Dreaming of Butterflies - A Jacob/Bella Fic - Chapter 2

.... But Bonnie wasn’t much bigger than Bella, and Bella was feeling particularly compelled, so she resisted, trying to bring her hands back together. That was the last straw for Bonnie, whose post-coital pleasantness had all but disappeared. She let go one of Bella’s hands just long enough to hit the intercom on the wall and demand that someone page Dr. Collins. Bella seized the opportunity for ...

only the beat of the train i'm on

... bros today. i keep meaning to expand but the eggs benedict, which i got once before, is like a siren call. we got in before the post-church rush, which added to the sense of pleasantness (victory did, that is). i guess that means that we diners there before noon were, by and large, heathens. my long form is going so badly... the more emotionally ambitious, the less direction, apparently. i am ...

Annoyances and pleasantness

...to go deal with city bureaucrats to get this silly thing. This will, I'm sure, make what could have been a 5 minute process something more on the order of an hour or two. *grumbles* Pleasantness of the day: I discovered a little storefront bakery/ice cream place/free wireless hotspot about 3 blocks from home, right at the corner of Diversey and Sacramento. It's apparently quite new, and the guy...

Pottery Pleasantness

So last night I got the bright idea to put the new, not entirely tamed, kittens in my bathroom with a baby gate. (There’s no door between my bedroom and the bathroom.) I set up the bathroom and watched over them for a few. They seemed to be enjoying themselves. When I hauled my sleepy self to bed last night the kittens had escaped! OMG! Slippery little suckers. I think it probably took them all ...

you're made of my sin [Closed/Complete]

... stepping inside the room. He folded his hands neatly behind his back and surveyed the space—glancing at the walls and furnishings distastefully. “This place is so strange,” he began—with a mock smile, mock pleasantness, mock nearly everything. He ran a finger along an end table curiously. “It seems to be impossible to get used to.” He turned. “So Menelaus is still out then? I was hoping I could ...

Rashida, I hope you're happy now.

... candy is usually enough to keep them placated for at least the minimum of waiting time. And once they hit teenage years, absolutely nothing you can do will entertain, amuse, or pre-dispose them towards anything like pleasantness anyway, so it's a moot point. But that yawning abyss between four and twelve, hoo boy, that's a kicker. You get home from work, and you don't get to so much as sit down ...

ca206 - Le Mal d'Archive - Les Petite Morts

..., Massimo Volume, and many others is mentioned as tutelar figures, fragmented and dissolved into a homogenous sound magma and inscrutable, but not for this lack of balance as large moments of pleasantness. The structures of cyclic ballads of popular music, once cut, destructured, with the ring out and "work" become sound fragment, bearer of spaces and places strong connotations. These capsules ...

Reading 1241, Prov 3

... of the things you can desire are to be compared to her. Proverbs 3:16: Length of days is in her right hand. In her left hand are riches and honor. Proverbs 3:17: Her ways are ways of pleasantness. All her paths are peace. Proverbs 3:18: She is a tree of life to those who lay hold of her. Happy is everyone who retains her. Proverbs 3:19: By wisdom Yahweh founded the earth. By ...

Middlemarch: BOOK VI. THE WIDOW AND THE WIFE.

..., and appearing either to have forgotten the roughness of his former reception or to intend avenging it by a forgiving familiarity, greeted him jovially and walked by his side, remarking at first on the pleasantness of the town and neighborhood. Will suspected that the man had been drinking and was considering how to shake him off when Raffles said-- "I've been abroad myself, Mr. Ladislaw--I've ...

...Understanding |||||||||||||||||||||||||||| 82% Warmth |||||||||||||||||||||||| 74% Morality |||||||||||| 38% Pleasantness ||||||||||||||||||||| 66% Empathy |||||||||||||||||||||||||||| 86% Cooperation ||||||||||||||| 42% Sympathy .../ignore the rules play by the rules Pleasantness 66% aloof or disagreeable gets along with ...