It's a fucking travesty the way schools are being squeezed.
Seriously.
You can't open the book of my life and jump in the middle. Like woman, I'm a mystery.
Mal ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
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.
le nubian - Dec 08, 2012 4:03:46 pm PST #3659 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Consuela - Dec 08, 2012 4:10:30 pm PST #3660 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
It's a fucking travesty the way schools are being squeezed.
So ridiculous!
Well, I am not going to sing hosannas until I crawl into bed, but I spent five hours with my folks today and there were no meltdowns. We got a couple of cranky comments, which Dad & I ignored, and some anxiety about her access to her medications, but that was about it. She complains about the food and yet ate her whole BLT and most of her sweet-potato fries.
If I can get to 9 PM without a phone call from Dad saying "Your mother would like to speak with you," I will be a very happy daughter.
Fingers crossed, people. Tomorrow may suck, but today is a sign that improvement is possible.
Liese S. - Dec 08, 2012 4:14:47 pm PST #3661 of 30001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
I am having a cup of that right now!
So good!
Tomorrow may suck, but today is a sign that improvement is possible.
That's awesome. One day at a time.
-t - Dec 08, 2012 4:14:53 pm PST #3662 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
That does sound like a (relatively) good day. More and better to come, I hope!
Jesse - Dec 08, 2012 4:17:17 pm PST #3663 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Hooray for good afternoons!
§ ita § - Dec 08, 2012 5:32:40 pm PST #3664 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
That's great, Consuela!
How much do you normally see your parents, Consuela, if there is a normal? Are you expecting to spend more time with them as part of your mother's acclimation, or is this close to usual?
I have decided the only way the apple thing is going to stick is if I take notes. So I'm using a totally OTT app with my Evernote back end, and I'm taking a picture of each apple and recording my opinions of the taste. Otherwise I totally forget which is which, and I certainly can't tell them apart by looking.
So I went to Whole Foods and got one of each of the red ones. I'd never even heard of Arkansas Black before. Yoinks.
You know when you get into a weird argument? What is pilot season? I mean, what takes place during it, and when in the year is it?
Ginger - Dec 08, 2012 5:40:27 pm PST #3665 of 30001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Many people cite the Arkansas Black as the best eating apple, and I agree with them when I get a good one. Sometimes, probably because of storage, they can be mealy.
Steph L. - Dec 08, 2012 5:50:33 pm PST #3666 of 30001
I look more rad than Lutheranism
I've never heard of Arkansas Black. It sounds like a kind of pot. t edit Marijuana, to be clear. Not a cooking pot.
Kat - Dec 08, 2012 5:51:01 pm PST #3667 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Okay expert googlers, I need a Kehinde Wiley portrait of two young men. It has a background with silver filigree and one of the young men is in a plaid shirt. HELP!
-t - Dec 08, 2012 5:54:53 pm PST #3668 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Dee and Ricky? [link]