Also, gotta vent: they failed to perform a successful lumbar puncture on me this evening after NINE ATTEMPTS. I think they were going to keep trying, but I had to put a stop to the utter bullshit insanity.
So tomorrow I get it done under x-ray.
Gunn: The final score can't be rigged. I don't care how many players you grease, that last shot always comes up a question mark. But here's the thing. You never know when you're taking it. It could be when you're duking it out with the Legion of Doom, or just crossing the street deciding where to have brunch. So you just treat it like it was up to you—the world in balance—'cause you never know when it is.
'Underneath'
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.
amyth - Nov 11, 2019 2:07:30 pm PST #13386 of 30019
And none of us deserving the cruelty or the grace -- Leonard Cohen
amyparker - Nov 11, 2019 2:09:47 pm PST #13387 of 30019
You've got friends to have good times with. When you need to share the trauma of a badly-written book with someone, that's when you go to family.
NINE?!? Oh, hell to the no.
Sophia Brooks - Nov 11, 2019 2:10:22 pm PST #13388 of 30019
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
Oh no. That sounds terrible
Jesse - Nov 11, 2019 2:18:27 pm PST #13389 of 30019
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Oh nooooo. Yikes.
Aargh. Nigel head of the theatre wants to know if I am better and wants to meet. I basically want to just throw him off a roof. I really just wanted to try a month with no theatre to see how it felt. Can I tell him to fuck off, politely, until December?
100%
JZ - Nov 11, 2019 3:01:33 pm PST #13390 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.
Dammit, amyth, that's awful. Who are these people? Isn't there some grizzled OB/GYN veteran who's been doing spinals on people in labor since forever they can drag in?
Amy - Nov 11, 2019 3:15:04 pm PST #13391 of 30019
Because books.
Seriously. Nine tries is way beyond okay. After two they should have called someone else in!
Sophia, tell him no! With glee!
Sophia Brooks - Nov 11, 2019 3:44:28 pm PST #13392 of 30019
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
So a reply like
Nigel, thank you for your concern. I can be available to meet after December 1st.
Would. Not be nutty? I honestly think I won't go back.
Jesse - Nov 11, 2019 3:46:06 pm PST #13393 of 30019
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
No, that would totally be fine.
Jesse - Nov 11, 2019 3:46:20 pm PST #13394 of 30019
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
(I might just say "after Thanksgiving," though.)
amyth - Nov 11, 2019 3:49:14 pm PST #13395 of 30019
And none of us deserving the cruelty or the grace -- Leonard Cohen
One of the drawbacks of an otherwise excellent teaching hospital. It was being performed by an attending, a resident and I think an intern? The attending was hands off because he wanted the other two to learn. So they tried seven times, and I finally said, "At what point do we call this a failure?" And they said, "When the attending can't do it." So the attending gave it two tries, and I said, "At what point do we decide to switch to doing this via x-ray?" And the attending said, "Right now." I think he would've kept going. He kept saying how he almost had it, but he could hear that I was Over It, and he backed off.
Sophia, I think that's a perfectly reasonable response.