quester,that's so diffiult. I'm sorry.

Aims, the loss is disappointing, and I hate it for you.

Oh quester, I'm sorry.

And blagh! on the food losing, Aims.

ah, quester I am sorry. I always feel adults moving in together should set up rules -- so no one feels pounced upon. Esp if one of he adults is in a stressful place. Good luck in easing through this

Thanks all. I know I'll get through this but I'm still at the feeling-sorry-for-myself and yet- another-epic-fail-on-my-part place. My eyes are still leaky and it will be hard to get to sleep tonight.

But, having a safe place to vent means so much!

I'm sorry quester. Having an ear does help, but that kind of sadness lingers.

I'm a bit of a mess myself. The work thing pushed me over the edge today, but it's just the tip of the iceberg. IRS badness, massive money woes directly linked to the same, Zoe's torn ligament, and other stuff I can't go into has left me feeling terribly fragile and sad. I really just want to hide in my room and sleep a couple of days straight.

Brackets to quester, Kate P., Aims, bonny, Ginger, Kristin, and anyone else who needs them. Job~ma and flood~ma, too. And ankle~ma for Amyth.

I'll drink from the same water glass for days in a row. But I freely accept that I'm odd.

I do that too. That's why I figure it is ok to leave the cats' water dish for a few days.

I've had their teeth cleaned professionally one time each. I was planning to do it every other year, but I might stretch it out a bit.

Zenkitty, was it you, asking about cats being allergic to fish? Yup, it sure is possible. Harvey gets pretty itchy over fish and chicken. He seems to react much worse to herring than he does to white fish. Corn, wheat, soy, and beef are some other common food allergens for cats. If you need me to, I can help you hunt up information on how to do a novel protein food trial to see if that is the source of the itchiness.

I'm trying to show patience towards my fellow students, but God, sometimes? It's impossible.

Most people took sociology and anthropology because the threshold of acceptance is so low, it's almost not in this realm of existence. And in the first year they're being treated with gloves of silk.

And then we get to the second year. The year on which the philosophical leg of interpretive social sciences steps in; the year on which we become the equivalent of philosophy in humanities (with the non-existing threshold, yet high expectations), on which people will ask the same question 10 times without listening to the answer (this year's question: "wait, what is essentialism?").

Which brings me to the "Shit I Didn't Said Today" corner, when I went out of the line to ask questions after the class, sighing and saying something about "well, I'll send an email", even though I was the next person to ask after waiting there for 20 minutes. Then, people "apologized" for their 6-7 minutes (PER PERSON) of mostly irrelevant questions/questions that were and are answered on the instructions we were given. Unbelievable. We truly deserve the attention we're getting as idiots sometimes. So to their apologizes about not paying any attention to what we're studying and hence delay the entire class by returning constantly to the "no, we're assuming there's some kind of social construction here of reality" on it's most basic level, I replied with "oh, it's fine". What I meant to say was "oh, it's fine. It's not you - it's the construction of the concept of time and the use in it in modern Western society".

And they thought that my mild reaction was bitchy and out of line. Seriously? You hardly bother to read a single paper, and then expect the material to be chewed specifically for you, you unique, innocent, fragile snowflakes?

I'm actually furious about it.

Three seperate people on my FB changed their status to single yesterday. (No one from here, FWIW.) Was there something in the air? Eep.

Holy Eff!!! I went to the consignment shop last night to look at a sofa and I found an Aynsley mug commemorating Diana and Charles' wedding. It looks like this: [link]

Anywhoo...being the Anglophile that I am, of course I snatched it up. I got it for $4. I just looked it up on eBay and an American seller has one up for $70!!! It's totally going on display with the Queen Elizabeth II commemorative plate that a very benevolent pair of friends are giving me and my Golden Jubilee coin that my mom found!!

(Somewhere, Pete is, I think, making scoffing noises at my general direction.)

Good find, Aims!