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.
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.
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.
Also, I adore Shir's description of the collective us.
I cannot be bothered to do my French homework in that heat.
Where are the elves they promised me? Stupid universe.
{{{{Pix}}}} I'm sorry about the job and the stress and the pain and my not being able to give you a magical pain-relieving hug right now. Well, not right now, since I'm in a towel and you're probably asleep, but soon.
