Bitchin' Blog Posts

Share Your Last Sentence

by SB Sarah | January 06, 2009 | Tuesday at 12:43 pm | 208 Comments

Back in December, New York Magazine had a neat page that featured the writing of people all over Manhattan. The reporters had approached “laptop-using strangers in Starbucks ... and asked them to show us the sentence they were working on.” Cool, huh? The results ranged from cover letters to rap lyrics to essays on gender identity. My favorite was a grad student writing a film. His last sentence: “Navy Seal (Steve).” Go Steve!

So I thought it would be fun to ask you guys: what’s the last sentence you wrote before surfing over here to the hot pink wonder palace of Bitchery? Mine was: “what’s the last sentence you wrote before surfing over here to the hot pink wonder palace of Bitchery?” (It’s not very interesting if I play along, is it?)

 

Filed: But...that's not really about romance novels, Fun And Games, General Bitching, The Link-O-Lator

Tagged: writing, magazine

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  1. God said on 01.06.09 at 12:55 PM • [comment link]

    “Sometimes closing has its ups.”

    Not terribly clever or interesting, but there ya go.

  2. Dena Hankins said on 01.06.09 at 01:44 PM • [comment link]

    The doctor was on her tea break.

    Not the best sentence in the batch, but I got stuck there.  Describing the Indian public hospital experience is challenging…

  3. Cat Marsters said on 01.06.09 at 02:03 PM • [comment link]

    He was clean, and he was naked.

    Hee.

  4. Minze said on 01.06.09 at 02:21 PM • [comment link]

    Sie hat viermal reingebissen und jedes Mal das Gesicht verzogen.

  5. Wendy said on 01.06.09 at 02:28 PM • [comment link]

    Oh dear…“The auctioneer and agent should congratulate the winning bidder and thank the other bidders.”

    If you’d asked me yesterday, when I wasn’t working on a real estate training manual, it would have been a bit cooler: “Simon flicked his fingers, Hal sent back a hand gesture, and two of the men dived amongst the milling regimental colours and pulled out a soldier who may or may not have been the miscreant, but who was going to pay the price all the same.”

  6. Catherine said on 01.06.09 at 02:29 PM • [comment link]

    Definitely one of my more impressive spreads, judging by the remarks I got!

    Sadly, it’s not a proper sentence, grammatically speaking.  But this is what happens when I start discussing food in the comments page of my blog…

  7. Anna V said on 01.06.09 at 02:34 PM • [comment link]

    We still don’t have our second mail out let alone our first mail out so that we can have our democratic say on the great grand wheely bin issue.

  8. Bronwyn Parry said on 01.06.09 at 02:34 PM • [comment link]

    He slid the pans into the water, dribbled fresh detergent on them and recommenced scrubbing. Hard.

    Okay, that’s technically two sentences. But you might have got the wrong impression if I’d just put the last one in ;-)

  9. Storm Grant said on 01.06.09 at 02:43 PM • [comment link]

    He wondered if he’d find the scent of airline deodorizers arousing for the rest of his life.

  10. Eva Lynn said on 01.06.09 at 03:10 PM • [comment link]

    Don’t wanna end up in solitary.

    Most of these are amusing me, one way or another.

  11. Keri Ford said on 01.06.09 at 03:23 PM • [comment link]

    I’ve been a little too free with myself, so you’ll get lots of things from me.

    It was in an email, reminding the other ladies that blog with me of our Beauty Don’t Go There’s for next week’s group topic.

  12. Faellie said on 01.06.09 at 03:27 PM • [comment link]

    If not, this attempt by HR to impose a change in contractual conditions contrary to Chapter 1 of the Staff Handbook seems a pretty clear breach of legal rights, and a breach of faith with unions and employees, which needs to be stamped on hard.

  13. Christina said on 01.06.09 at 03:36 PM • [comment link]

    Facebook status update: Christina doesn’t want to go out into the cold.

  14. Fae Sutherland said on 01.06.09 at 03:38 PM • [comment link]

    You’ll all blog me, right??

    Me, asking my Twitter buddies to blog my new EC book when it releases tomorrow.  :D I’m not above shameless begging for extra promo from my friends.

  15. J L Wilson said on 01.06.09 at 03:44 PM • [comment link]

    His formerly icy blue eyes were now hazy, like a summer sky in the morning. “Love can make a man do unusual things.”

    (from my WIP, the Oz book)

  16. R. F. Long said on 01.06.09 at 03:46 PM • [comment link]

    “And don’t come back.”

    90% of the way through my WIP.

  17. Jenyfer Matthews said on 01.06.09 at 03:48 PM • [comment link]

    Do you have any birthday traditions? As long as it doesn’t involve hitting, pinching, or otherwise abusing the birthday person, I’d love to hear how you celebrate.

    From a blog post on birthday traditions from around the world which I will have up on my own blog over the weekend - celebrating my very own birthday.

  18. Ashwinder said on 01.06.09 at 03:54 PM • [comment link]

    Yes, but can you imagine the snarky reply?

  19. Barb Ferrer said on 01.06.09 at 03:59 PM • [comment link]

    Geek that I am, I also find it an interesting parallel that he took over from Baker, the most popular Doctor to date at that point.

    *shakes head at absolute geekery of that sentence*

  20. WendyC said on 01.06.09 at 04:02 PM • [comment link]

    The thought that “this wasn’t so bad” was the last thing to cross his mind before he fell asleep to the sound and feel of Sam’s breathing.

  21. Jessica Andersen said on 01.06.09 at 04:08 PM • [comment link]

    The phrase ‘In consistent with’ is nondescriptive; please replace with with either ‘Consistent with’ (if the prior results agree with your present findings) or ‘Inconsistent with’ (if the prior and present results do not agree).

    In my own defense, that’s from a scientific editing job, *not* one of the books

    .

  22. Lorelie said on 01.06.09 at 04:20 PM • [comment link]

    ATRM report, as requested.


    *Sigh*  The day job’s so freaking boring.

  23. jmc said on 01.06.09 at 04:20 PM • [comment link]

    Oh, I hope that was just a twitter typo.

    Referring to the twitter news that Alex Deleon of The Cab just got a tattoo that reads “Symphony Solider”.  Solider?

  24. katiebabs said on 01.06.09 at 04:23 PM • [comment link]

    If I asked Satan a question, would he answer? This is on Twitter. lol

  25. Ocy said on 01.06.09 at 04:29 PM • [comment link]

    Then again, his involvement in Katya’s disappearance was perhaps not the most logical choice.

    This is too much fun.  I love the variety.

  26. Charlene said on 01.06.09 at 04:32 PM • [comment link]

    Despite all this, he will always be remembered for sneaking aphrodisiac sausages into the Carter White House.

  27. Shaunee said on 01.06.09 at 04:33 PM • [comment link]

    Must I?

    Response to the request:  Meet me at Planet Fattness @ 3 so that we can uselessly slog our guts out on the treadmill together.

  28. Eve Savage said on 01.06.09 at 04:39 PM • [comment link]

    “I’m beginning to HATE this woman.”

    Sent at the end of a forwarded email from a complainer!!!

  29. Julia Spencer-Fleming said on 01.06.09 at 04:42 PM • [comment link]

    “Was that your version of sweeping me off my feet?”
    “Trying…” he sucked in air, “...romantic.”

  30. JoanneL said on 01.06.09 at 04:44 PM • [comment link]

    You’re an idiot. Love, Mom

    to my bachelor son who tossed his shower curtain & bought a new one because the old one needed washing.
    Who the hell raised him?

  31. Elizabeth Wadsworth said on 01.06.09 at 04:44 PM • [comment link]

    Then I thought of the photographs in Russell’s coat pocket, and my stomach clenched.”

    From the penultimate chapter of my WIP.

  32. Erin said on 01.06.09 at 04:47 PM • [comment link]

    Last sentence on my blog last night:

    When a girl stabs a boy with a scissor and kicks him in the balls and receives no consequences, it sends the message that they can get away with anything.

  33. Julia Spencer-Fleming said on 01.06.09 at 04:47 PM • [comment link]

    Oops. That was two sentences. In my defense, I always think of statement + response in dialogue as one unit. Kind of like Sicilian billionaire + virgin mistress.

  34. Tina S said on 01.06.09 at 04:53 PM • [comment link]

    She watches as he walks closer, and when he’s in front of her, he slides his hands around to the back of her head and leans forward to kiss her.

    From one of my fanfics.

  35. catburglar said on 01.06.09 at 04:59 PM • [comment link]

    Like the Heroic Slave, Green claims to be more American than Americans themselves.

    From the outline of my next paper.

  36. Ciar Cullen said on 01.06.09 at 05:06 PM • [comment link]

    “I don’t know why you are using that account—it’s been closed since the end of the fiscal year.”

    Not part of my current WIP.

  37. Shiloh Walker said on 01.06.09 at 05:06 PM • [comment link]

    Man, why couldn’t I have come on this one AFTER I did some writing today?

    But nope…had to be right before I get started.

    My last sentence was:

    I don’t want to complicate things for you all.

  38. KL said on 01.06.09 at 05:08 PM • [comment link]

    The rest of the world thinks they’re ridiculous too.

    In response to a twitter about a band.

  39. Angelia Sparrow said on 01.06.09 at 05:13 PM • [comment link]

    “Drop!” ordered Marian.

    It’s from an airship battle scene in a steampunk Robin Hood

  40. Babs said on 01.06.09 at 05:13 PM • [comment link]

    “Thanks much.”

  41. JenTurner said on 01.06.09 at 05:16 PM • [comment link]

    “Lydia tells me no vampire,” he paused to squish the piece of gum between his fingers then popped it into his mouth, “regardless of age or size, can look menacing while chewing bubble gum.”

    Last sentence I wrote for my WIP before I decided to take a break and see what tha Bitches were up to.

  42. Cat said on 01.06.09 at 05:16 PM • [comment link]

    “Those are the ones that will be the scariest.”

  43. Marilyn said on 01.06.09 at 05:24 PM • [comment link]

    I’m sorry, but I just don’t think monkey shit is funny.

    I should probably find that embarrassing, but oddly enough, I don’t.

  44. sadieloree said on 01.06.09 at 05:28 PM • [comment link]

    I’m picking it up today!

    (Specifically referring to Anya Bast’s Witch Heart)

  45. Goblin said on 01.06.09 at 05:38 PM • [comment link]

    I mean, that is kinda cool, but you acted like it should give you rock star status.

  46. Mara said on 01.06.09 at 05:38 PM • [comment link]

    Thank you for being you.

  47. sororitysheep said on 01.06.09 at 05:39 PM • [comment link]

    “Free shipping in continental US.”

    Siiiiiiigh. Workity work.

  48. karmelrio said on 01.06.09 at 05:41 PM • [comment link]

    “The meeting’s only agenda item is to discuss feedback to

    .”

    Yes, it’s boring.

  49. karmelrio said on 01.06.09 at 05:48 PM • [comment link]

    I keep forgetting that brackets are perceived to be HTML tags and don’t show up…

    The sentence in the previous post should read…  “The meeting’s only agenda item is to discuss feedback to (name of technical document omitted) .” 

    Carry on!

  50. Sarabeth said on 01.06.09 at 05:48 PM • [comment link]

    What she wanted was a hole, filled with wine, and a bucket of fried chicken. She’d pass on the sides tonight.

    From a Southern-themed contemporary romance.

  51. Suze said on 01.06.09 at 05:49 PM • [comment link]

    Not writing yet (sitting at home, wet hair up in turban, girding my loins to go out and start my car, OH how I wish I had remote start), but the last thing I did before surfing on over was to pre-order Beyond Heaving Bosoms.

  52. MamaNice said on 01.06.09 at 05:49 PM • [comment link]

    Last night my husband was so fed up he made her wear mittens all evening!

    On my Moms’ board about my daughter’s new nail-biting habit.

  53. Theresa Meyers said on 01.06.09 at 05:50 PM • [comment link]

    Don’t know who’s currently updating the sidebar for the blog, but is there a chance I can put an updated photo and a new blurb for the upcoming book?

    What can I say, trying to get work and email done in the early am before going off to teach second graders…but had to check the Smart Bitches for my morning dose before I leave the keyboard.

  54. Carmen said on 01.06.09 at 05:55 PM • [comment link]

    Both are on their way to you right now - the drivers were dispatched at 6:30, so they should be there by 9 am.

  55. Kes said on 01.06.09 at 05:56 PM • [comment link]

    He was a member of the First Universalist Church of Southold, the Southold Historical Society, and volunteered for many years at Kingswood Campsite in Hancock, NY, where he was undisputed master of the waterlines.

    Revising my dad’s obituary.

    word: hospital29 = feels like I spent 29 days running to the hospital.

  56. Darlene Marshall said on 01.06.09 at 05:57 PM • [comment link]

    Still have my pup’s company.

  57. AbbyT said on 01.06.09 at 06:00 PM • [comment link]

    “No sh*t, Sherlock”.

    It was a comment in Google Reader to this story: Library Use Grows in Recession

  58. MaryKate said on 01.06.09 at 06:11 PM • [comment link]

    Jim will be accepting separate donations for a going away gift for Sean.

    For a coworker’s last day party. It’s all glamor, all the time with my job.

  59. SB Sarah said on 01.06.09 at 06:12 PM • [comment link]

    Kes: my condolences on the loss of your father.

  60. Angela James said on 01.06.09 at 06:15 PM • [comment link]

    I thought it was a good article.

    ^from an IM conversation.

  61. hollygee said on 01.06.09 at 06:15 PM • [comment link]

    If I’m not counting ‘carrots’ and ‘lettuce’ on the shopping list, this:

    I will feel more comfortable if I know that I’m not blindly offending anyone (whereas I’m totally comfortable offending on purpose ;-)

  62. Jill Shalvis said on 01.06.09 at 06:16 PM • [comment link]

    He stepped over the threshold, then turned back to something—but she shut the door in his face.

  63. Becky said on 01.06.09 at 06:17 PM • [comment link]

    The crowd may have been quiet because it was an excellent movie, but I bet the lack of kids and teens helped a lot.

  64. Elizabeth said on 01.06.09 at 06:18 PM • [comment link]

    “If you have an unusual last name (and you can tell if it’s unusual if every time you’ve ever given it to someone they ask you to spell it) and you leave a message for a person asking them to get you something then for the love of god DON’T MUMBLE and SPELL YOUR NAME.”

    I am, um, at work and ranting on my own blog. Because people are dumb.

  65. stormsandsins said on 01.06.09 at 06:20 PM • [comment link]

    “Some of us don’t need pages and pages to get to the point.”

    From one of my current WIPs. And it’s so ironic considering another one of my WIPs stands strong at 70K+ words ;)

  66. Anna the Piper said on 01.06.09 at 06:21 PM • [comment link]

    I wrote this: “And it makes me grit my teeth that the people who make that calendar apparently feel they can make enough money off of it to justify its existence—‘cause yeah, there are those who would eat it right up.”

  67. Chicklet said on 01.06.09 at 06:22 PM • [comment link]

    “You know what else has antioxidants? The chocolate in the turtle cake.”

    (From a response to the suggestion that my friends’ next Girls’ Doctor Who Night feature healthy snacks. RESOLUTIONS ARE FOR SUCKERS!)

  68. Lucinda Betts said on 01.06.09 at 06:24 PM • [comment link]

    Don’t fight dirty.

  69. Diana Hunter said on 01.06.09 at 06:27 PM • [comment link]

    “Your thesis is implied rather than explicit.”

    Wish I weren’t at my day job to do this.

  70. Heather said on 01.06.09 at 06:29 PM • [comment link]

    “Did I get a packet of information in the mail in the last month from Walker?”

    Lots of work fun here.

  71. Leslie H said on 01.06.09 at 06:33 PM • [comment link]

    ‘Too late. Joanna Lumley already did that!’

    Re: The new DR WHO just announced. He played some part in drag. My friend said now she was visualizing the Dr in a dress.

    Joanna Lumley played the Doctor (Yes she did!) in Comic Relief’s “Doctor Who: The Curse of Fatal Death”

    BTW Rowan Atkinson was the BEST Doctor of all time and I have seen them ALL.

  72. elianara said on 01.06.09 at 06:51 PM • [comment link]

    oj, de låter roligt

    translation: hey, that sounds fun

  73. Lori said on 01.06.09 at 06:52 PM • [comment link]

    Per the email below I am requesting a student fee waiver.

    Such is the life of a grad student.

  74. JennyOH said on 01.06.09 at 07:05 PM • [comment link]

    I think Eugenia Price is well-known enough that a big biographical panel, as with Majette, is not totally necessary.

    I’m working on an exhibit outline.

  75. Leslie Dicken said on 01.06.09 at 07:08 PM • [comment link]

    “I’m sure there is.”

    IM’ing with a friend, who said she noticed an improvement in her writing skills.

  76. Madd said on 01.06.09 at 07:10 PM • [comment link]

    Mine was:

    Do I need to be hiding in a bath tub with the baby or did they just botch a monthly test?

  77. Jennifer Armintrout said on 01.06.09 at 07:12 PM • [comment link]

    “The shapes of Faeries could be seen moving against the light within.”

    Current WIP that is finally picking up momentum.

  78. Jennifer Armintrout said on 01.06.09 at 07:13 PM • [comment link]

    Oh, and Barb Ferrer, I know what you were talking about and Matt just doesn’t seem to have that same charisma that Peter did!

  79. dangrgirl said on 01.06.09 at 07:15 PM • [comment link]

    Leslie is the best crit partner, evah. Here’s mine:

    “Burn it.”

    (the line before was “Domek, what should we do with the body?”)

  80. Madd said on 01.06.09 at 07:16 PM • [comment link]

    I should probably add that my tv had just flashed me a civil emergency message as the sirens in my town started to go off. When I switched to the info channel posted on the civil emergency message there was a novela on. No info there and there was nothing on local channels. Then the man calls and asks if there is a test or an emergency going on and I tell him what happened. Then I went and posted about it on twitter, which is where the last sentence came in.

  81. JenB said on 01.06.09 at 07:19 PM • [comment link]

    “Insured does not have coverage for water damage.”

    Fascinating, no?

  82. Victoria Dahl said on 01.06.09 at 07:21 PM • [comment link]

    Last line was a Twitter: “Then again, Mystery Science Theater is on.”

  83. MzSpell said on 01.06.09 at 07:42 PM • [comment link]

    Ah, well, tomato soup next week, then…

    In response to an email from my mum with a lovely tomato bisque recipe attached.

  84. Jenna said on 01.06.09 at 07:43 PM • [comment link]

    I think it’s a cunning plan!

    Response to a Livejournal comment. My friend’s response was another Blackadder quote. I &heart; my friends.

  85. Miss Monky said on 01.06.09 at 08:00 PM • [comment link]

    I officially have strep throat…LAME.

  86. Jody W. said on 01.06.09 at 08:03 PM • [comment link]

    The drive is 35-45 minutes, barring traffic.

    Deciding, via email, on a lunch location.

  87. BevQB said on 01.06.09 at 08:06 PM • [comment link]

    So which Andrei version do YOU prefer Kristie?

    A man candy discussion… what else?

  88. Becky Ann said on 01.06.09 at 08:12 PM • [comment link]

    Since I got to come in to work late this morning the last thing I wrote was right before bed.

    3. Club Dead - C. Harris

    I’m trying to keep a journal of all the new books that I read this year. (I’ve decided comfort rereading doesn’t count or I wouldn’t be on #3.)

    “minutes44”: about how long I’ve been at work so far, but still 8 hours to go.

  89. Brenda said on 01.06.09 at 08:12 PM • [comment link]

    “Turn around and look southeast to see Orion and his two dogs rising.”

  90. Carin said on 01.06.09 at 08:15 PM • [comment link]

    Whatever.

    (I know it’s not technically a sentence, but it is the last one I wrote.)

  91. chrocs said on 01.06.09 at 08:20 PM • [comment link]

    “guey, si tengo entrenamiento a las 3, entonces no hay purrum si nos vamos antes?”
    shockingly bad spelling, punctuation and grammar…

  92. KristenMary said on 01.06.09 at 08:22 PM • [comment link]

    “Let’s take some pictures to document their condition.”

    It could be fun but its to make sure we don’t get caught with our pants down again on a customer return.

  93. Val said on 01.06.09 at 08:23 PM • [comment link]

    “Two approximately parallel cracks were visible in the flange fillets on opposites sides of the attaching clavicle of the submitted rear strut eye.”

    Sorry, I do failure analysis of aircraft engines and technical writing is part of my job. That dry kind of writing is PRECISELY why I have a rabbid need of this site.

  94. darlynne said on 01.06.09 at 08:23 PM • [comment link]

    “Make my day, Brian, and check out the supreme idiocy that has publishers charging MORE for ebook editions of paperback books than the paperback itself sells for. Idiots. “

  95. Megan said on 01.06.09 at 08:28 PM • [comment link]

    “Stupid criminal files!”

  96. Delia said on 01.06.09 at 08:31 PM • [comment link]

    “This is the skin of a Time Traveller, Bella!”

    Someone made the comparison of Matt Smith to RPattz despite the fact that one has eyebrows and the other doesn’t, and it spawned a looooong thread of what could be The Doctor and Companion going through the stalking-and-scaring-through-the-woods scene from Twilight.

    Also, I am amused that my verify code has the word TEN in it and my sentence is re: Doctor Who.

  97. ijinx said on 01.06.09 at 08:34 PM • [comment link]

    Here you go; last sentence.

    Ugga, Ugga, meine Damen.

  98. Elise said on 01.06.09 at 08:37 PM • [comment link]

    I wonder how many classes I took in college where the professor had no idea what the class would be like a week before it started….


    Because I’m teaching a class that starts next week, and I have no idea what I’m going to be teaching.

  99. Renee Somebody said on 01.06.09 at 08:38 PM • [comment link]

    “Do you have a title picked out for when you take over the world? I have a hard time settling on just the right one, though Empress has a nice ring…”

  100. lijakaca said on 01.06.09 at 08:44 PM • [comment link]

    “Do you know where the bonuses come through for the (XXX) team under (my department)?”

    Um yeah, not interesting. Such is the life of an accountant.

  101. Jessa Slade said on 01.06.09 at 08:45 PM • [comment link]

    The $50k reduction still won’t help much so I recommend

    And then the other computer finished booting up so I started surfing instead.  I’ll get back to day job in a moment.

    *although95*  Nope.  A $95k reduction won’t help either.

  102. Silver James said on 01.06.09 at 08:47 PM • [comment link]

    Katherine’s tirade left her targets eviscerated, bleeding figuratively if not literally.

    And now I need to go deal with the “clean up on aisle four.”

  103. Leslie said on 01.06.09 at 08:48 PM • [comment link]

    Maybe even video!

  104. Kimberly said on 01.06.09 at 08:58 PM • [comment link]

    “I’ve been standing here trying to pick a headscarf for an hour, probably won’t make it to the grocery store for at least another two.”

    Response to my husband’s text message about me picking up something for dinner last night. I’ve recently started wearing a head scarf and I spend more time trying to pick which one to wear than I do picking out my actual clothes! 0.~

  105. BethanyA said on 01.06.09 at 09:07 PM • [comment link]

    “That’s the best part about eating 6 times a day!”

    Me in an email on returning to Medifast.  For.  The. Last. Time.

  106. theo said on 01.06.09 at 09:09 PM • [comment link]

    He responded by settling further into the mattress.

    Revising WIP

  107. theo said on 01.06.09 at 09:10 PM • [comment link]

    And Kes! I’m so sorry for your loss.

  108. Suze said on 01.06.09 at 09:15 PM • [comment link]

    Okay, I’m working now.  My last sentence:

    Too much information: always better than not enough.

    In an e-mail to my team who are failing to annotate multiple changes to individual accounts, forcing me to spend hours back-tracking to find out why we did what we did.

  109. Elizabeth Wadsworth said on 01.06.09 at 09:18 PM • [comment link]

    Joanna Lumley played the Doctor (Yes she did!) in Comic Relief’s “Doctor Who: The Curse of Fatal Death”
    BTW Rowan Atkinson was the BEST Doctor of all time and I have seen them ALL

    When did Atkinson play the Doctor?  I always thought he’d be perfect in the role, but heard nothing about this.

  110. Keira from LoveRomancePassion said on 01.06.09 at 09:23 PM • [comment link]

    From my romance/fantasy story that I am working on…

    I’m not sure what got through and what didn’t but suddenly his mouth was on mine, fierce, demanding, and hot.

  111. KeriM said on 01.06.09 at 09:24 PM • [comment link]

    “Lisa, if anybody needs the test loop, I am finished with it for the day.”

    Work is so grand! :-)

  112. Leah said on 01.06.09 at 09:26 PM • [comment link]

    Greg could turn out to be worse, and then I’d be back where I started—alone.

    Chapter 17 of the WIP.  3 more to go!

    So sorry for the loss of your father, Kes—the excerpt from the obituary was very nice.


    spam word:  right78 I DID start writing in 1978—so weird!

  113. Sugarless said on 01.06.09 at 09:37 PM • [comment link]

    so I’m not sure if I worked on my program notes or messaged my friend last. It’s either:

    “The simplicity of the undulating accompaniment and the surprising intervals and cadences both display a musical maturity at odds with his young age.”

    or

    “He looks like such an emo kid, I knew you’d eat him up :-p” (about the new Doctor)

  114. Galadriel said on 01.06.09 at 09:37 PM • [comment link]

    Good thing no one was dressed as an orc, then, hmm?

    Er, it was a comment to a friend about a party she’d been to for Tolkien’s 117th birthday. *cough*

  115. inez kelley said on 01.06.09 at 09:52 PM • [comment link]

    “Get your nose out of my crotch!”

  116. CourtneyLee said on 01.06.09 at 09:54 PM • [comment link]

    It just figures that my usually reliable Target is having an idiot week.

    In reference to my shopping trip to get a land line phone and DAWNKEEPERS by Doc Jess. They had the phone I wanted, but not the book, which releases today. Grr.

    come99: 99 times? Seriously? That’s gotta hurt…

  117. Zoe Archer said on 01.06.09 at 09:54 PM • [comment link]

    His body shifted, reformed into his wolf, running first on two feet and then four.

  118. Kayleigh said on 01.06.09 at 10:04 PM • [comment link]

    I know I’m not pretty but I’m secure enough in my unattractive state to be happy with myself.

  119. Venus Vaughn said on 01.06.09 at 10:04 PM • [comment link]

    The last instruction had barely left Terran’s mouth when he went back to staring at Antonia with a longing that was uncomfortable to watch.

  120. Anastasia said on 01.06.09 at 10:07 PM • [comment link]

    “I am still spending upwards of $100 on textbooks each semester and it’s getting tiring.” (Trying to write a post for my blog about electronic textbooks.)

  121. Keladry said on 01.06.09 at 10:09 PM • [comment link]

    She turned her face into the wind and walked towards the upper garden, its wildness and chaos suiting her temper at the moment.

    It’s about 1/3 of the way done, I think.  One of my many fanfiction WIPs.

  122. Gemma said on 01.06.09 at 10:16 PM • [comment link]

    we took the chq to [the other bank] by hand with the relevant paperwork, the service centre paperwork was sent to Glasgow SC by TNT that night with a note saying the chq was hand-delivered, I suggest you check with Glasgow SC

    —passing the buck while at work earlier

    Condolences to Kes.

  123. Wendy said on 01.06.09 at 10:36 PM • [comment link]

    “I’ll let you know if I run out of labels.” 

    ...agh.  work.  You know, the sort that pays me, rather than the kind that keeps me sane.  I envy everyone writing creative things right now.

  124. Diane Whiddon-Brown said on 01.06.09 at 10:42 PM • [comment link]

    That’s got to mean something.

    Working on the latest blog post about writing and fear.

  125. Lizzy said on 01.06.09 at 10:48 PM • [comment link]

    @Elizabeth Wadsworth:
    It was a spoof.
    Here’s a YouTube link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xkZhAtjT8U

    Jonathan Pryce does his best Fu Manchu work here. Or is he doing Meleficent? The man is an artist; maybe he’s both.

  126. J Davis said on 01.06.09 at 10:54 PM • [comment link]

    Love You Mom

  127. Randi said on 01.06.09 at 10:56 PM • [comment link]

    “Oh Sure. No Problem. ;)”

  128. Laura K. Curtis said on 01.06.09 at 10:57 PM • [comment link]

    Travis took the wheel back from Nash and a moment later Callie heard the sound of helicopter rotors over the engine.

    First draft/narrative outline of WIP.

  129. El said on 01.06.09 at 11:03 PM • [comment link]

    “Is the rest of Briggs’ backlist in print?”

    Note to myself—I’ve just finished rereading Patricia Briggs’ werewolf novels (next one is due out in four weeks) and am considering (re)reading her others, of which I’m missing a couple.

  130. samq said on 01.06.09 at 11:03 PM • [comment link]

    He felt her arms flutter uselessly at her sides and knew he had only a few moments to urge her, to use the knowledge he had of her body, her responses, before she found a way to push him back and break away.

    —uh, can we say rough draft of romance…

  131. patsy said on 01.06.09 at 11:09 PM • [comment link]

    11, but this is a conversation for which I would willingly disturb my regular sleep schedule.

  132. K-chan said on 01.06.09 at 11:18 PM • [comment link]

    So that’s where my remote is. . .(I already knew about my coat).

  133. Maggie Moony said on 01.06.09 at 11:27 PM • [comment link]

    “I’d love a postcard from Norway/Iceland/Greenland!”

    From a email to a friend studying abroad.

  134. Gail said on 01.06.09 at 11:33 PM • [comment link]

    Everyone is encouraged to wear red to show their support for the fight against heart disease.

    Yeah. Just sticking stuff in the newspaper computer. I actually had to write that sentence, rather than just rearranging other people’s…

    Dayjob’s not as boring as some…

    Now, before I left off the WiP to come to the dayjob… I think that sentence might have been… Hmm…

    The streets on the map could be clearly seen through Galloway’s hand, since it was mostly transparent.

    Almost to the final battle… Wish me luck!

    Codeword: since76

    I have actually been married since ‘76…

  135. Julianna said on 01.06.09 at 11:42 PM • [comment link]

    We’d like to have them as soon as is convenient, as the trip is quite soon!

    Ah, the art of polite nagging.

  136. blueviolin said on 01.06.09 at 11:44 PM • [comment link]

    “In groups, she displays a talent for leadership, but also recognizes when to let another take the lead.”

    I’m writing a letter of recommendation.  It’s not going so well.

    Also, I’m amused by how many Doctor Who references I read in the comments.  That new emo boy sure has the internets in a tizzy.  I’m glad I decided to stop watching the show at the last finale.  It felt like the best time to give up on a show that will never have a happy ending.

  137. Lissa said on 01.06.09 at 11:59 PM • [comment link]

    Per GS - meets all XXXX standards and specs for this practice.


    Yeah - work is fun.

  138. Eva_baby said on 01.07.09 at 12:29 AM • [comment link]

    Can you make it a bit bigger and there is a line under it that needs to go away.

    Speaking with my Info technology tech who is setting up my electronic signature to automatically print on some official documents

  139. Rene S said on 01.07.09 at 12:29 AM • [comment link]

    “Go ahead,” he said.  “It won’t burn you.”

  140. SonomaLass said on 01.07.09 at 12:37 AM • [comment link]

    If you need disability-related accommodations for this class, please provide the Authorization for Academic Accommodations (AAA letter) from the Disability Resources Department (DRD) to me as soon as possible.

    I actually cut and pasted it from the previous semester’s syllabus, but that’s mostly what I’m doing today in the way of “writing.”

    The new Doctor sure is young!  It will be interesting to see what that does to the dynamic of the show.  I will miss David Tennant, but then I missed Christopher Eccleston, too.  Sigh.

  141. Carrie Lofty said on 01.07.09 at 12:40 AM • [comment link]

    Appropriate after my three weeks holiday in England: Sorry I wasn’t able to get to it over the break.

    Ah, the poetry of email.

  142. Carrie Lofty said on 01.07.09 at 12:42 AM • [comment link]

    Barb wrote:

    Geek that I am, I also find it an interesting parallel that he took over from Baker, the most popular Doctor to date at that point. *shakes head at absolute geekery of that sentence*

    Celebrate your Doctor geekery! I heart Tennant.

  143. Sherri D. said on 01.07.09 at 12:48 AM • [comment link]

    I’m just happy he’ll be wrestling and not sitting in the stands
    with his arm around her.—Discussing my daughters first “date”. God help me!

  144. molly_rose said on 01.07.09 at 12:48 AM • [comment link]

    “I am critical of the delineating actions the article suggests, and would rather see more connections fostered through community-engaged learning activites provided for individuals; but the significance of this as both limiting and enabling will be taken into consideration for future projects.”

  145. theo said on 01.07.09 at 12:50 AM • [comment link]

    Hang in there Sherri D. It only gets worse from here!!

  146. Miss Moppet said on 01.07.09 at 12:56 AM • [comment link]

    I took you all over the place and gave you presents from every room.

  147. kris10powell said on 01.07.09 at 01:09 AM • [comment link]

    Am I being too conservative insisting that homestead be clarified?

  148. SusannaG said on 01.07.09 at 01:17 AM • [comment link]

    For that type of book, that’s BAD.

    It was a review of Dan Brown’s Angels and Demons.  All about why I couldn’t finish it - I was too bored.

  149. CM said on 01.07.09 at 01:22 AM • [comment link]

    You sent me the wrong version of the draft.

    An email to my secretary.

    letters31

  150. nancy said on 01.07.09 at 01:47 AM • [comment link]

    “If so, I’m interested in the spitz.”

    It’s about dogs! Really!

  151. ms bookjunkie said on 01.07.09 at 01:56 AM • [comment link]

    Jenny with a Y and not an I as in my address list.

  152. Rebecca Hb. said on 01.07.09 at 02:13 AM • [comment link]

    Also, god, I am talking like Screw.

    OOC observation on a MUSH where I really am picking up my character’s speech-quirks.

  153. Melissandre said on 01.07.09 at 02:46 AM • [comment link]

    “Describe Edwin’s personality.”

    The last thing I remember writing is a prompting question in my teacher’s textbook.  We are reading a story about Edwin Booth discovering his brother just assassinated the president.  That has to suck.

  154. Dee Carney said on 01.07.09 at 02:46 AM • [comment link]

    “Don’t ever doubt us.”

    From my current WIP. Very intense scene between H/h…. :D

  155. La Reine Noire said on 01.07.09 at 02:52 AM • [comment link]

    This more passive characterisation is in fact closer to Hall’s account, where the conspirators act with the Queen’s ‘permissiõ, and fauor’, but she is not directly involved in the murder.

    Also, much giggling at all the Eleventh Doctor discussion. I’m rather looking forward to him after having seen him in a few things, though I will miss David Tennant.

  156. Liz W said on 01.07.09 at 02:54 AM • [comment link]

    Not counting the LJ update about my antivirus software…

    Clark knew he was probably going to catch hell for this in the morning, but at the moment, it seemed a small price to pay.

    From a short fanfic I wrote the other night.

  157. Sharon Buchbinder said on 01.07.09 at 03:03 AM • [comment link]

    “Thanks for the wonderful Borders’ Gift Card. I can’t WAIT to use it.”

    And, I must add, I will be using it on YOUR new book!

  158. hope101 said on 01.07.09 at 03:12 AM • [comment link]

    “That one principle alone is the gold, as far as I’m concerned.”

    And now you’ll all just have to wonder what I was writing about…

    (Actually, it’s about caloric density on a health forum I frequent.)

  159. Kwana said on 01.07.09 at 03:29 AM • [comment link]

    Oh No, it was a text:  “I’m buying Jack food.”  So not interesting.

  160. Jennifer Ator said on 01.07.09 at 03:36 AM • [comment link]

    what arrangements have you made including flight and hotel?

  161. appomattoxco said on 01.07.09 at 03:51 AM • [comment link]

    My demon h explains she tossed her latest romance novel away in disgust because it was neither urban or fantasy.
    “It’s about a soccer mom that slays vampires!”

  162. Noelle said on 01.07.09 at 04:00 AM • [comment link]

    Unfortunately we won’t be staying with you this trip but hope to sometime in the future.

  163. Jill said on 01.07.09 at 04:18 AM • [comment link]

    Thanks, Nancy. I added this site to my favorites. I found a Crusie in the Later/Rumor list taht I never heard of.

  164. bookgirl20 said on 01.07.09 at 04:20 AM • [comment link]

    And I’m not talking about considering yourself a ‘woman’ either!

    My first SBTB comment ever. I couldn’t resist the last sentence challenge.

  165. Angela said on 01.07.09 at 04:42 AM • [comment link]

    “I have to taste you.  Now Angel.”

    Yeah.  Okay.  2 sentences.  LOL.

  166. Shannon said on 01.07.09 at 04:42 AM • [comment link]

    I Married a Communist (1949) was released as The Woman on Pier 13 but no one wanted to see dumb Americans being outsmarted and blackmailed by gun toting Communists

    Ah, history essays on Cold War propaganda…how I love you.

  167. cc said on 01.07.09 at 04:57 AM • [comment link]

    She is the one who is going to make the most positive impact on the world.

    I’m writing a letter of recommendation and it’s winning- but that’s what edits are for

    Kes- Condolances

  168. Carrie Sessarego said on 01.07.09 at 04:59 AM • [comment link]

    “Linden got sent home from school today with pink eye.  Yuck.  I so
    very much hope we did not share it with you, but be on the lookout!”  A mass email to several of my daughter’s parent’s friends - yes, I live a life of glamor.

  169. beckybh said on 01.07.09 at 05:28 AM • [comment link]

    “forwarding…forwarding…”

    What I write when I’m forwarding yet another e-newsletter to my husband’s Blackberry, as he never reads them from our joint email acct.

  170. Throwmearope said on 01.07.09 at 05:28 AM • [comment link]

    Patient remains unconvinced that surgery will restore vision to his L eye, but accepts that cataractectomy is the only way to find out.

    And folks say medicine isn’t glamorous.

  171. job said on 01.07.09 at 05:37 AM • [comment link]

    And it was all done in 1891 by Ambrose Bierce, anyhow.

  172. Carrie Sessarego said on 01.07.09 at 05:58 AM • [comment link]

    just wanted to add, best wishes, Kes, I’ll be thinking of you.

  173. Amanda said on 01.07.09 at 06:07 AM • [comment link]

    I don’t have to reach for the stars….the treetops are good enough.

  174. krsylu said on 01.07.09 at 06:23 AM • [comment link]

    Last sentence of an email, regarding a friend of mine:

    Please keep her family in your prayers as they seek answers to their little girl’s medical condition.

  175. Timba said on 01.07.09 at 06:42 AM • [comment link]

    Oh , no, Waterford!  :(

    Re: A href=“http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090105/ap_on_bi_ge/eu_britain_waterford_wedgwood”>Waterford filing for bankruptcy.

  176. Timba said on 01.07.09 at 06:43 AM • [comment link]

    whoops.  Sorry about the borked html

  177. Aunt Lynn said on 01.07.09 at 06:54 AM • [comment link]

    [sigh] Had the same thoughts.

    Work, regarding a pita co-worker.

  178. PZ said on 01.07.09 at 06:57 AM • [comment link]

    *eyeing the kitchen*

  179. Tina C. said on 01.07.09 at 07:25 AM • [comment link]

    By “med sharps”, do you mean 2-gal or 3-gal?

    (It was a work email and I’m intrigued to know if anyone here knows what I was talking about.)

  180. Eunice said on 01.07.09 at 11:25 AM • [comment link]

    “To Mike, my favorite Disney princess”

    It’s an inside joke….

  181. theo said on 01.07.09 at 05:36 PM • [comment link]

    Tina C. Sharps containers? Stand alones? Or wall hung? I’m thinking that’s what you meant anyway…

  182. Yvonne said on 01.07.09 at 06:11 PM • [comment link]

    Is ‘neolithization’ a real word even?

    BTW, I love Joanna Lumley.

    OH! paper49: how did it know?

  183. kalafudra said on 01.07.09 at 06:33 PM • [comment link]

    Summarising, don’t waste your money on this one. Or any time.

  184. Noelle said on 01.07.09 at 09:20 PM • [comment link]

    You know all- It took me a while to post my response, ” Unfortunately we won’t be staying with you this trip but hope to sometime in the future,” because I debated for quite a while about whether to add a statement of context to it. In the end I didn’t but it was a hard call.
    Of course it’s natural to want to give the reader more insight and natural to be curious and want that explanation, but I really think I like them better floating alone with no context.
    It really makes you think and gets the creative juices flowing

  185. Maggie said on 01.07.09 at 09:48 PM • [comment link]

    “And she could always come back via a medium to testify against Aileen Wuornos. “

  186. Brandy said on 01.07.09 at 09:48 PM • [comment link]

    “And if I could get within ten feet of a broom without falling down I’d show you just how wrong you are.”

  187. Kes said on 01.07.09 at 10:01 PM • [comment link]

    Thanks, all.

  188. sherryandice said on 01.07.09 at 10:57 PM • [comment link]

    “Oh she had promised to be on her best behaviour, but bad girls just wanna to have fun too. Scaring the life out of little Dimitri would provide just that. “

  189. Laurie said on 01.07.09 at 11:24 PM • [comment link]

    I’m available for lunch, exercise or anything else that’s not kinky tomorrow.

  190. theo said on 01.07.09 at 11:29 PM • [comment link]

    Hey! What’s wrong with kinky??

    ;-)

  191. hope101 said on 01.08.09 at 12:05 AM • [comment link]

    By “med sharps”, do you mean 2-gal or 3-gal?

    (It was a work email and I’m intrigued to know if anyone here knows what I was talking about.)

    Regretfully, yes.

  192. Laurel said on 01.08.09 at 12:29 AM • [comment link]

    Facebook Status Update reply:  “My whole life is a series of stories about bears, apparently.”

  193. surfing@work said on 01.08.09 at 01:44 AM • [comment link]

    However, you will need to pass all of your subjects in Semester 1 to continue receiving your scholarship in Semester 2 and beyond.

  194. Ms Manna said on 01.08.09 at 02:55 AM • [comment link]

    Not when on the shelf next to them I have a half-full retail box of Nsync lip balms.

    I’m not even going to try to explain that.

  195. Leah Plath said on 01.08.09 at 03:37 AM • [comment link]

    Leah is happy the Gingerbread Complex Messtacular is done.

    It’s a status update on Facebook.

  196. Library Lady Terri said on 01.08.09 at 05:21 AM • [comment link]

    Thank-you.

  197. Erin said on 01.08.09 at 05:36 AM • [comment link]

    Hey, I don’t drink it after noon, but I’d carry it around in an IV drip until that point. Me uncaffienated is not pretty. There’s stumbling, cursing, a little drool and the possibility I’ll curl in a ball on the floor and keen quietly till I get some.

  198. amy lane said on 01.08.09 at 05:54 AM • [comment link]

    The little girl growled, the sound of a feral creature, not a human, and gathered her shoulders over Renny’s still body like a territorial and wild dog.

    Rampant, pg. 193

  199. Tina C. said on 01.08.09 at 02:37 PM • [comment link]

    Tina C. Sharps containers? Stand alones? Or wall hung?

    Wall-hung (but they can stand alone).  That was the last sentence of my response to the lab’s medical supplies request.

  200. S Andrew Swann said on 01.09.09 at 12:30 AM • [comment link]

    “I don’t believe anyone’s going to be willing to take that risk.”

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