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

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.

Rubbish. Your English is beautiful. (And significantly better than my Hebrew...!)

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Well, today has been less worrying than yesterday, in the hearing-lots-of-loud-explosions stakes, so I haven't fled the apartment just yet. Have packed an In Case Of Emergency bag, though. Abandoning one's home seems like a big step to take; my friends who live on the street adjacent to mine have, because they were right in the middle of gunfights; my street remains fairly calm at present, so I'm playing it by ear. (And, I mean, I'm on the 18th floor, so I'm not worried about stray bullets, and the makeshift grenade launchers that were trying to take down the helicopters are several blocks away, and haven't been active today, afaik.)

I do have a place to flee to, on the other side of town, if things heat up further. Hopefully that won't be neccessary.

Fay, it sounds to me that you're ready for anything that might happen. Excellent.

Seska - I guess that it makes a difference to me. In speech, there are so many times on which the things I say are too far away than the way I actually want to deliver them. It can be frustrating. So pretty much whenever I'll start a sentence with "it's like...", it means that I didn't find the exact words to nail my thought down.

(((((Pix))))) I'm glad you have good people to take care of you this weekend. Feel better.

(((((Fay))))) I'm glad you have an evacuation plan just in case. Continued safety-ma to you.

{{{Fay}}} Good plan.

Pix, I hope you got some rest and you feel better. That school made a bad decision not hiring you; I'm sorry. FWIW, when I got Flexeril for the monstrous back spasms I was having, it did nothing whatsoever for me, so if the stuff doesn't work for you, tell the doctor to give you something else!

Fay, yikes! Take care of yourself, and if you feel maybe you ought to flee, don't talk yourself out of it, okay? just GO.