Steph, thanks for posting that link, I'd forgotten all about her Flickr feed. So many beautiful photos of her, I'm totally going to download them all.
Every nightmare I have that doesn't revolve around academic failure or public nudity is about that thing. In fact, once I dreamt that it attacked me while I was late for a test and naked.
Willow ,'The Killer In Me'
ita's thread
A place where we can talk about ita, miss ita, and share information about memorials. The hugging started over here in Natter.
Polgara - Jan 14, 2015 7:14:33 am PST #316 of 3153
Karma is a cat, sleeping in my lap cuz it loves me. ~TS
Steph L. - Jan 14, 2015 7:18:37 am PST #317 of 3153
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
Excellent. When we have something for her family, perhaps we should remind her sister about that Flickr account, in case she forgot it.
msbelle - Jan 14, 2015 7:21:09 am PST #318 of 3153
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
I am looking through old threads, just found:
ita, did you see the naked wet man I linked to?
That was a post from Tommyrot. And of course that is something we post.
Trudy Booth - Jan 14, 2015 7:27:41 am PST #319 of 3153
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
Buff diving:
ita: So does the sentence "she literally fucked me" mean ANYTHING any more?
Kiba Rika - Jan 14, 2015 7:31:13 am PST #320 of 3153
I may have to seize the cat.
Buff diving:
Kiba Rika: ...anyone sacrificing goats to me? Didn't think so.
I prefer mints anyway. They smell MUCH nicer.
ita: I'm open to sacrificial goats. Anoint them with curry powder and some cream of coconut, and rack them up. Ta, ever so.
Susan and Amy's plans seem especially appropriate now.
Matt the Bruins fan - Jan 14, 2015 7:43:04 am PST #321 of 3153
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Anything I can help with on the family book front, I'd be happy to.
Toddson - Jan 14, 2015 7:48:22 am PST #322 of 3153
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Another ita-ism from the RQG:
It's the Internet. We ride porn's coattails, and try to stay off the sticky bits.
Trudy Booth - Jan 14, 2015 7:54:34 am PST #323 of 3153
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
Paperdol: Don't make me propose a thread discussing all ita, all the time, called, "Jamaican Me Crazy 1: A discussion of how wrong ita is."
Because you know I can get 60 people to register, vote, and then YOU will have to create the thread, my friend.
Hitting this was one of those laughter through tears moments.
Anne W. - Jan 14, 2015 7:56:36 am PST #324 of 3153
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
I can't tell you how much I regret not getting to know ita better or having the chance to meet her in person. I feel like I'm grieving for lost opportunity as much as I am for ita herself. I'm also grieving for those of us who did count her as a close friend.
JZ - Jan 14, 2015 7:57:49 am PST #325 of 3153
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Over on FB, Sandra Larkin found this advocacy group for patients with chronic pain - if, in addition to the copies for ita's parents and sister, we wanted to make more copies and either sell them or ask for donations, I'd be hugely in favor of using it to make a gift to that group in her honor. Also, maybe, sending a copy to whoever does consumer or health care reporting at the LA Times.
I just want to find some way to make it fucking mean something. Her not being here is wrong, and nothing will make it right, but maybe someone with the ability to *do* something about it can be made to notice, and to take steps to make sure that the other amazing people out there laid low by this bullshit will be laid at least a little less low.