Ab-dication! When monarchs! Step do-own!
Jayne: Captain, can you stop her from bein' cheerful, please? Mal: I don't believe there is a power in the 'verse that can stop Kaylee from being cheerful. Sometimes you just wanna duct tape her mouth and dump her in the hold for a month.
'Serenity'
Natter 71: Someone is wrong on the Internet
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.
-t - Feb 11, 2013 6:12:37 pm PST #10889 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Kat - Feb 11, 2013 6:18:07 pm PST #10890 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Stuff like having Lunar New Year off is why I occasionally want to leave my rural enclave and live in a metropolis. It's like, hey, some places acknowledge people other than white people exist!
But you live in a pretty non-white (or nonwhite adjacent) rural enclave!
N&G had off today for Lincoln's Day and they have off again for Washington's Day next week. Seems like a boondoggle to me.
Kat - Feb 11, 2013 6:19:04 pm PST #10891 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Ugh. Which reminds, we are reaching the point of the school year where it begins to feel like it May. Never. End. March won't be as grim this year with spring break at the end, but then April and May will both be long slow slogs.
-t - Feb 11, 2013 6:25:43 pm PST #10892 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
N&G had off today for Lincoln's Day and they have off again for Washington's Day next week. Seems like a boondoggle to me.
Really? I thought that was what Presidents' Day was created to avoid.
Kat - Feb 11, 2013 6:27:43 pm PST #10893 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
I thought so too, -t. But I was also surprised that schools in your neck of the woods have ski week the week of President's Day (at leas they did when I worked there). Euphemistically called "Winter Break" which was separate from "Holiday Break" or "Spring Break."
Lee - Feb 11, 2013 6:40:18 pm PST #10894 of 30001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Sue, I hope the rest of the trip more than makes up for the sucky start.
Today, the HR assistant walked into my office and said "happy anniversary". At first, I thought she meant the firm's 10th Anniversary in Norcal, but it turns out she meant that it is my 5th anniversary in this job.
I've never had one of those before. It's weird, and I'm not sure I like it, but at least they gave me money.
meara - Feb 11, 2013 6:49:04 pm PST #10895 of 30001
Yay money, that's pretty sweet.
YAY for ita's nurse! Non-hands reiki apparently works according to my decidely not-woo-woo skeptical yoga instructor (yes. that really is a good descriptor for her. She spends a lot of time cursing in yoga class).
See, that's one my skeptical mind has trouble with. Chiropractors and massage and even acupuncture, I get get with (well, chiros only for musculoskeletal things, or headaches, or whatnot, not curing diabetes and shit like some of them believe). But reiki, where you don't even TOUCH me, but manipulate my "energy" with your magic hands? Yeahhhh, I just can't do it. (Possibly doesn't help that the first person I ever knew who did it is a nut job in many other ways, but...)
Kat - Feb 11, 2013 6:54:03 pm PST #10896 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Jenny, my teacher, was totally making fun of reiki before she did it and then she had to admit it helped her. In some mumbo jumbo way that remains unclear. Or some sort of psychosomatic way.
When Grace's g-tube hurts, which happens frequently, I will often put my hand just over her skin and over it there and tell her I'm making it better. Then she nods and kisses me and says it doesn't hurt anymore. I figure reiki must be like that. (Granted, Grace is an almost 6 year old with some brain damage and developmental delays -- though still awesome -- so take that with a salt shaker).
msbelle - Feb 11, 2013 6:59:27 pm PST #10897 of 30001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
MAGIC!!
or a witch.
meara - Feb 11, 2013 7:01:05 pm PST #10898 of 30001
Ooh, maybe Kat's magic hands are because she is secretly the next pope and just doesn't know it yet! GOD IS MOVING THROUGH YOU.
I suppose the human body is capable of pretty miraculous feats when it wants to, so if reiki works for someone so be it. I still give it the side-eye as a practice in general.