I gave her everything... jewels, beautiful dresses -- with beautiful girls in them.

Spike ,'Sleeper'


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.


Zenkitty - Apr 09, 2018 2:30:36 pm PDT #24210 of 30002
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.

I would watch a Murder She Wrote Golden Girls crossover!

Me too. That would be cool.

Anxiety~ma, Zenkitty. I'm sorry you are stuck in this pattern.

Thanks, -t. I'm working to break it but I feel like I don't know what to do instead of distraction/avoidance. I mean, besides go Do The Thing, of course, which is the heart of the whole problem.

Today it occurred to me, in a week this will all be over and done. In a week I'll have had a business conference and a vacation with a friend, and I'll be happy and exhausted and curled up in bed with my cats recovering, and somehow thinking of that made me feel better. Like, I could see beyond the immediate freakout. That was good. Then I went and got a decent meal and on the way remembered to take out the trash, so that was also good.

Business trip can be stressful, Zen. Hell, traveling is stressful.

It's true... but I'm never stressed about the normal things. I'm stressed about dumb little things that don't really matter. Like, I'm not scared of flying, I'm not worried about the conference, I'm worried about what if I pack The Wrong Clothes?

In weird things my brain decides to tangent on, I'm starting to get a wee fearful of how isolated I may get from the world if I move and live alone again.

msbelle, that happened to me... but I did it deliberately. You're gregarious and outgoing and you like people. You'll soon have a circle of friends. And as -t says, you'll probably move somewhere where you already have friends. And living alone means having a house to go to and shut the door and be alone when you want to be.

This morning Dad had his first fully lucid visiting hour since they put his chest drain tube in last week.

That's good to hear, Matt.


msbelle - Apr 09, 2018 2:44:28 pm PDT #24211 of 30002
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

Murder She Wrote Golden Girls crossover

NOT ONE fic on Ao3. Someone needs to request this for Yuletide.

note - there are two connected OC / Murder She Wrote fics and THREE connected Stargate Atlantis / Murder She Wrote fics.


Dana - Apr 09, 2018 2:51:27 pm PDT #24212 of 30002
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

So when Trump snaps, is he going to fire Mueller or Sessions first?


lisah - Apr 09, 2018 2:55:28 pm PDT #24213 of 30002
Punishingly Intricate

I'm starting to get a wee fearful of how isolated I may get from the world if I move and live alone again.

I can guarantee if you move here you won't be isolated unless you want to be.


Zenkitty - Apr 09, 2018 3:10:48 pm PDT #24214 of 30002
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.

So when Trump snaps, is he going to fire Mueller or Sessions first?

I'm betting Sessions, because he feels personally betrayed, but it depends on who's the last person who speaks to him before he blows.


Burrell - Apr 09, 2018 3:17:19 pm PDT #24215 of 30002
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!

I'm so sorry, -t

And msbelle, I recommend moving to the LA area because then I can hang out with you a whole lot more than I get to now. :-D

But in a broader sense, I think it's becoming clearer and clearer that single family homes and single apartments isn't a good fit for a lot of people. I get that living alone works well for some, but I'd rather have people around me, even when those people are driving me crazy. I vote more communal living.


SuziQ - Apr 09, 2018 3:41:05 pm PDT #24216 of 30002
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame

I'm betting Sessions, because he feels personally betrayed, but it depends on who's the last person who speaks to him before he blows.

So a human version of hot potato?


msbelle - Apr 09, 2018 4:02:38 pm PDT #24217 of 30002
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

I am really really up for having a housemate - like really really. Co-owners or me buying a place I can more or less afford alone and having housemate pay a rent they can afford.

Feel free to send applications.

The move should be happening either fall/winter 2019 or early 2020.


Zenkitty - Apr 09, 2018 4:06:26 pm PDT #24218 of 30002
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.

msbelle, do you know where you're moving to?


sarameg - Apr 09, 2018 4:09:50 pm PDT #24219 of 30002

One interview down, 2 to go. Guys, I've been 'on' for strangers for the majority of the past 4 days (I don't count breakfast with my friend in Durham or the drive) and I've got 2 more. I'm hosting the interviewees, so that means that after the interview(padding built in for questions, shuttles to other site, etc) & before lunch, show them around & chitchat. Unlike some of my colleagues, I don't just park them in the room with couches (which I'm appalled by, but not uncommon practice), I bring 'em back to my office and don't talk work, just normal stuff you'd do with a newly met stranger.I think I'm doing a really good job of it, but it's exhausting. But I feel it is only fair. Especially for this position, which is entry level, so nerves in abundance.

Also, this person is gonna be my minion. I gotta like you.