Chat Thread: Chopsticks and teacups

[Gho the Girl]

Hey y'alls. November first I start my cross-continental drive from Rochester, NY to Centralia, WA.

I'm thinking of using route I-90 but I can be flexible and use I-80, I-84 or I-94, depending upon needs and what not.

Basically, if during the first week of November anybody who is on or near one of those highways wants to meet up with me or (pretty pretty pretty please) offer a place to stay and shower for a night, I'd be super really grateful.  

[Bastemhet]

Collowrath

Bastemhet

Does anyone remember where the thread on moral relativism in here went?

Right here.

Thanks! heart  

[Collowrath]

Bastemhet

Collowrath

Bastemhet

Does anyone remember where the thread on moral relativism in here went?

Right here.

Thanks! heart

Welcome. heart  

[Fiddlers Green]

Shearaha

I've been alright. Second job has been keeping me busy, but I love it. I'm hoping to find a full time position doing it, instead of part time. Then I could quit my, now, full time job and get away from some caustic co-workers.

How have you been?

Ah, excellent good, I wish you the best in that. What is the part time job?

I am passing well. Some few minor ailments, almost enough work to make ends meet. Fortunately I have very kind and generous friends.
I was treading some dark waters for awhile, but that is no longer in the present.  

[maenad nuri]

Gho the Girl

Hey y'alls. November first I start my cross-continental drive from Rochester, NY to Centralia, WA.

I'm thinking of using route I-90 but I can be flexible and use I-80, I-84 or I-94, depending upon needs and what not.

Basically, if during the first week of November anybody who is on or near one of those highways wants to meet up with me or (pretty pretty pretty please) offer a place to stay and shower for a night, I'd be super really grateful.

If anything drags you through Bloomington, IL, I can do that.  

[Shearaha]

Gho the Girl

Hey y'alls. November first I start my cross-continental drive from Rochester, NY to Centralia, WA.

I'm thinking of using route I-90 but I can be flexible and use I-80, I-84 or I-94, depending upon needs and what not.

Basically, if during the first week of November anybody who is on or near one of those highways wants to meet up with me or (pretty pretty pretty please) offer a place to stay and shower for a night, I'd be super really grateful.

Both I-90 and I-80 will take you right past me. Literally on I-80. I can't offer a place to crash, as we're still currently living with the mom-in-law, but I'd love to meet for a meal biggrin if you'll be passing through after 5:00, when I'm out of work. You should be around this depressing city by then. Send a PM if you want specifics on where I'm at heart  

[Shearaha]

Fiddlers Green

Ah, excellent good, I wish you the best in that. What is the part time job?

Colony management. I'm responsible for the breeding and maintence of a smallish colony of research mice. We've just been approved for another 200 study mice, so it's growing all the time. Best part is that I make my own schedule. I can come in and do the work whenever it best suits me and as long as it gets done no one cares.

Fiddlers Green

I am passing well. Some few minor ailments, almost enough work to make ends meet. Fortunately I have very kind and generous friends.
I was treading some dark waters for awhile, but that is no longer in the present.

I'm glad that you have good frieds that you can depend on, and that the dark waters have receded.  

[AvalonAuggie]

Soooo for about a day I was considering going to the Pagan Pride fest in Rochester tomorrow because I should stop being a stick in the mud and go out and meet other pagans in person, but a couple of things intervened:
1) I have no transportation/I've got other plans
and
2) I saw on their website that there's going to be a "Lakota Pipe Ceremony" and had a BWHUH?! moment because isn't Lakota a closed culture? didn't they pretty much declare war on New Agers taking aspects of their spirituality?
I cannot readily find solid information on this "White Wolf" fellow. Does anyone here know of him/whether he's actually Lakota or just another plastic shaman?
I don't want to work myself into an outsider-getting-offended-on-native-americans'-behalf hissy fit, but I'm still a little disturbed. confused  

[Fiddlers Green]

Shearaha

Colony management. I'm responsible for the breeding and maintence of a smallish colony of research mice. We've just been approved for another 200 study mice, so it's growing all the time. Best part is that I make my own schedule. I can come in and do the work whenever it best suits me and as long as it gets done no one cares.

Very nice.
Just beware of particularly intelligent ones with larger, rather slow companions.  

[Shearaha]

Fiddlers Green

Shearaha

Colony management. I'm responsible for the breeding and maintence of a smallish colony of research mice. We've just been approved for another 200 study mice, so it's growing all the time. Best part is that I make my own schedule. I can come in and do the work whenever it best suits me and as long as it gets done no one cares.

Very nice.
Just beware of particularly intelligent ones with larger, rather slow companions.

Yup, already had to deal with that once when I first came on the project. I also get to deal with it with other peoples mice all the time.
It never ceases to amaze me how difficult it seams to be for some people to understand that, yes, mice do fight, and no, they won't just stop, so yes, you need to seperate them before they kill each other.  

[Fiddlers Green]

Shearaha

Yup, already had to deal with that once when I first came on the project. I also get to deal with it with other peoples mice all the time.
It never ceases to amaze me how difficult it seams to be for some people to understand that, yes, mice do fight, and no, they won't just stop, so yes, you need to seperate them before they kill each other.

And in all likelihood, the mice's reason for quarrel was more valid than the reason for some of our wars...
That aside, I've watched, over the past month, rodents outsmart humans at least 5 times. And they weren't even laboratory mice... whose genes had been spliced... Pinky, Pinky and the-
Er, anyway.  

[Shearaha]

Fiddlers Green

Shearaha

Yup, already had to deal with that once when I first came on the project. I also get to deal with it with other peoples mice all the time.
It never ceases to amaze me how difficult it seams to be for some people to understand that, yes, mice do fight, and no, they won't just stop, so yes, you need to seperate them before they kill each other.

And in all likelihood, the mice's reason for quarrel was more valid than the reason for some of our wars...
That aside, I've watched, over the past month, rodents outsmart humans at least 5 times. And they weren't even laboratory mice... whose genes had been spliced... Pinky, Pinky and the-
Er, anyway.

rofl You just had me burst out laughing in the middle of my office rofl

In all seriousness, they are far smarter then most humans give them credit for. I had a little escapee live for 6 months in our apartment and we didn't even know he was there. My husband droped him when he was so young, he shouldn't have been able to survive without his mom, but he did. Most intelligent mouse I've met. He avoided the cats by only moving under the base board heater, and under our furniture. They ony caught him once and that's only cause we got up early and let the cats out of the bedroom. I don't think he was expecting that, he was drinking out of the cats water dish.  

[Calixti]

Shearaha, I am intensely jealous of your job, because it sounds awesome. whee

On a different note, how is your username pronounced? I'm mentally pronouncing it shay-RA-hah but I'm not sure that's correct. ^^;  

[Shearaha]

Calixti

Shearaha, I am intensely jealous of your job, because it sounds awesome. whee

On a different note, how is your username pronounced? I'm mentally pronouncing it shay-RA-hah but I'm not sure that's correct. ^^;

It's a fun job, at least the breeding and management portion. The euthanasia and tissue collection, not so much. But every job has it's good and bad parts.

It's pronounched she-ARE-ha, with a slight roll on the R. But I answer to your pronounciation as well wink  

[too2sweet]

When I went to check my guilds, I noticed the PFRC was on the top of the "popular guilds" list!! YAY!!!! biggrin