If we can stop touching our faces, our complexions will thank us!
Or so I tell my OMG FIFTEEN NEXT MONTH child.
Jayne: We was just about to spring into action, Captain. Complicated escape and rescue op. Wash: I was going to watch. It was very exciting.
'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.
P.M. Marc - Mar 10, 2020 6:08:32 pm PDT #17366 of 30019
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
P.M. Marc - Mar 10, 2020 6:08:57 pm PDT #17367 of 30019
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
(AND NILLY!!!! I miss your pixels!)
Steph L. - Mar 10, 2020 6:09:22 pm PDT #17368 of 30019
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Teppy,
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Ha! YES.
amyparker - Mar 10, 2020 6:47:41 pm PDT #17369 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.
Well, this is happening. I don't think I'm going to be hearing Tchaikovsky this weekend, unless it's on the radio.
Dana - Mar 10, 2020 7:01:05 pm PDT #17370 of 30019
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
I have concerts this weekend that I think will be happening, because there aren't many cases here yet. I'm less sanguine about, say, DragonCon, which is like 80,000 people over Labor Day weekend.
aurelia - Mar 10, 2020 7:53:09 pm PDT #17371 of 30019
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
Otherwhere online is a damned dumpster fire.
Ain't that the truth.
NoiseDesign - Mar 10, 2020 10:09:37 pm PDT #17372 of 30019
Our wings are not tired
Both of the Universities I teach at have announced they are going to online classes. I'm not sure how that works for quite a bit of the theatre curriculum.
I'm watching things cancel all around me and wondering if my business will be able to weather it. My entire career is dependent upon groups of people gathering.
Theodosia - Mar 11, 2020 1:03:58 am PDT #17373 of 30019
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
MA has declared a State of Emergency -- I notice a lot of states are doing it (it's the new black!) but it's good in the sense that state governments are getting in gear to deal even as the Fed fucks it up.
It seems ultimately ironic to me that the elderly Fox-News-addicted relatives -- likely to be the victims of the novel coronavirus -- are the most likely to be misinformed by their news sources.
Fiona - Mar 11, 2020 1:44:51 am PDT #17374 of 30019
There are very tough times ahead. I hope all Buffistas, their loved ones and their livelihoods come through OK.
...And in every cloud has a silver lining news: NILLY!
Re my offspring: I have one stroppy teenager and one brand-new adult - well, on paper at least. He has no clue what to do with his life and is currently spending day and night on front of the computer. Self-isolation seems to be the natural state of affairs for some people.
The start of the new semester was pushed back by 5 weeks yesterday, though we're not supposed to cut back on teaching. I am not entirely sure how this is supposed to work but I expect I will find out soon.
Stay healthy, people.
DXMachina - Mar 11, 2020 2:47:13 am PDT #17375 of 30019
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
My colleges are still open, but we are preparing for the worst, like if someone sneaks over the stateline into Massachusetts over spring break. We are all supposed to install Cisco WebEx Meetings so that we can do video conferencing with our students, so I did that, forgetting that I have neither a camera nor a microphone attached to my main machine, which kind of defeats the purpose. (My laptop has a camera at least, but I'll have to remove the piece of tape I stuck over it. Not sure if it has a microphone, but I have a stand-alone mic I can use. It'll work out.)
WebEx has a major annoyance. It assumes you will always have lots of online meetings to attend every single day, so it always loads and presents itself right in the middle of your screen upon startup. There is no in-software option to turn this behavior off. The only option is to remove it from your startup options in the operating system. Who frackin' designs software like this anymore?!?