No, it's shiny! I like to meet new people. They've all got stories...

Kaylee ,'Serenity'


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.


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?


Jesse - Nov 29, 2017 11:05:00 am PST #19354 of 30002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Same Shiley! [link]


Calli - Nov 29, 2017 11:13:11 am PST #19355 of 30002
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

Damnit, Keillor. [link]


Nora Deirdre - Nov 29, 2017 11:24:41 am PST #19356 of 30002
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)

I am absolutely not surprised about Keillor, he always seemed like White Privilege Smuggy McSmuggerson. Not a huge leap (for me) to Significant Lechery.


Dana - Nov 29, 2017 11:36:30 am PST #19357 of 30002
I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."

Oh, my god, says person on Facebook! Where will this end? If 6 out of ten women have been harassed, will all of these men have to resign? The country can't handle 25% unemployment!

Yes, I think to myself, that's definitely the big problem right now. The potential looming unemployment of a mob of sexual harassers.


-t - Nov 29, 2017 11:37:40 am PST #19358 of 30002
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Not a shock, no.

Gah. I spent like an hour matching up receipts to this one company credit card statement only to see as I was winding it up that someone else marked it verified 10 minutes before (so, while I was working on it). What a friggin' waste of time.