Pix, I'm sorry you are having such an utterly shitty day. I'm glad you've got Sean and other friends to lend a hand, though, as well as all the love from all the other Buffistae.

I love all y'all. Chicken jokes, and looking out for each other - makes me fall in love with b.org all over again.

P.S. "Yonder" is a perfectly cromulent word, Shir. I use it all the time.

I've now taken another half of the Tylenol w/codeine and another half Flexoril, and I'm still not loopy and only in slightly less pain than before. I'm thinking I may have to take the final two halves. Wow, this is impressive.

But I'm happy because my dear friend B. decided to skip her preview tonight and come hang out with me. She's going to stay the weekend and make sure I'm okay. She has to work all day tomorrow, but the awesome Sean is going to come over to help me take one of the cats to the vet and help me with lunch tomorrow.

My friends are amazing.

May many blessings be heaped on B. and on Sean for being there for you, Pix.

My friends are amazing.

You are blessed. Also, water seeks its own level.

Actually, CJ is coming over tomorrow morning (the day is better for her). I can come over whenever. If B is there for the weekend, and you don't need anybody in the evenings, I'm still happy to come over and help whenever, for whatever (and, you know, pick up the $25 for my last house sitting session, as I could really use that).

Question for the coffee-lovin' hivemind: If one had to while away a couple of hours at a Starbucks with a laptop whose battery lasts around 20-30 minutes, how likely is it to find an outlet from which to bogart a little electricity?

Most of the Starbuck's I've been in usually have 3-4 wall outlets. They're one of the better places about that.

Thanks, Sail. That's encouraging.

Pix, insent. I really hope you are asleep and the drugs are helping you relax and your neck is all straightened out now. Relax.

Words can not convey my sentiments wrt Pasadena schools decision. The only thing I can hope for, is that now that you know the answer, the stress of not knowing is gone. Know that you have my brackets, along with all those already listed. And if the Pasadena school doesn't want you, well, fuck them! They don't deserve you.

In classic Watcher-in-Training Family style, we're going to a wedding today and we've lost half of the invitation. We're now running around going argh! and trying to find out which bits we're invited to. People should really expect this incompetency from us by now and staple papers together. We will for our wedding. We might also send out 'happy wedding day!' e-mail reminders on the day. We have a lot of friends like us.

Thanks for the ~ma, all. It was a fairly horrid interview, especially given the place and how much they know about me (I've been doing the Train the Trainers couse there, and the interview was to establish whether they're going to offer me training opportunities there). I did a great presentation, but the following questions were designed to catch people out and weren't exactly neurodiversity-friendly. They're not going to get back to me until mid-June, just to add to the trauma. Blah. We'll see.

Fay, wishing you safety. Thinking of you.

Kristin, that sounds nasty. I hope rest and the meds help. Feel better. (Don't worry if the drugs don't send you loopy & if you have to take a fairly decent dose. Some people have weird metabolisms. Some drugs hit me really hard and others have almost no effect.)

I love all y'all. Chicken jokes, and looking out for each other - makes me fall in love with b.org all over again.

What Andi said.

Erin, good on you for seeing the therapist. I hope she helps. Also glad to hear you have the board as part of a good support system!

I'm going to book an NLP course today. I've been umming and ahhing about doing this for years. I've found a residential one out in the country with facilities for disabled people that sounds excellent.

Oh, Pix. {{}} I'm glad friends are taken care of you. I'm sorry for the job. And I hope you're in less pain now.

OTOH, I got to list Buffistas as part of my support system, which you guys totally are, so I just wanted to give you all some love.

THIS.

Because every once in a while, when I say I'm on 2-3 boards on the internet (and count this community as my home board), I get the "huh? But people can't spell on the internet! And they're all like... talk-backers and such!" looks. And then I smirk, and says something like "yeah, it took some time to find these boards. But they're great". And sometimes they'll ask me what these boards are, and I don't wanna tell. Let them find their own communities, ffs.

In other words, I can't imagine my life - not just my internet life, but afk life - without you. You're a support system in a corset, eyeglasses and high heels, with a dirty mind, a heart of gold and a dictionary on hand. It didn't take much thought, on my side, to change the planning for after-graduation travel from Australia and NZ to Australia and U.S., again, this time to meet you.

Just bear in mind that I won't have the online dictionary at hand to understand what you're saying. You might have to retreat to Dumb Talk at times.

And, ION, my weekly political argument with my mom:
She: we can't possibly treat "them" who want to kill us as human beings. And they are to be blamed for their situation.
Me: thinking I should stop arguing with folks who never got the concept of rhetoric or logic. headdesk