I'm a single undead gal trying to make it in the big city. I have to start somewhere and they're evil here. They don't judge. They've got necro-tempered glass. No burning up. A great medical plan, and who needs dental more than us?

Harmony ,'Conviction (1)'


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.


SuziQ - Nov 29, 2017 6:56:06 am PST #19344 of 30002
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame

Offer~ma! Very cool, Laura.


Jesse - Nov 29, 2017 7:39:17 am PST #19345 of 30002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Wow, that's huge! Good luck to them.

My job is stressing me out, because I'm never doing enough or enough of the right things or something. I think it will be OK, but JFC. I think it's partly because people's sense of urgency here is weird. My boss was telling me to do some planning and meeting and stuff, in a way that made me feel like I should have already done it, but then suggested I do it in January! Well, shit. So now I'm stressed out about it AND it's fine! Catch up, brain.


meara - Nov 29, 2017 7:42:22 am PST #19346 of 30002

I hear ya Jesse. I keep thinking it will get better...my current hope is once I'm off the one project I'm on the new one will be better? But it could be frying pan into the fire situation. Eek.


P.M. Marc - Nov 29, 2017 8:06:25 am PST #19347 of 30002
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear

Ooof, I've had two friends told (for years) they were crazy/hysterical/all-in-their-head despite manifesting physical symptoms for major chronic illness. And yes, the medical gaslighting is incredibly damaging. Gee, were they both women? You know how hysterical women get.

Yep, this this this.

And it's so frustrating.


-t - Nov 29, 2017 8:27:27 am PST #19348 of 30002
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Good luck to the kids, Laura!

I hear ya Jesse and meara. I have no idea how to prioritize what duties I have been shown how to do, so I just do whatever and occasionally someone will say something is actually urgent but mostly nothing seems to be and it's very weird.


EpicTangent - Nov 29, 2017 9:00:40 am PST #19349 of 30002
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty

Thanks, Steph! I took a picture of the screen with the recipe on it, so hopefully I won't lose it again.

this feels like madness after 12 years of being told it's nothing/ it's all of these things that it wasn't / it's anxiety! (it's not anxiety, jerks)

I'm so glad you're being acknowledged! I'm sorry it took so long, and so much energy, to get to this place. Fingers crossed for helpful plans that make a positive change!

Offer-ma to Little B and GF!

Due to one thing and another, I got to/had to devote a good bit of attention this week to a project I've been neglecting, due to other priorities and general not-enough-hours-in-the-day. So it's great to have moved some of it off my desk and to have been able to impose a little order on it. But now I have a pretty good handle on how Very Far Behind I am. I miss ignorance.


Jesse - Nov 29, 2017 9:24:47 am PST #19350 of 30002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

But now I have a pretty good handle on how Very Far Behind I am. I miss ignorance.

Heh. Sorry.


Theodosia - Nov 29, 2017 9:40:47 am PST #19351 of 30002
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"

Hey, Jesse! I gave a Lyft ride to a woman from WGBH who does fundraising for Masterpiece Theatre -- wasn't that in your part of the work world for a while?


Jesse - Nov 29, 2017 10:37:36 am PST #19352 of 30002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Absolutely! She was probably a major gifts officer. Did you ask her about Darlene Shiley?


EpicTangent - Nov 29, 2017 10:53:44 am PST #19353 of 30002
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty

I always assume Darlene Shiley is from here - one of the associated buildings of my mom's hospital is the Shiley Eye Center. Different Shiley, or does she get around?