OMG, the Royals are at the top of their division. I've been busy with the new job and life and such and hadn't noticed. It's hard to even process the Royals having a winning record, much less to be at the top. On the one hand, it's awesome that they're doing so well. On the other hand, it's a bummer than the first sign of the apocalypse has come to pass. Invest for the short term.

Thanks Cash.

My current language pet peeve: what's the deal with "reach[ed] out to"? When did "contact" fall out of favor and get replaced by this feel-good bullshit phrase? (As in "We reached out to the manager of the grocery store to find out when Chunky soup would be back on the shelves." Really? "Reached out to"??? You're not trying to establish detente, here.)

I would, however, approve its usage if one could prove that one is a giant squid.

Just steer clear of the livers of carnivores.

We have vegans on the board, right?

I like reached out to. I used it today twice in two different conversations about two separate topics. The first being recruitment of non slacker students to our school and the second being pressuring students to take AP classes. In both instances, the program is trying to reach out to new students. It sounds better than strong arm.

Or coerce.

msbelle, we host a server for minecraft as well, but I'll have to get the deets from my DH. I'll email you when I have more info.

I thought the polar bear liver toxicity thing was particular to polar bears (too much vitamin E) and not a general carnivore thing, or even bear thing.

Unrelatedly: fuck that no monopurpose kitchen gadgets noise. Being able to make popsicles in a few minutes is awesome!

I feel "reach out to" has different nuance from "contact". It has a hopefulness, more implication but not assumption of response. You can just contact someone and be done with it. Not so much if I reached out to them.

I am drilling home to all sorts of people that the ER is my LAST resort. We are having a communication snafu of the highest order (so don't listen to me on semantics) and its practical payoff is that I'm in a cold brightly lit room, with my headache slowly creeping back up on me. I have made use of the word "irony" many times.

But if they think they don't have to go all out because there are other ad hoc ideas--NO. No one has given me more options. And my doctor said my initial email seemed too positive, and it was hours before he got my second one. I left three messages at every vaguely neuro-adjacent number I had, saying I could not just sleep on it, so I am not accepting culpability for that.

The advocate's manager came to see me, to find out why we were in such dire straits--it's not a huge slide in health--it was two incidences of bad sleep. Most people can recover from those, but I cannot, that's all. It's not a sign home care isn't working, or that the changing seasons are wreaking havoc on my health. I think my nightmares are outside their scope.

For the love of god, please let me go home.