teens they don't considerate
they're full of pissy
angry hate

they take and they take and they take

but we keep giving anyway
we push and we prod
then we break
and we make our mistakes

Yes they are the reason I'm gonna cry
While I try to teach them to survive
I'm not really making it
I am only faking it

I less than three msbelle

wonderful, msbelle

Damn, msbelle. I wish it didn't ring so true.

It's not even a bad day. the first stanza was just going through my head. I like making a new word with considerATE to rhyme with hate.

I think I did the thing. I think it's kind of done. The last chapter made me cry and I don't, ever.

Also my brain is jello also there are actual nazis in the real.

Can we do the island now.

I would happily join you on any island anywhere, lovely hippo!

I would happily join you on any island anywhere, lovely hippo!

Indeed.

What the shit. The Editor-in-Chief outranks her. I do what the Editor-in-Chief says. I guarantee if I had gone ahead and done what Coordinator said she wanted me to do, she would have replied with "There is a note from the Editor-in-Chief that says you should do XYZ; why did you ignore that note???" No way to win on this one.

I would have cced the EIC and replied "In the future, when there is a discrepancy between policy and direction from the EIC, how would you like me to handle it?"

People who leave less than a cup of coffee in the communal carafe without making a fresh pot should be banned from the commons earth.

Fixed that for you.

I do have somewhere to go--my comfy chair with the entire run of Avengers movies on the TV.

YES. When will people understand that saying "I plan to do nothing" IS a plan.

Like, photos I took is a little too "look how cool I am I went cool places!" --and because I'm always the one taking photos all my photos of me are selfies.

Not any less cool than "look at my happy family!"

Hallmark stores tend to have boxes of fairly decent cards, and it seems like it worked out to about $1/card the last time I bought some.

I won't do more than $1 a card. I often will get them on sale on Black Friday. When I'm not too lazy to send them. Which has been many a year.

Hey, in the department of Good News Finally -- Tim gets blood tests every 2-3 months because of his RA and the meds he takes for it. In January his c-reactive protein level (a marker for inflammation) was unbelievably high, like almost 20 (on a scale where "high" is 3 [yes, three]). His result today was less than 1, which is remarkably good.

So even though he still has pain and stiffness (though that has improved somewhat), based on his test results, his body seems to have stopped destroying itself.

Take that, 2016.