Reavers ain't men. Or they forgot how to be. Now they're just nothing. They got out to the edge of the galaxy, to that place of nothing, and that's what they became.

Mal ,'Bushwhacked'


Natter 74: Ready or Not  

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.


Jesse - Oct 18, 2016 8:59:12 am PDT #29502 of 30003
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I had a jerk chicken sandwich for lunch in honor of ita, but it was just OK.

What I did do, on the other hand, was make some shit happen at work! It took literally two conversations over the course of five minutes, but this one talking to that one, and sending an email that was never responded to and blah blah blah over the course of WEEKS have now been cleared up and cut through. Phew.


-t - Oct 18, 2016 9:03:49 am PDT #29503 of 30003
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Go Jesse, making things happen.

Kat, that is so something that would happen to me. And may have exactly, but I have to many incidents like that to remember them all...


Gudanov - Oct 18, 2016 9:04:07 am PDT #29504 of 30003
Coding and Sleeping

Thinking about current events on the board, I just wanted to apologize for anything I've posted that might have made people uncomfortable. My social skills are not very strong.

My current mood is pretty down. I messed up last night with dinner and that's kinda still playing out. It seems like whenever I make a mistake it wipes out anything good I've done. I think, for me at least, I need to avoid making any mistakes to maintain a relationship. Dinner is complicated right now because I was just diagnosed with diabetes and I've started planning out basically everything I eat and that doesn't always sync well with the rest of the family.


Dana - Oct 18, 2016 9:09:21 am PDT #29505 of 30003
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."

If the rest of the family doesn't like what you make for dinner, they can make their own damn dinner.


Jesse - Oct 18, 2016 9:10:16 am PDT #29506 of 30003
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Especially when you are on a medical diet! Which you are!

Everyone you live with is old enough to make their own dinner.


Matt the Bruins fan - Oct 18, 2016 9:10:17 am PDT #29507 of 30003
"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

Gud, you have never posted anything to offend people that I'm aware of. Uncomfortable on your behalf perhaps, but that's what venting to friends is for, so you don't have to bottle up things bothering you and suffer alone.

I'm probably the last person to turn to for sage relationship advice, but avoiding making any mistakes just isn't a thing that's possible for human beings in general. Everyone is fallible and makes mistakes; that's not something to beat yourself up over. And no one else should be beating you up for making honest mistakes either.


WindSparrow - Oct 18, 2016 9:12:51 am PDT #29508 of 30003
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.

Current mood: Wildly annoyed by people who give detailed answers to questions I didn't ask and ignore the question I did ask.

When that happens I get tempted to ask the question that they did answer. Well I have given in to the temptation at home. The result is "I just told you."The smart-ass reply of "Yes I know. When I asked about X, you said Y so I wanted to see if asking about Y would get me the information about X that I wanted," is not as conducisve to peace and harmony as one might hope.


Kate P. - Oct 18, 2016 9:15:47 am PDT #29509 of 30003
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love

Gud, I am frankly appalled that the other people in your house are giving you shit for cooking food that meets your own very real medical requirements. You have to take care of yourself. They are all capable of making their own food if they don't like what you're making. That is totally on them.


Jessica - Oct 18, 2016 9:16:38 am PDT #29510 of 30003
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?

Dinner is complicated right now because I was just diagnosed with diabetes and I've started planning out basically everything I eat and that doesn't always sync well with the rest of the family.

So either they can eat what you cook, or cook for themselves. Your health is objectively more important than anyone else's personal tastes!


JZ - Oct 18, 2016 9:21:23 am PDT #29511 of 30003
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.

Gud, everything that Matt and Kate said. You need a safe space to vent, and you are under totally unrealistic pressure to uphold an impossible standard or suffer the consequences of being merely human.

How hard is it to read a two-sentence email?

Based on my own experience, this also is an impossible standard to expect of other humans (except Buffistas; any of us can read any number of multi-sentence emails like a boss).