Fred: It's the pictures in my mind that are getting me. It's like being stuck in a really bad movie with those Clockwork Orange clampy things on my eyeballs. Wesley: Why imagine? Reality's disturbing enough.

'Shells'


Spike's Bitches 46: Don't I get a cookie?  

[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.


Hil R. - Nov 04, 2010 4:33:58 pm PDT #7524 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

I just got a really bad ratemyprofessors rating, so now I'm eating ice cream. (The comment actually pointed out several things that I know I was messing up at the beginning of the semester but have been working on improving. I disagree with one of the things it says, but the others are mostly things that I knew and have been working on, but it hurts to see it on the screen like that, anyway.)


sj - Nov 04, 2010 4:49:21 pm PDT #7525 of 30000
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."

Beverly, there will be pictures as soon as I am able to post them. Now if someone would just teach my mother to not be afraid of the internets...My dress is so very pretty. I am so glad I decided to have it made.

{{{Ginger}}} I'm sorry your family is making this difficult time more difficult.


erikaj - Nov 04, 2010 5:21:14 pm PDT #7526 of 30000
Always Anti-fascist!

You're typing the eulogy right? Wouldn't want a Larry David moment(although that was one of the funniest half-hours ever)


Maria - Nov 04, 2010 5:25:48 pm PDT #7527 of 30000
Not so nice is that I'm about to ruin a Friday morning for a bunch of people because of a series of unfortunate events and an upset foreign government. - shrift

Aims and Cass, you two did not blank, the rest of the world played a mean trick on you.

Ginger, if I could make them go away, I would. Instead, I'll send vodka.

Sox, that's wonderful news!

smonster has a cool doc, and bonus on not having caused herself any real trauma.

And then, then the molar cracked and I had to have it pulled. Yeah. Suddenly being numb was BETTER THAN CHRISTMAS.

Oh, don't get me wrong. When it involves yanking teeth out of my mouth, I go a step beyond. When I had some teeth pulled before I got my braces--way back in the last century--I went completely under. Nothing less than general for that.


sarameg - Nov 04, 2010 5:36:53 pm PDT #7528 of 30000

Ginger, my condolences on your loss.


Cass - Nov 04, 2010 6:09:25 pm PDT #7529 of 30000
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.

Aims and Cass, you two did not blank, the rest of the world played a mean trick on you.

Yes, it inserted a whole week when I thought there wasn't a week. Bad world, no In n Out cheeseburger for me tonight.


Spidra Webster - Nov 04, 2010 7:20:20 pm PDT #7530 of 30000
I wish I could just go somewhere to get flensed but none of the whaling ships near me take Medicare.

Ginger, I'm sorry that you're laden down with all that stress. I can relate to family craziness around funerals. I hope it goes better soon.

Hil, I'm sorry you got a bad rating. That sucks. I hope your students see you've tried to address those early issues and go and put more current and favorable reviews there.


Spidra Webster - Nov 04, 2010 7:30:15 pm PDT #7531 of 30000
I wish I could just go somewhere to get flensed but none of the whaling ships near me take Medicare.

This might be a bit too self-indulgent or maudlin for folks so I've tried to whitefont. I don't really have anyone that I can talk to in person about this kind of stuff:

I feel at sea.

Since moving back in with the 'rents, whole gobs of long-standing family dynamics issues have come up with me. I wanted to try to discuss them with my mom. And find out what she's thinking as well. She didn't understand me. In fact, she misunderstood me so she took it to be mere complaining about nitty gritty housemate issues rather than the long-standing stuff. Rather than about the parent-child relationship and triangulation between the many siblings. Instead of being interested or concerned, she was just annoyed. I think that will be the last time I try to talk about my feelings with my mom.

It's very difficult to make peace with the idea that you're never going to get what you wanted out of your dysfunctional family situation. That's the way it was, the way it is, and probably how it ever will be.

I've had plenty of therapy but I still feel like I have this big hole in me. Like I'm broken and that it has affected every interpersonal relationship I've ever had, driving off the very thing I want.

I'm supposed to just make peace with it, suck it up, and move on. And I've tried to do that. I guess I just don't know what to do with myself.


WindSparrow - Nov 04, 2010 7:48:39 pm PDT #7532 of 30000
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.

Spidra, I can't remember off hand if you are a huggy type person, but here: {{{{{{{{Spidra}}}}}}} you can think of that as warm thoughts if hugs don't work.


DCJensen - Nov 04, 2010 7:56:11 pm PDT #7533 of 30000
All is well that ends in pizza.

I'm writing the death notice, setting up the online memorial and scanning the pictures. I may be writing the eulogy.

I wrote my father's death notice. I do not remember what it cost, if anything, to have it run in the local paper. I vaguely remember being surprised they ran it verbatim.

I wrote the Eulogy, too. Being a trained writer came in handy, as no one else in the family was ready to be coherent.

I wish you luck and condolences.