Tact is just not saying true stuff. I'll pass.

Cordelia ,'Dirty Girls'


Natter 52: Playing with a full deck?  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


sarameg - Jul 24, 2007 5:28:22 pm PDT #9933 of 10001

OK, so now I'm laughing at myself. Thank goodness lj is down for ME. I'd post f-locked stupid stuff. Better I don't.


Kat - Jul 24, 2007 5:32:27 pm PDT #9934 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

Things are going to get much much much worse in the very near future for the very long term.

It sucks.


sarameg - Jul 24, 2007 5:37:22 pm PDT #9935 of 10001

I wish I could help more.


Kat - Jul 24, 2007 5:38:31 pm PDT #9936 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

Me too.


Theodosia - Jul 24, 2007 5:42:54 pm PDT #9937 of 10001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"

Hugs to you and all, Kat. I do have faith that you'll be able to negotiate/navigate troubles with more resourcefulness and resilience than most people... but that doesn't make it feel any easier, I'm sure.


msbelle - Jul 24, 2007 6:03:39 pm PDT #9938 of 10001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

In my not ready to stop whining about my maybe-Lyme's file: Almost all the symptoms I have are just really exaggerated things I have already from fibro - aches, forgetfullness, trouble concentrating, sleep issues, muscle weakness. So I read on the internets about several people developing fibro after having Lyme's. If this just advances the severity of my fibro I seriously think I will have to change a ton of my life.

eta - ugh, catching up. Kat - sorry for the continued and increasing overwhelmingness.


Susan W. - Jul 24, 2007 6:15:40 pm PDT #9939 of 10001
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights

I'm so sorry, Kat.


Lee - Jul 24, 2007 6:24:19 pm PDT #9940 of 10001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.

Me too, Kat.


§ ita § - Jul 24, 2007 6:27:20 pm PDT #9941 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Kat, I wish I could be useful to you. At the very least, I hope LJ comes back up so you can vent soon.

There's a seventeen year old instructor at krav. M's been training longer than I have. Her mother trains, and trained pregnant with M's littlest brother, who just started training himself.

Some Mondays I get to teach with her. She's incredibly bubbly and enjoying the hell out of seventeen. When she trains a rifle on you, it takes a couple seconds to process past the bounce and the smile.

But she's good. I taught with her yesterday. I watched her go super hard core on the warmup, but still being warm and friendly. When we do go all out, I watch this beginner class to see if the more out of shape people are coping properly, making sure they're not bailing or dispirited. The last time we taught together, an entire class of groundwork which is very exhausting, the two largest and most unfit students later called it the best class they'd ever had.

This week we had another big guy who wasn't fit, who left the room more than once to catch his breath. He introduced himself to us afterwards, to say he'd just started that day, and that he hoped not to have to leave as much in the future and that it was a really good class and he was looking forward to training again.

I'm not sure what my compulsion is to write about this here is. I don't know. I know I'm all verklempt about the sunny disposition of the kick-assed teenager and the people who take a challenge in the spirit that it's given and the ability to touch people when you didn't know you were going to--when perhaps you worried you'd drive them away.

It just kinda felt like I should post it. I had an appalling weekend this past weekend, one that had me just about convinced to hide myself away from the public. And then I have an evening like that and I realise that even though I don't always have the energy to go out and make contact with people it would be dangerous to expend any to avoid them. Magic lives in other people--it's just a matter of looking in the right places.

t /schmoop


DebetEsse - Jul 24, 2007 6:31:14 pm PDT #9942 of 10001
Woe to the fucking wicked.

I'm glad you posted it, ita.