Two of my close RL friends had hysterectomies this year. Ifelt like we should start a punch card or something.
Don't you just love this party? Everything's so fancy, and there's some kind of hot cheese over there.
Kaylee ,'Shindig'
Delurking 1: Because we don't always check our e-mail.
esse - Oct 19, 2016 11:06:57 am PDT #2700 of 3094
S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!
P.M. Marc - Oct 19, 2016 11:10:37 am PDT #2701 of 3094
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
I totes forgot to mention in my catch-up that I lost the whole summer to panic and anxiety because I fainted in June and then had to have ALL THE TESTS!
Which is expensive and sucks! But I appear to be actually okay, so hey.
Steph L. - Oct 19, 2016 11:18:27 am PDT #2702 of 3094
the hardest to learn / was the least complicated
I fainted in June and then had to have ALL THE TESTS!
Didja hit your insurance deductible? We actually did that this year, thanks to Tim's RA and possible-but-not-actual horrific lung disease. My therapy visits are SUPER cheap from now through the end of the year! I have to figure out if there's anything else I ought to get taken care of before our deductible resets January 1.
Barb - Oct 19, 2016 11:43:05 am PDT #2703 of 3094
“Not dead yet!”
Also a member of the hysterectomy (due to fibroids) club.
It does appear to be a thing, yeah?
P.M. Marc - Oct 19, 2016 11:47:07 am PDT #2704 of 3094
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Didja hit your insurance deductible? We actually did that this year, thanks to Tim's RA and possible-but-not-actual horrific lung disease. My therapy visits are SUPER cheap from now through the end of the year! I have to figure out if there's anything else I ought to get taken care of before our deductible resets January 1.
Heh. My deductible, yes. OOP max, no. And my therapy isn't under insurance.
Steph L. - Oct 19, 2016 11:53:37 am PDT #2705 of 3094
the hardest to learn / was the least complicated
OOP max, no. And my therapy isn't under insurance.
Yeah, we haven't hit OOP max yet, and aren't likely to (though I feel like saying that just invoked a cartoon piano to fall on one of our heads). And my therapist is only in my insurance because I scrambled around to find one who was.
And while I was typing that I just remembered that I owe you an email. Sheesh, sorry!
Jesse - Oct 19, 2016 11:59:56 am PDT #2706 of 3094
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
So is my non-Buffista friend the only one who calls that club "hyster sisters"??
Fay - Oct 19, 2016 12:27:30 pm PDT #2707 of 3094
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
This thread is an awesome thread. Fred - damn, that is some intense stuff. Jars OMGWTFBBQ Baby!
I feel like I kinda know what's up with a lot of folks through FB, but for the record currently in the World Of Fay I'm in my 3rd year working in Uganda, happily so, but presently looking for jobs elsewhere for the next Academic Year. (2nd interview for a gig in Suzhou, China, tomorrow, via Skype.)
The Cat Daniel, whom I acquired as a scruffy kitten in The Sahara Desert lo these fourteen years ago, sadly shuffled off his mortal coil within the past twelvemonth, due to cancer of the cat. (FUCK cancer.) it was grim. However he'd had a happy two years here in The Pearl of Africa and had learned to enjoy, in his grumpy neurotic fashion, the company of a wee calico kitten called Miss Darcy. When Daniel died I brought home two floofs to keep Miss Darcy company: Thor and Loki. I have apparently embraced Crazy Catlady hardcore, which is not the wisest choice for somebody with a peripatetic existence, but I don't have kids, so I'm going to try to make it work. (My cats are SUPER AWESOME you guise. SUPER SUPER AWESOME.)
What else? Um...perennially single (see above re: crazy catladydom), still bake excellent cookies & create awesome liquors, currently blonde, got promoted to Head of Department at work this year, teaching Art as well as Drama and English, haven't done much writing other than for work (oh - but I did have a play staged here at the National Theatre last Christmas, and I've written another that will be performed here this Christmas. Although this sounds way fancier in writing than it is in reality), have been acting on and off in various things...er...that's pretty much it.
Oh - although I wrote a rap about Donald Trump recently which I'm rather pleased with, which was a result of obsessing over "Hamilton". So that's a thing.
sj - Oct 19, 2016 12:32:13 pm PDT #2708 of 3094
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Fay! I'm so sorry about Cat Daniel. I can't believe it has been that long since you started teaching in Egypt. Good luck wherever you end up next school year!
Atropa - Oct 19, 2016 1:24:14 pm PDT #2709 of 3094
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
I kinda feel like a lurker, even though I'm still around and reading here, and even (infrequently!) posting. Still in Seattle, still with that adorable loomy Brit. Still have the pretty sweet tech writing gig that lets me work from home (even if I'm still the only damn writer for my massive product).
What else? Gothic Charm School is still in print and selling, yay! I'm waiting (not at all patiently) to see if any publisher wants to buy my first novel.