I'm gonna say yes, Dana. As in "this coffee shop is totally chillax" or somesuch?
I know I'm a bad poet, but I'm a good man. All I ask is that... is that you try to see me—
William ,'Conversations with Dead People'
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.
-t - Dec 15, 2016 8:56:16 am PST #3840 of 30002
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Steph L. - Dec 15, 2016 9:20:42 am PST #3841 of 30002
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Sara, a friend of mine is having her gallbladder removed today (she was in Portland on vacation, had terrible pain, and the hospital there said she could wait to have it removed at home if she went straight to the hospital when she got home). She thinks she can go to a Christmas party Saturday night. That seems optimistic.
sarameg - Dec 15, 2016 9:41:58 am PST #3842 of 30002
Her Saturday is the equivalent of my last night and my gallbladder was no longer in inflamed attack mode when removed. Could I have gone to the wine night? Sure. But honestly, it was the first day I was permitted shower, first day all my plumbing was working in normal and expected ways, and I had no desire to get out of fuzzy pants or think too hard about finding a comfortable place to settle. I do think it is a Ymmv, and I'm actually a little surprised at how well I'm doing.* That said, I wouldn't say anything unless she's asking for other experiences for comparison.
Sometimes you need goals to avoid focusing on that thing now. Mine was teleworking by Monday so I could write this week off (and be surprised if it went better than planned, because that's what my brain needs.) Some people do rewards-goals. I do endurance-goals.
*(but I'm still fucking impatient about it.)
Steph L. - Dec 15, 2016 9:47:56 am PST #3843 of 30002
I look more rad than Lutheranism
That said, I wouldn't say anything unless she's asking for other experiences for comparison.
Yeah, I wasn't planning on piping up unless she asks. I just wondered if that was a bit too soon to be socializing. Plus the party is about an hour's drive north, and that seems like a lot of travel on a cold night (an hour up there and an hour back) when she could just be snuggly in her pjs.
sarameg - Dec 15, 2016 9:51:06 am PST #3844 of 30002
The travel would have been too much for me. Heck, I didn't want to put on enough clothes to be ferried to the grocery 10 minutes away this afternoon!
Dana - Dec 15, 2016 10:24:14 am PST #3845 of 30002
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
As in "this coffee shop is totally chillax" or somesuch?
Exactly.
Fred Pete - Dec 15, 2016 10:28:59 am PST #3846 of 30002
Ann, that's a ferret.
Just came in over the radio: verdict in the trial on the Emmanuel massacre in Charleston: guilty.
msbelle - Dec 15, 2016 10:32:04 am PST #3847 of 30002
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
Thank dog
Jesse - Dec 15, 2016 10:44:14 am PST #3848 of 30002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I would hope so.
The benefits of buddying up to the AP person -- remember when my expense report got rejected? She just told me that my boss got someone else's rejection overturned! Which I actually think is really unfair, and I'd rather have the moral superiority than the $100 at this point in my life.
Dana - Dec 15, 2016 11:09:49 am PST #3849 of 30002
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
I want to color in my coloring book and also huddle under three blankets. These two aims are not meshing.