Angel: Will you just shut up for once?! Illyria: What? Angel: My God, the speechifying. Has it ever occurred to you that now might not be the best time for when-we-were-muck stories?

'Time Bomb'


Natter 75: More Than a Million Natters Served  

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.


tommyrot - Aug 15, 2017 10:06:31 am PDT #15398 of 30002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

Finally had a job interview last Friday. It must have gone well, as the recruiter called me up today to talk about salary.

The recruiter was someone Gud passed my resume to, so the job is in the Kansas City area. (I've been thinking of leaving Chicago for awhile now.) I'm still looking in the Chicago area, and maybe I'll look in Minneapolis and the SF Bay Area.

Thanks again, Gud.


tommyrot - Aug 15, 2017 10:09:12 am PDT #15399 of 30002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

I'm not claustrophobic at all, so MRIs never bug me. When I was a kid I'd crawl into a sleeping bag head-first and try to turn around while inside so I could come out head-first too. I'd usually get stuck for a bit, but that was part of the fun.


flea - Aug 15, 2017 10:12:45 am PDT #15400 of 30002
information libertarian

Makeup: recommend an appropriate concealer or BB cream for an about to be 14 year old with age-appropriate acne who doesn't wear makeup regularly and whose mother is clueless about this stuff. Bonus points for not spendy.


-t - Aug 15, 2017 10:15:04 am PDT #15401 of 30002
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Hooray for benignity and Diana Krall and Ativan!

Good luck, tommyrot! Sounds promising.


Steph L. - Aug 15, 2017 10:21:49 am PDT #15402 of 30002
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

To be clear, I don't know yet that it's benign; last week's CT scan is what brought the nodule to my doctor's attention, but she told me that 99.5% of all adrenal nodules are benign weirdoes that are the equivalent of a polyp on the colon. But my doctor wanted me to have an MRI to be 100% sure it's just a benign weirdo.

So the MRI was for confirmation, but I haven't gotten the results back yet. I'm just assuming everything is cool in Adrenal Town.


Dana - Aug 15, 2017 10:23:16 am PDT #15403 of 30002
I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."

It would be open MRI or nothing, I think.

Or drugs! Drugs are an option. Though probably an open MRI is better, if it will serve the purpose, but when I tried to direct the doctor toward an open MRI for my back, he really preferred the traditional one. So I got myself sedated good.


Dana - Aug 15, 2017 10:29:08 am PDT #15404 of 30002
I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."

And a -ma request, because Husband is at his third interview for a job he'd really like (the job that brought us to Dallas having turned out...not super). So if you guys could vibe him to success, that would be great.


Calli - Aug 15, 2017 10:42:59 am PDT #15405 of 30002
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

Job~ma for Dana's DH!


Atropa - Aug 15, 2017 10:49:20 am PDT #15406 of 30002
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.

Makeup: recommend an appropriate concealer or BB cream for an about to be 14 year old with age-appropriate acne who doesn't wear makeup regularly and whose mother is clueless about this stuff. Bonus points for not spendy.

Nyx BB cream or Gotcha Covered concealer. NYX is one of the best drugstore brands out there, and their quality is on par with or better than MAC.


Zenkitty - Aug 15, 2017 10:51:50 am PDT #15407 of 30002
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.

Job~ma for tommyrot and Dana's DH!

I'm rather claustrophobic* but MRIs don't bother me. At least the one I had done didn't. It was open at head and feet, is that an "open" MRI?

'*(which I discovered while caving, crawling in a narrow tunnel under an obviously suspended giant rock, not the best moment)** (I made it out without serious incident thank the asthma med gods)

'**when did I become the adventurous one who will do honestly anything that doesn't look immediately deadly? (as long as it doesn't involve water. I don't swim) this is not how I think of myself