You do well to flee, townspeople! I will pillage your lands and dwellings! I will burn your crops and make merry sport with your more attractive daughters! Ha ha ha! Mark my words! Ooh! Ale! I smell delicious ale!

Olaf the Troll ,'Showtime'


Natter 72: We Were Unprepared for This  

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.


Kat - Jun 10, 2014 10:26:20 am PDT #29585 of 30000
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

All of my shirts ride up when I stretch. Normal stretching not backbends.

Grace is still I surgery according to the computer tracking. It's been 90 minutes, when usually it is shorter. Good thing or bad? I fear they have tried decannulation then had an issue and had to put the trache back and had to re-cut because the stoma closes fast.


Amy - Jun 10, 2014 10:57:54 am PDT #29586 of 30000
Because books.

I just made S. stand up and raise his arms above his head -- not even stretching, really -- and his t-shirt rode up enough to show hipbone.

I just came back from lunch with my mom and burst into tears. And we had a lovely time! My guess is heat and hormones and general anxiety, but I really just want to nap now.

Fingers still crossed for Grace, Kat.


erikaj - Jun 10, 2014 11:43:32 am PDT #29587 of 30000
Always Anti-fascist!

JZ, I was never much for costumes but I loved it when my grandma brought me a grass skirt. We need to do something about the gun thing, because a. It's beginning to remind me of the shot-up cafeterias in the eighties(Insert Gavin de Becker story here) and 2. I'm beginning not to be afraid, just sort of scanning to see how big the body count is, and that is *completely fucked* and I'm wondering if that might be my soul dying, and I totally have a problem with that(Not that the world needs me to be all in a lather, but I do have several friends who are gunshot survivors.)


Zenkitty - Jun 10, 2014 11:52:50 am PDT #29588 of 30000
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.

Much ~ma for Grace!

Regular wakey-wakey arching, or I'm-Kat-doing-a-back-bend arching?

More like standing-next-to-me-and-showing-off-his-awesome-abs stretching. Which, to be clear, I appreciated.

is it supposed to be gross to sleep with someone a friend or family member boinked?

Some people seem to think it's weird, but I never understood why. Presuming neither of the persons involved is riddled with disease, what difference does it make? (My only exception to that is someone sleeping with someone and also that someone's parent, which squicks me but logically I don't know why.)

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Jesse - Jun 10, 2014 12:07:35 pm PDT #29589 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

is is supposed to be gross to sleep with someone a friend or family member boinked?

Stereotypical Girl Code would say yes, I guess, but I think in real life it depends on the relationships involved. Have sex with someone I had sex with? Eh. Start dating my ex I'm not quite over yet? That's a different story.


EpicTangent - Jun 10, 2014 12:33:23 pm PDT #29590 of 30000
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty

Briefly de-lurks...

Epic, where are you editing Engineers? My employer (IEEE) will probably be hiring editors soon, you should keep an eye on the jobs site.

Zen, I'm at a teeny-tiny site under a ginormous Corporate Behemoth (name kept confidential to cover my heinie). We're in "turbine engine controls". The last place was "electronics adhesives". But the name IEEE is definitely not unknown to me, and I definitely will keep an eye on your site, thanks a lot.


Kat - Jun 10, 2014 12:57:30 pm PDT #29591 of 30000
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

Grace has no trache at the moment! She got panicky after she went to the bathroom in the under counter cabinet and wanted to be suctioned.


Kat - Jun 10, 2014 12:58:40 pm PDT #29592 of 30000
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

But she might be okay!


-t - Jun 10, 2014 1:01:14 pm PDT #29593 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Wow, Kat!


sj - Jun 10, 2014 1:01:44 pm PDT #29594 of 30000
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."

Yay, Grace! Continued ~ma that it works out okay.