Strix, keep hope. We had one cat that took a winter sabbatical in someone else's home. We thought he'd been plowed into a snowbank, and came back fat and smelling of woodsmoke. My own cat decided on a two week vacation (or maybe her kidnapper decided to release her after my Wanted posters went up. I was a fucking mess those weeks with her gone).
Xander: Just once I'd like to run into a cult of bunny worshippers. Anya: Great. Thank you very much for those nightmares.
'Sleeper'
Natter 73: Chuck Norris only wishes he could Natter
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.
Juliebird - Oct 21, 2014 3:10:20 pm PDT #8609 of 30000
I am the fly who dreams of the spider
msbelle - Oct 21, 2014 3:43:38 pm PDT #8610 of 30000
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
I did come home. No drama tonight. My mother suggests I yell less.
Kat - Oct 21, 2014 3:50:45 pm PDT #8611 of 30000
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Well, thanks, mom? Yelling, while not exactly productive, can be a valve when necessary.
Grace had equipment issues last night so I was up to 1:00 AM waiting for the DME delivery. Really? Sigh.
Jesse - Oct 21, 2014 3:54:49 pm PDT #8612 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I'm watching the Skip Gates genealogy show, with Tom Colicchio, Aaron Sanchez, and Ming Tsai, and I know I knew this, but the ancient Chinese did NOT fuck around. They want back to like 600 AD, generation by generation!
msbelle - Oct 21, 2014 4:06:19 pm PDT #8613 of 30000
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
Also? Have you met me? Rage barely under meh surface at all times, I yell. It's like she has forgotten 43 years of me,
sarameg - Oct 21, 2014 4:16:05 pm PDT #8614 of 30000
And the thing is, yelling isn't always inherently Bad. Now, around someone like me, it's ineffective and counterproductive (I shut down and remove) but that's not the dynamic here.
It doesn't seem the volume or method of delivery is mac's issue- it's that he doesn't like the content. You guys probably have some sort of feedback loop going ( what parent child dynamic doesn't?) but that's not primary issue.
brenda m - Oct 21, 2014 4:22:02 pm PDT #8615 of 30000
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
I heard a fascinating interview with Alan Cumming last weekend. He found out as part of one of those shows that his father wasn't actually his biological father. Which, given what else he discussed, was probably not an altogether bad thing.
shrift - Oct 21, 2014 4:46:09 pm PDT #8616 of 30000
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
Ugh, I left work around 5:30 so I could walk home again because stress. I spent all day successfully wrangling all sorts of shit, had a chat with an old manager about my options locally (it isn't totally hopeless but my options also are severely limited), and now I'm logged into work again in between 1st & 2nd period of hockey because I'm dealing with a thing that has all kinds of important people cc:ed on it.
And again I am baffled as to why they are thinking of basically getting rid of my position, because I'm not sure they've considered the consequences if I'm not going to be there to do this?
I guess I should bring that up with my manager, huh.
aurelia - Oct 21, 2014 4:50:05 pm PDT #8617 of 30000
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
I do love being warned about constables.
That's the best!
I'm actually watching baseball. It's not going so well.
Cass - Oct 21, 2014 5:01:31 pm PDT #8618 of 30000
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
And again I am baffled as to why they are thinking of basically getting rid of my position, because I'm not sure they've considered the consequences if I'm not going to be there to do this?
They truly don't seem to have at all.
Of all my ridiculous and hard to identify bruises, my favorite is going to be that the puppy whacked me in the shin with a six foot stake she stole from a tree. She's carrying it around like most dogs carry tennis balls. With extra prance because she's apparently quite proud she has a six-foot stake.
Spent my day off texting with the person covering the office and my boss. For a day off, it kinda wasn't.