Sudden urge to watch Pushing Daisies
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.
You know, if she can't touch anyone because they'll die. . .she could have just said that.
Remember my problematic "friend"?
Oh dear. This is the same friend with the drinking issues?
I'm sorry about the pain, but I'm not sorry that you're kicking a toxic person to the curb.
Zen, you're better off without her. That is not someone who will bring joy to your life.
I came to the board right before Tim set Nilly-fest into motion. It was through a google search, but don't ask me the keywords I searched for. Best decision I ever made though. Thank you for becoming my family.
When my world falls apart, this is where I come, even if it is only to see that you are still here in the box.
So much this. Outside of my immediate blood family, you were the only ones I wanted to be around after Rob died. You were the reason I was half as strong as I was. Thank you is not enough, but it's all I've got.
Thanks, y'all. I'm feeling pretty relieved to be done with her. She was causing me more stress than I realized.
Now that you mention it, Maria, I think I joined just as Nillyfest was kicking off, because I remember being amazed by it.
So Saturday I channeled my rage into cleaning my house and I'm quite pleased about that. Better than punching! Hurts about the same but less risk of jail time.
A coworker pointed me toward Table Talk many years ago, where I found the Buffy threads. I posted occasionally but was much more of a lurker. I lurked my way along to b.org. My first big F2F was the Nillyque in San Francisco with only one small F2F dinner before that.
Y'all have seen me through my kids growing up, my bachelors, my divorce and move to Colorado, my kids and their college experiences, and now me and grad school. I've had the luck to be able to meet folks when traveling, I have been the recipient of your support, and I've tried to pay that forward where I can. There are times I consider dropping a note to the old coworker with a completely random and unexplained "Thank You".
Yeah, Zen, that's beyond ridiculous. Especially since she couldn't understand why it was offensive.
I had to take a wee nap. Con weekend + time zone change + DST weekend + late flight = need for sleeeeeep.
"Please don't touch me, I'm uncomfortable with being touched" is a perfectly fine thing to say and have one's personal bubble respected. Making it about a quality of the other person that's presented as objectionable is where the trouble lies.
Timelies all!
Zen, you are definitely better off without that "friend".
A friend/co-worker (hard to classify, I've spent a lot of weekend shifts with him, but that's the extend of the relationship) is in the hospital with heart issues, he collapsed here at work last weekend. His work/life balance is weird, he works almost straight through from Friday night to Sunday night, I'm not sure what he does during the week. I'm not sure if I know him well enough to go to the hospital, or how long he'll be there. Plus, he's on the cardiac floor. I don't think I can go back there yet, and I'm not sure if it's "Introvert doesn't want to push into a social interaction" or "Dear god, I'm not ready to smell hospital smells yet."
edit: Oh, well, he's getting out in the next couple of days anyway, and I wouldn't be able to see him till the weekend. So there's that.