All Saints Day is today, and All Souls Day tomorrow. It's no Viking ship on fire, but I will inscribe Connie's name on a leaf of the Tree of Life at my parish, and she can join the rustling and murmuring all month long as the wind rises and falls and rattles the windowpanes.
Wash: You want a slinky dress? I can buy you a slinky dress. Captain, can I have money for a slinky dress? Jayne: I'll chip in. Zoe: I can hurt you.
'Shindig'
Natter 76: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Foaminess
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.
JZ - Nov 01, 2019 1:46:54 pm PDT #12975 of 30019
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Zenkitty - Nov 01, 2019 1:48:14 pm PDT #12976 of 30019
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
I just read that we lost Connie Neil. I couldn't believe it at first, I read it three times thinking, no, OUR Connie Neil? I'm so sad. She had finally gotten to a point where she was happy again. Death is so unfair.
Java Cat, thank you for checking and letting us know.
sj - Nov 01, 2019 1:52:58 pm PDT #12977 of 30019
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Zen, when I read it this morning, I went back and checked Natter because I could have sworn she had posted recently. It just doesn't seem possible. She had such a presence, and like others have said she seemed to really be thriving.
msbelle - Nov 01, 2019 1:59:01 pm PDT #12978 of 30019
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
I was offline all day. Man.
shocked.
Calli - Nov 01, 2019 2:09:56 pm PDT #12979 of 30019
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Damn. I'm sorry to hear that Connie's gone. I always loved to read her perspectives on things.
Steph L. - Nov 01, 2019 2:31:08 pm PDT #12980 of 30019
I look more rad than Lutheranism
I just read that we lost Connie Neil. I couldn't believe it at first, I read it three times thinking, no, OUR Connie Neil?
Zen, when I read it this morning, I went back and checked Natter because I could have sworn she had posted recently. It just doesn't seem possible.
Honestly, I haven't cried yet, because I've had "What the FUCK?" on a loop in my head all day. It doesn't seem real.
sj - Nov 01, 2019 2:47:48 pm PDT #12981 of 30019
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Same, Teppy. I'm mostly angry and not fully accepting it as real.
Pix - Nov 01, 2019 2:53:17 pm PDT #12982 of 30019
The status is NOT quo.
Dammit, dammit, dammit. I don't have words to say what I'm feeling. Just...sad I guess. I wasn't close to Connie, but I always loved her utter lack of caring what "people" thought. Parker, so sorry for your loss, and for anyone else who was close to her. Java Cat, thank you for going to look and letting us know.
Trudy Booth - Nov 01, 2019 3:17:37 pm PDT #12983 of 30019
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
Just saw the news about Connie.
Then I went back through her FB page and her post on October 2 has me literally queasy. And crying harder.
When I was a kid and had an ache of some sort, it wasn't the thing to take anything for it unless it was big, which it rarely was. "It'll go away after a while, tell me if it doesn't." Colds were treated with tea and curling up on the couch. So toughing through the pain until it went away has been the norm for most of my life. Tonight my lungs were aching, the bronchial tubes hurt, a new cold is giving me sinus pressure, and I just wanted to cry. It didn't occur to me for a couple of hours that I have decongestants and otc painkillers, and I'm fucking allowed to do things to make me not hurt. I don't hurt right now, but I still feel like I failed somehow.
Oh, and my appointment with the pulmonologist is next week. I've been waiting for it for three months
Hey... maybe three months is too fucking long.
I'm no expert on this obviously... but my cardiologist and my pulmonologist are in contact about my various treatments and I assume there's good reason for that. Dear God what if she'd had that appointment right away?
-t - Nov 01, 2019 3:38:27 pm PDT #12984 of 30019
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I'm mostly angry and not fully accepting it as real.
Yes, this.