I'm so sorry that the thing that's keeping you around is also wringing you dry. If you start to have reflexive negative associations with b.org, I will come over and beat up your PhD. But I do like having you around, and seeing you and Shir post is especially cute.

Whoo! Found Benadryl! I really should clean out my drug collection. I think I have at least one of everything.

If you start to have reflexive negative associations with b.org

No worries. If anything, that's the thing that gives the positive spin on these difficult weeks. I *love* being able to actually know what's going on with y'all that's not "Beep Me".

I will come over

Hmm, wait - if I whine enough, does that mean you'll come to Israel? Now I wonder if it's worth it, just for hosting you.

seeing you and Shir post is especially cute

Yay! And in English, too (which I still find funny).

Okay. Gonna try it again. The Benadryl can start anytime now.

Hopefully I won't be back for...four hours. Whee.

Night, ita!

I hope your sleep will be rich in quality, if not in quantity.

I hope ita sleeps soon!

I used to read every post, but now there are large swathes of the board that I never enter.

Shir, just adding Beep Me and Press shouldn't add too much reading for you... they are low traffic threads and it helps to keep informed.

Morning, Sophia!

there are large swathes of the board that I never enter.

Lately, it's the other way around with me - there are only the few threads that I enter, and the rest of the board is a mystery.

And that's not even due to all my regular different-timezone, doesn't-watch-USA-current-tv knows-nothing-of-these-subjects stuff with some of the threads. Sigh.

However, I never not read "Press" and "Beep Me". I wanna know how y'all are doing, even if I don't get the slightest chance to let y'all know that I do. And I'm so pleased that I keep the Buffista Calendar because at least this way I get a good excuse every now and then to hop into Natter and at least skip there, without feeling guilt.

I used to read every post, but now there are large swathes of the board that I never enter.

Ditto.

I used to read every post, but now there are large swathes of the board that I never enter.

Me too, but that was back when we had, like, 6 threads. I don't think I've been subscribed to *everything* since shortly after the migration to WX when the thread count went all splodey.

ION, I seem to be covered in hives. I didn't wake up with them, they sprung up during my commute. I'm really hoping it's just a random stress thing and not some horrible subway plague.

I'm really hoping it's just a random stress thing and not some horrible subway plague.

Just in case, I should avoid the Q train, right?

Morning all-- coffee has kicked in, however, my sinuses are hating me for all the chlorine yesterday (day trip to Typhoon Lagoon at Disney).

The photographs of celebrities without makeup inexplicably cheer me. I realize that I look better without makeup than a lot of recognized beauties. Is that wrong? I will admit, too, it does make me want to find a world-class makeup artist and photographer so that just once, I could see what I could look like. (No stylists though-- I'm convinced they're trolls who rarely have the best interests of their clients at heart. Otherwise, why would some of those chicks go out in public looking the way they do?)

sara, I see that Bev answered your Klimova and Ponomarenko question-- they were so typically Russian, big and bold and in-your-face dramatic. I always did prefer Usova and Zhulin, even though Sasha Zhulin was the biggest rat bastard on the planet, but K & P were stunningly beautiful skaters nevertheless.