Sending love to Liese and Maria and anyone else who is hurting. I was behind in here and just started to catch up.
Spike: You pissed in the Big Man's Chair? That's fantastic! Gunn: Spike, can you please turn off that warm fuzzy? Spike: What, the Lorne thing? Worn off. I just think that's bloody fabulous.
'Life of the Party'
Spike's Bitches 49: As usual, I'm here to help you, and I... are you naked under there?
Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
Pix - Sep 28, 2017 3:03:46 pm PDT #2027 of 8213
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie
aurelia - Sep 28, 2017 8:07:38 pm PDT #2028 of 8213
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
Liese, if the IL portion of your travel is near Chicago, I'd be happy to lend an ear, or a hideaway.
Vortex - Sep 29, 2017 4:17:33 am PDT #2029 of 8213
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
Wish I could be in D.C. with you Sorella.
askye - Sep 29, 2017 8:32:27 am PDT #2030 of 8213
Thrive to spite them
I had a job interview. It went really well. Although I realized I forgot to ask some questions but the guy skipped over q bunch of stuff he would normally ask because of my experience.
I would be selling women's clothes or accessories. Which means I need clothes and accessories...well I have some but not this kind of wardrobe. Full time there is 30ish hours. If you work 30wjatever hours for 26 consecutive weeks you are full time.
So I will have less than 30 hours but for now this could be good for me. I was worried about being confident and seeming like a sales person but that's how I was. I realised it's a persona I can slip on and in the past I've burntout trying to be that all the time. But I don't have to be it's a persona or a mask and is like a uniform . After work I take it off.
Fingers crossed I get it. The guy did say he was going to be out of town but said he'd be intouch and gave me his cell number so I think that's a good sign
Laura - Sep 29, 2017 8:38:41 am PDT #2031 of 8213
Our wings are not tired.
Well done, askye. Yes, I would say giving you his cell number was a good sign.
Hil R. - Sep 29, 2017 4:11:54 pm PDT #2032 of 8213
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
I can't get new painkillers until Monday, because the office didn't call me until half an hour before they closed to tell me that I could pick up the prescription. I can't take too much Advil, because it's irritating my stomach, but I'll take some. Fuck.
Hil R. - Sep 29, 2017 5:26:49 pm PDT #2033 of 8213
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
I'm only semi-fasting for Yom Kippur. I'm having water and meds. And I'm probably going to end up sleeping most of the day tomorrow -- there's no way that any of my joints can handle going to even a regular Shabbat service, but definitely not the several hours of a Yom Kippur service.
DavidS - Sep 29, 2017 9:06:04 pm PDT #2034 of 8213
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Ugh, we share our back porch with our other neighbors on the top floor.
And when I'm back in my nerdhole I can hear what's happening on the porch.
And the neighbor guy is out on the back porch making a deal with some other guy about buying a car and he's saying all this racist shit.
And it's...how would you say. Not KKK, NeoNazi, Alt-Right racist. More like casual South Park Libertarian Reddit TechBro racist.
Aware enough to speak about the advantages of being in a monoculture (of white techbros) with an undercurrent of "those people" and "not safe for his kid to ride on the bus" (because...not a white monoculture).
I don't interact with him much, but he knows better than to let his mask slip around our family. But, I've eaten his BBQ in the backyard and now I know he's a shitty fucking racist techbro from Nevada.
Also superboring car conversation about "not my favorite transmission, I drove the CTI..." blah blah blah - but laced with casual racism.
This is like when the coworker I was very friendly with let slip some similar shit about why she didn't want BART access in her suburb because "the wrong people" would have access to her town. (Like freeway exits had checkpoints or something.)
Laura - Sep 30, 2017 6:49:58 am PDT #2035 of 8213
Our wings are not tired.
Ugh, I hate that David. On one side you know they have some level of knowing it is racist because they keep that side hidden from you, but ignorance is bliss? I've had the same experience and it sucks. I may live in a bubble, but I love my bubble.
I'm so sorry that you don't have a reasonable solution for pain, Hil.
Connie Neil - Sep 30, 2017 7:25:50 am PDT #2036 of 8213
brillig
(Like freeway exits had checkpoints or something.)
But those people can afford cars. There was a great to-do when the metropolitan bus system was coming into our valley, and people were terribly upset about poor people moving around.
People still complain about how the buses aren't used, ignoring the fact that half the buses stop running at 6 PM on week days and the most used routes run every twenty minutes at most and only during commute hours. So the people without cars have trouble getting to their jobs and people with weird shifts don't have a way home at night etc etc. I'd ride the bus and train, but the bus back to the train from my office has its last run at 6:20 pm, and I've only gotten off work in time to make that twice in the last month.