I think my eyeballs got sunburned.
Certainly my shoulders are. Too much humidity for the sunscreen to hold up.
Willow: Yes. Hi. You must be Angel's handsome, yet androgynous, son. Connor: It's Connor. Willow: And the sneer's genetic. Who knew?
'A Hole in the World'
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.
sarameg - Sep 19, 2015 4:44:33 pm PDT #5660 of 30003
meara - Sep 19, 2015 6:42:21 pm PDT #5661 of 30003
Ugh. I am feeling super depressed. I'm supposed to be having a fun weekend with my bestie, but instead am just feeling left out because everyone I'm seeing on this trip is married and most of them have kids. Last night we hung out with my aunt and uncle, cousins and their spouses, and baby. Tonight with a friend of BFF's, and tomorrow meeting that friend and her spouse and two kids. Tomorrow night, hanging out with an old coworker of ours and her husband. And I just feel shitty. I've been horribly cranky all day and I hate it.
JZ - Sep 19, 2015 7:09:15 pm PDT #5662 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.
{{{meara}}} I've had that weekend before, and it is utterly no fun, and there are no words from anyone else that can magically make it better. So, just {{{meara}}} You're loved, and you are better than your self-valuation right now.
erikaj - Sep 19, 2015 8:19:52 pm PDT #5663 of 30003
Always Anti-fascist!
"Most of them have jobs and kids...what am I gonna say? I killed the President of Paraguay with a fork." I feel like that, at least once a week, and my job's sketchy too.(No world leaders have been harmed. yet.)
erikaj - Sep 19, 2015 8:26:12 pm PDT #5664 of 30003
Always Anti-fascist!
Sometimes, I even feel like a failure as a crippled person, which would seem impossible, and yet? I've known I sucked at Overcoming, since I was, like ten, and then, I didn't like, pull it together and desegregate whole classrooms or take up whitewater rafting or murderball.(And a lot of my friends are motivational speakers or fight gun violence,and, on a good day, I look up phone numbers for halfway rich people in Bumfuck County Florida(Which must be super-important cause I don't make a dime from it)
Burrell - Sep 19, 2015 9:06:40 pm PDT #5665 of 30003
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
So, just {{{meara}}} You're loved, and you are better than your self-valuation right now.
Yes, this
Tom Scola - Sep 20, 2015 3:23:29 am PDT #5666 of 30003
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
“the book even contains a copy of her tour rider, which requires that her green room be furnished with two dozen oysters on ice, unopened because ‘Grace does her own shucking.’”
Kat - Sep 20, 2015 3:33:24 am PDT #5667 of 30003
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
I'm sorry, meara. That's not a good place to be at all.
Relatedly, I am filled with envy at Lee's travel. Or really anyone's travel at this point. My big trip this year is to Washington DC with kids. Nothing glamorous there. I miss travel.
meara - Sep 20, 2015 7:30:16 am PDT #5668 of 30003
Thanks guys. Things always feel better in the morning. But partly just hard knowing change is coming too (BFF having kids! Which is exciting but obvi no vacations together for many years in the future...)
hippocampus - Sep 20, 2015 7:37:37 am PDT #5669 of 30003
not your mom's socks.
one of my San Diego college-era peeps just IM'd me to say that she's at Sox's books, beer and tacos event right now! Yay!
OH Who was it?
It was a great event - AND Buffistaed!
Will write more from plane - Meara - all the hugs ... I'm sad I'm missing you in Seattle. You are wonderful and among the best of people.
Kat & sj I hope you both feel better soon -