Mal: Does she understand that? River: She understands. She doesn't comprehend.

'Objects In Space'


Natter 69: Practically names itself.  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


amyth - Nov 11, 2011 4:44:37 am PST #5984 of 30001
And none of us deserving the cruelty or the grace -- Leonard Cohen

Ack, sumi.

ita, glad you're eating!


hippocampus - Nov 11, 2011 4:56:52 am PST #5985 of 30001
not your mom's socks.

is this Wells Fargo? Because they did something completely fucked up this AM. And I want to know it's not just our family.

Kat, with online banking or something else? [please note, when I reference Evil Bank of Evil, I am pointing up.]


sumi - Nov 11, 2011 5:03:57 am PST #5986 of 30001
Art Crawl!!!

Well, I was able to get through to my bank's customer service and they can't help me because the website is down.

This is making me think that I may actually have funds in my checking account but the account is inaccessible due to the website upgrade, is this possible?


Amy - Nov 11, 2011 5:05:30 am PST #5987 of 30001
Because books.

Could be, sumi.


Hil R. - Nov 11, 2011 5:07:44 am PST #5988 of 30001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

The gradebook program is called Angel. I'm not sure what system it's based on. I think I figured out the issue, though -- the late-drop period is ending this week, and about ten people have dropped the class, and the old average included their scores, but the new average doesn't. And, since it was mostly people with pretty low scores who dropped, that made the average go up, even with the two new low scores added.


Kat - Nov 11, 2011 5:19:01 am PST #5989 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

With all of the electronic transfers disabled from last week, things got all screwed up with our account. Not good.


Amy - Nov 11, 2011 5:22:22 am PST #5990 of 30001
Because books.

There are few thing worse than bank screwups.

My brother wrote an article he wants feedback on! So cute. And yet, I hope I understand it. The first sentence introduces the Cryptologic Community Foundation Principles. Uh.


§ ita § - Nov 11, 2011 5:26:46 am PST #5991 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

always turned out to be a good idea in the end

Problem is, when I'm nauseated like this, swallowing solids doesn't work. I can't my mind over matter to make the sphinctre to open. It's a really intensely unpleasant and distressing sensation. I think if I could power through the mechanics it would be less miserable.

Thanks, guys. I so relieved to being able to slip *something* down. I only ended up with the half sandwich, which was pretty tasty for a sandwich that I know actually tasted like crap.

I'd been lying to my mother through omission, because I didn't want to worry her, but then it meant avoiding her, so it wasn't working out so well. I've been calling her every 3 days pretty regularly since I came back (normally 7-14 days), so it felt kinda weird.

However, I have learnt, she is looking to leave the house for the first time since coming home from the hospital. They (her closest posse) talked her out of it the first time, since it was just to the supermarket, but I told her to fuck them and make them drive her for groceries.

So that makes me happy. Another weird thing I'm getting a emotional payoff from is striking up conversations with strangers. If I can get them to smile, it's even better, because that's one unscheduled smile for the day.

There's this app called Taxi Magic which lets you book a cab without calling anyone, and then it shows you who picked your ride, and where they are on the map coming to get you, etc. It's nifty because you can put in your dropoff address, so no spelling and explanations when you get in, and you can give explicit pickup expectations. Anyway, it also gives you your cab driver's name, so I decided to strike up a conversation with him the whole way back.

It felt good. It felt refreshing in a way that talking to acquaintances, because I don't need to tell him what's bothering me, but I don't need to lie about it either, isn't. He's in a strange middle place. Still, talking to Mr. Singh was both informative and a breath of fresh air, and I'm about to go into the app and give him a high customer satisfaction score. So he wins.

I hope my doctor didn't expect me to keep taking methadone, because I'm out, and he's out of the office until Monday, and I did tell his office tomorrow. That can't possibly be good for my sleep cycle.

Dammit, I have to renew a credit card. The main one for online account and regular debits. This will take forever to track down. I should record this stuff.


Jessica - Nov 11, 2011 5:30:40 am PST #5992 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

Problem is, when I'm nauseated like this, swallowing solids doesn't work. I can't my mind over matter to make the sphinctre to open. It's a really intensely unpleasant and distressing sensation. I think if I could power through the mechanics it would be less miserable.

Ugh, I'm so sorry.


hippocampus - Nov 11, 2011 5:33:26 am PST #5993 of 30001
not your mom's socks.

With all of the electronic transfers disabled from last week, things got all screwed up with our account. Not good.

UGH. How is it that their screwups = their customers' needing to spend time sorting it all out?