Spike ,'Selfless'
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.
Oh god, lisah, that's awful. I'm so sorry.
Pix, yikes, here's hoping it's nothing serious! Are the bites very itchy? I had bedbugs once in a hostel in Melbourne, and they were insanely itchy -- like, as bad as poison ivy. So, um, if the itching isn't too bad, maybe it's not bedbugs? (Also, whoa, bedbug-finding dogs? Who knew such a thing existed??)
I'm horribly allergic to anything that bites, so I'm covered in itchy, scabby welts. ND doesn't have a mark on him. I also react like this to fleas, spiders, and sometimes even mosquitoes. Sigh.
Yuck, Pix. I hope it's just fleas or some critters easier to deal with.
"I hope you have fleas" is not something I ever imagined saying to a friend.
I'm horribly allergic to anything that bites, so I'm covered in itchy, scabby welts.
Ugh, so it already totally sucks even if it's not the worst-case scenario. So sorry!
Thanks. I'm pretty miserable. But now I have a plan. The local mattress store sells the protect a bed cover, so I'm going to start with that. Then I will enlist the help of the bug-sniffing dog. Mostly I will hope if it is bedbugs, they haven't spread yet.
Oh, poor Pix. I hope it's not bed bugs.
Ugh, Pix, that's a drag. I hope it's easily taken care of.
My German copies of Cold Kiss came! It's called Deine Lippen so kalt in German, which seems like a lot of words for "cold kiss," but still, very cool. And very pink, oddly.
I'm horribly allergic to anything that bites, so I'm covered in itchy, scabby welts. ND doesn't have a mark on him
Not to freak you out, but that was exactly my situation when I had bedbugs. Itchy scabby welts. (Apparently only a tiny fraction of the population is allergic to bedbug bites. Sometimes I hate being such a special snowflake.)
Condolences to Liese and lisah.
And sending vibes to Pix, hope it's easily dealt with, whatever it is. Hate bugs.
As for dealing with death, I had a student last year who was a novitiate in a Zen monastery and from what she says, the Zen Buddhists seem to have a good bead on death as simply a part of life and not to be mourned. She spoke of one monk laughing through his final breaths. I've watched a lot of loved ones go, and that seems like a pretty magical way to die.
Oh, my, god.
Why can't people answer the question I asked. "Do we need to X?" "We can X..." Dude, no. Do we need to? Does it solve any problems? Are we at a standstill without it?
"Do we have a subject matter expert in Y? Can you tell me who it is?" "I don't think we need one for what I'm working on." Great, that's really exciting, but it has nothing to do with my actual question, though.