun when the person you're fighting with shrugs, sighs, then contemplates how it's all his fault.

Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Well. Thank you for the welcomes, everyone. Really, everyone. Always nice to know I registered enough on people's radars enough to be told off. I'm not always as expressive as I was last night on message boards. Which I guess is my way of saying sorry, won't happen again . . . anytime soon, anyway. I did take your advice ('your' meaning 'the several people who suggested it, nicely and otherwise') and comunicated the problem directly to my husband (via e-mail). He knows not to hide things from me, intentionally or not, and I know to e-mail him first about things I'm sensitive about. So if you thought you'd get rid of me that easily, are you in for a surprise.

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Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Not MINE. The thread's.

Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Is the post count sufficiently inflated yet?

Re: Longest Running Thread EVER All I'm sayin' is, my good qualities have been greatly exaggerated. I HATE it when people expect me to be the woman Josh is delusionally convinced he married.