Should I call in sick to work? I feel marginally OK (throat is still very sore) but spent most of last night puking.

Are you on antibiotics? My advice would be to call the doctor that prescribed them and ask him/her.

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Awww. I'm loving the BT dating report.

meara, I'm glad your mom handled the letter fairly well (from the sounds of things). And if you've been puking all night, I'd say take the day off. Or at least take the morning off and see if you can keep any food down.

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Yeah, tummy is feeling mostly OK, but decided to email work and say "I should've stayed home yesterday, sorry, not coming in today, call me for the lunchtime meeting". Mostly cause tummy is better, but still don't want to test it with various pills that will make the rest of me besides the tummy feel better.

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Awww. I'm loving the BT dating report.

The Wally Report is my new favorite show. Especially after last night's HSQ.

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In good news, my mother's only question on receiving the "I'm GAY" letter was "Well then why do you read those awful trashy romance novels?".

BWAH! I'm glad you got that reaction.

What's this about lynx sex?

"It's not. It's important to me that I kiss you."

I'm swooning here, too. I'm so glad for the mutual doomage.

So I keep worrying that people will judge me if I don't break down, which if I follow my typical pattern for everything except that little set of uncertainties that trigger my worry script, I won't.

Susan, I am seconding or thirding or fourteenthing the comments that everyone grieves differently. However you feel, whatever you want to do -- it is fine. No one will judge you for it.

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Lyra, at the first F2F, we brought a bunch of REALLY bad romance novels to trade around, and the....standout of the bunch...was one where the wee Scottish lass (who was probably a witch or something, and had purple eyes, etc etc) was bathing naked in a stream, and was seduced by a lynx (I think it was like, licking her). Conveniently, a few pages later, the hero, who was like, nicknamed 'Lynx' or had lynx-colored-eyes, or some such nonsense, arrived.

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Ah, Build Team, you're so pretty!

You're not wrong.

The Wally Report is my new favorite show. Especially after last night's HSQ.

Heh. Me, too! If I'm going to date live vicariously, through billytea seems the best avenue.

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Susan, and Anne, save travels and peace to you both. You're in my thoughts and prayers. And Susan, what Trudy said about what other people think.

Study went on against the backdrop of my brother killing demons, messily.

Okay, look. When you post things like that to an audience of Buffy fans, it evokes pictures, you know? It evokes pictures that probably have very little to do with reality. Also--and I apologize for this from the bottom of my heart--for a moment, in my head, the part of billytea was played by Michelle Trachtenberg. The plus side? You had very shiny hair. t /get out Get Out GET OUT

Her: "Why is it so important to you whether or not it's a date?"
Me: "It's not. It's important to me that I kiss you."

billytea, this is an Oz-in-the-van-in-Innocence quality line. I don't even want to call it a line--probably wouldn't have, if you hadn't been posting pick-up lines over the last few days. But really, this is lovely.

In good news, my mother's only question on receiving the "I'm GAY" letter was "Well then why do you read those awful trashy romance novels?".

meara, that's an important question, and I think it deserves an answer! :) Seriously, this was nice to read. Also? What Hil said. If these anti-b's are making you sick, you might need another kind. You might not even be getting enough of them into your bloodstream. Please call the doctor and tell him/her.

"No, no, it's because of those awful trashy novels. They turned me. They can do that."

This epitomizes what I both love and hate about catching up with a thread after the fact, here. I so wanted to be the one to say that, brenda.

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the wee Scottish lass (who was probably a witch or something, and had purple eyes, etc etc) was bathing naked in a stream, and was seduced by a lynx (I think it was like, licking her).

I'm not sure whether I should snerk, eww, or BWAH at this, so ... consider all three done, as I scrub my brain with Clorox.

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billytea, this is an Oz-in-the-van-in-Innocence quality line. I don't even want to call it a line--probably wouldn't have, if you hadn't been posting pick-up lines over the last few days. But really, this is lovely.

Aww. I'm blushing again. I love the Oz-line. And now you mention it, she'd promised to show me some of her pick-up lines, and never delivered! Except that her asking "Am I good enough for you?" made me all melty. She's pretty feisty and happy to give me heaps, we've had more than one verbal sparring match (all in good fun of course), she knows her own value and she's confident within herself, and then suddenly she makes herself completely vulnerable to me.

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