Well, it's just good to know that when the chips are down and things look grim you'll feed off the girl who loves you to save your own ass!

Xander ,'Chosen'


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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


-t - Apr 06, 2015 9:43:58 am PDT #23783 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Oh no, Theo! Argh. Also, that sounds expensive for bare minimum cable.

I wouldn't describe the headaches I've had the last couple of days as migraines, they just aren't, but they are accompanied by the feeling that my brain has been removed and my skull stuffed with cotton. Do not like.


sj - Apr 06, 2015 9:48:26 am PDT #23784 of 30000
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."

Oh, Theo, what a pain. I'm sorry.


msbelle - Apr 06, 2015 9:57:02 am PDT #23785 of 30000
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

Huh so the just below the surface grumpiness is all because of flea? Good to know. You nasty lady having the dream sex with my imaginary actor boyfriend.


Theodosia - Apr 06, 2015 10:02:57 am PDT #23786 of 30000
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"

Well, the bare-minimum is actually basic cable- basic internet - local phone, and bundled they actually cost less than billed separately.

I'm trying to tote up all the money I put out for Minet, which I really doubt I'm ever getting back from his Mom, who is in more dire straits than I am. Back-of-an-envelope it's over $900. In how bad taste would it be to set up a pass-the-hat on GoFundMe or someplace to beg very politely for some help with that?

(I mean, asking only what I can absolutely document, like the vet bills and the insulin and syringes.)


shrift - Apr 06, 2015 10:11:29 am PDT #23787 of 30000
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty

Oh, shit. I need goals for this quarter. I totally forgot about that.

In how bad taste would it be to set up a pass-the-hat on GoFundMe or someplace to beg very politely for some help with that?

Not in bad taste at all. I think you should do it.


-t - Apr 06, 2015 10:14:55 am PDT #23788 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

That makes sense, Theo. I guess for all three that isn't so bad, but my mental sense of what things cost is stuck in the 80s or 90s so everything always sounds expensive to me.

Asking for help seems okay to me. That's a not insignificant sum you spent on a compassionate cause. I don't know the practicality of those things, but it doesn't seem in poor taste to me (especially if you can do it without alerting Minet's mom that it's happening, just because it would probably make her feel bad)


flea - Apr 06, 2015 10:45:02 am PDT #23789 of 30000
information libertarian

In a hot tub, I might add.


-t - Apr 06, 2015 11:18:42 am PDT #23790 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Better or worse? (I am asking msbelle)

OK, have applied for Financial analyst position (internal online application process is not too stupid) and notified my boss that I was doing so. HR tells me it's a "lateral move" paywise - I've got a 1% raise in my salary requirements because I rounded up. But I would require that to move.

Not sure I would take this job if offered, frankly. It's a longer commute, which would have to be by car I think, and I know very few people at that site. I can't tell from the description if the job would be a better fit for me and my education or not. But I figure keeping in practice with interviewing when I don't really need (or maybe want) the job is probably good. We'll see what happens.

Man, I like the taste of horseradish. Nom nom nom.


msbelle - Apr 06, 2015 11:28:45 am PDT #23791 of 30000
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

THAT WAS A DREAM IMPOSTER.


WindSparrow - Apr 06, 2015 11:47:36 am PDT #23792 of 30000
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.

Theodosia, I don't think it is in poor taste at all to ask for a bit of help when you are in a bind, especially since you used so much of your own resources to help an animal and a person who were also in a bind.