Liese, I'm so sorry for your loss.

Oh, Zenkitty! First: breathe. Second: can you do one thing? Like, pull out your shirts you want to bring, or clean the bathroom sink? Third: try not to beat yourself up.

Oh, Liese! So sad about the biscuit.

All friends: if you ever feel like your dreams are not reachable, I know a woman who went to divinity school in her 40s, possibly 50s, and just got called to a church! She is a slightly awkward lesbian, and I wasn't sure it would ever happen, so I'm kind of thrilled for her.

Zenkitty, everything Jesse said. I do the same thing before a trip, and I wish I lived closer so I could come by and help or at least keep you company. Would making a detailed list help?

Everything Jesse said!

(Thanks, Jesse! Especially for the dreams part, because I'm feeling old and useless and a little hopeless tonight.)

Zen, I have been in the exact same place, a list of thinks I *want* to do and me sitting in a chair crying because I can't bring myself to do them. I don't remember how I got myself to do things. I think eventually my normal self goes and hides in a mental closet and the Wolf Queen comes out and get things done.

Is it bad that I recognize multiple entities in my head and they have names and pictures?

My TV listings lied to me! The show called Wild West is actually about the American West, not British wackiness. Piffle.

Is it bad that I recognize multiple entities in my head and they have names and pictures?

No, it isn't. I wish my Wolf Queen would come out to help me, but she only jumps up for other people.

a list of thinks I *want* to do and me sitting in a chair crying because I can't bring myself to do them.

Exactly! The ADs have helped some, but this particular problem is more than depression. I don't know what to do.

I always think of that Hyperbole and a Half comic about depression where she's talking about trying to tell herself not to be sad. I feel like that when I know there's something I need to be doing, and yet I'm not doing it. I say, "Get up, self, and just do the thing. It won't even be that hard." But self doesn't listen.

My whole life is me not doing things that I should be doing. You got this, Zen. Also what Jesse said.

and I said something along the lines of people being terrible and then I felt totally awkward because of his wife basically being one of those people being terrible and, um, that's striking me as funny. Just, like, does Miss Manners cover this?

Unless his wife goes around saying all the terrible things she wants to do to people who go to UT, I think you have legit wiggle room to say that she's not who you meant. Although if she's secretly who you meant, well, we won't tell.

I'm so sorry, Liese.

And also sending condolences to everyone else who has lost a beloved pet of late. Man, it hits me every year how hard springtime is on elderly pets.

Yeah. Seconding this.

In related news, today's mail brought Ruthven Kitty's skeleton after being cleaned. He's now in the coffin with his brother's skeleton.