I'm pretty concerned about my nails as well -- I did a crappy job on them Thursday night and am not sure they will hold out til the end of the week. At least the color is light, so it won't be noticeable if they don't.
But if the world doesn't end, I'm gonna need a note.
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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.
Jesse - Apr 17, 2018 7:15:23 am PDT #24457 of 30002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
msbelle - Apr 17, 2018 7:22:50 am PDT #24458 of 30002
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
I want to do zero work. I also want to eat all the food. Alas I am at work and my car is at shop so I cannot leave.
Jesse - Apr 17, 2018 7:23:51 am PDT #24459 of 30002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I also want to do zero work! Alas.
-t - Apr 17, 2018 7:29:41 am PDT #24460 of 30002
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I want to do zero work and I kind of have nothing I need to do. It's weird. But I guess I need to be here in case something comes up? Meh.
amych - Apr 17, 2018 9:46:08 am PDT #24461 of 30002
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Remember how nice it was on LJ where you could turn comments off and on for a particular thread or post, even after it was underway?
-t - Apr 17, 2018 9:58:08 am PDT #24462 of 30002
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Ooh, I bet I know what brought that on. Yeah, that does seem like a desirable feature, doesn't it?
Dana - Apr 17, 2018 10:00:22 am PDT #24463 of 30002
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
As always, let me know if you want me to shut up.
And honestly, the whole thing for me is tied into this weird experience I had yesterday, where I refrained from commenting on a high school classmate's post. He's close friends with people I'm close with, but we were never connected that closely.
He posted about an NYT oped (I think), written by a black man, working through feelings of "should I just give up on white people." And I was going to comment, my response being, "Since black people can't go into Starbucks or ask for directions, why not?", but it felt like kind of performative woke white woman charges into black people's social media space to show what a good ally she is.
amych - Apr 17, 2018 10:22:50 am PDT #24464 of 30002
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Dana, nope, you're fine! (As is everyone who's jumping in with excellent points while also keeping it remarkably civil.)
Steph L. - Apr 17, 2018 10:23:35 am PDT #24465 of 30002
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Things you learn in medical editing: there is an ophthalmic condition called "progressive outer retinal necrosis", and clinicians do indeed abbreviate it "PORN". (Even though I wanted to leave it in the article, I had to delete it, because it wasn't used a second time, and we only leave abbreviations in if they're used more than 5 times.)
billytea - Apr 17, 2018 11:24:24 am PDT #24466 of 30002
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Things you learn in medical editing: there is an ophthalmic condition called "progressive outer retinal necrosis", and clinicians do indeed abbreviate it "PORN". (Even though I wanted to leave it in the article, I had to delete it, because it wasn't used a second time, and we only leave abbreviations in if they're used more than 5 times.)
Have you ever before had to make an edit because a submitted article just didn't have enough PORN?