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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.


meara - Feb 22, 2018 5:56:28 pm PST #22465 of 30002

That's super exciting, Jess!!

They do! They have a special slide section on one shoe I know that's extra slippy. Grippy elsewhere.

Yes. And if you forget you are wearing one you might, hypothetically, fall down and break a bone. Just saying.

I saw black panther!! It was visually stunning. I want a full length documentary on the costumes and set and hair and makeup.


Atropa - Feb 22, 2018 6:04:39 pm PST #22466 of 30002
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.

Jessica, that's great news! Flee! Flee the tech industry! Live the dream for the rest of us!


aurelia - Feb 22, 2018 6:06:57 pm PST #22467 of 30002
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.

Congrats, Jess!

I want a full length documentary on the costumes and set and hair and makeup.

NPR aired an interview with the costume designer.

Maybe Greitens can join some of the former IL governors.


Sue - Feb 22, 2018 6:14:28 pm PST #22468 of 30002
hip deep in pie

Woot Jess!


Connie Neil - Feb 22, 2018 6:39:04 pm PST #22469 of 30002
brillig

I was muttering to myself about Tara and Johnny being unable to shut up, and lo, my eye fell upon the mute button on the remote, and there was much rejoicing.


JZ - Feb 22, 2018 6:51:28 pm PST #22470 of 30002
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.

Good news: My brother made it through the first round of chemo and his blood work looked good enough that they sped up the timeline for getting him to stem cell transplant.

Yesterday was what was supposed to be the first day of The Harvest (that is what they call it for real). They planned to do as many days as they needed to in order to get 25 million stem cells, enough to freeze for multiple additional transplant rounds that they're hoping he will never need; harvesting sucks and they want to get enough cells the first round that the patient never has to go through it again. Typically it takes a few days to get the 25M, but with Lukas they got 31 million on the first try, the greatest harvest any of them had ever seen. So he's done and home and waiting for recovery, the next round and then transplant as soon as possible.

Not only was he brimming with stem cells, but both the doctor and the NP, in separate conversations, enthused over the "awesome" color of his cells. His husband said, "You guys need better hobbies."

So, he is bald and feeling like shit but ready for the next phase and his cells are officially awesome. Excelsior!


P.M. Marc - Feb 22, 2018 7:10:19 pm PST #22471 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

DAMN! That's a lot of cells. I'm glad he doesn't have to have even more harvesting.


P.M. Marc - Feb 22, 2018 7:10:48 pm PST #22472 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

And Jess, FLEE FOR THOSE OF US WHO CANNOT! And congratulations, that is awesome.


Dana - Feb 22, 2018 7:17:17 pm PST #22473 of 30002
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

Rock on, JZ's brother's cells!

And congrats, Jess!


Steph L. - Feb 22, 2018 7:20:10 pm PST #22474 of 30002
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

JZ, that sounds so great! Let's hear it for overachievement in this particular instance!