askye - I am sorry, but I do not think this is a good household for you to be in.
Mal: You are very much lacking in imagination. Zoe: I imagine that's so, sir.
'Out Of Gas'
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.
msbelle - Mar 23, 2020 2:19:27 pm PDT #18530 of 30019
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
sj - Mar 23, 2020 2:30:55 pm PDT #18531 of 30019
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
I agree with msbelle.
Topic!Cindy - Mar 23, 2020 2:33:44 pm PDT #18532 of 30019
What is even happening?
I echo msbelle. I'm sorry you're going through this askye. They're dead wrong.
Medical student's disease is why I never really considered any kind of career in medicine. I'm very susceptible to suggestion.This is a thing I know about myself.
It's why I couldn't even watch House.
Matt the Bruins fan - Mar 23, 2020 2:46:56 pm PDT #18533 of 30019
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Medical dramas wouldn't drive me to imagine the worst, but I've been hypervigilant about sore throats and coughing the last couple of weeks. I really need to keep in mind that I have a long history of scratchy throats and minor congestion from allergies, and that I know people whose sinuses blew up in this same period thanks to pollen.
DXMachina - Mar 23, 2020 2:47:12 pm PDT #18534 of 30019
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
shelter-in-place
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
I agree with msbelle.
Me, too. Is there somewhere else you can hunker down?
DXMachina - Mar 23, 2020 2:51:22 pm PDT #18535 of 30019
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
I really need to keep in mind that I have a long history of scratchy throats and minor congestion from allergies
Yeah, this is me.
In other news, one of my students had another one of her professors e-mail me to see if I was dead...
The first day back from spring break is not going very smoothly.
meara - Mar 23, 2020 3:06:13 pm PDT #18536 of 30019
In other news, one of my students had another one of her professors e-mail me to see if I was dead...
Because the professor's email would get to you if you're dead, but hers wouldn't? :P
My roommate went to the ER and got tested yesterday, but was told 2-5 days to get results. Who even knows.
askye - Mar 23, 2020 3:07:19 pm PDT #18537 of 30019
Thrive to spite them
I don't have any place to go. I haven't seen mom because I was already worried about exposing her to stuff.
I could drive down to FL and stay at the beach but that doesn't really help anyone. Not to mention I'm supposed to go back to work next Tuesday. I don't know if they will happen. I also lost debit card and had to get a replacement and that will take a week.
My computer is in its own room so I'm pretty much just in here or the bedroom.
Even if this wasn't a pandemic situation and I wanted to break up or move out it would be really hard. Most of the shared loving options i can find are either out of my price range, sketchy, or college students .
-t - Mar 23, 2020 3:17:54 pm PDT #18538 of 30019
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Yeah, that's hard, askye. Protect yourself as best you can.
Theodosia - Mar 23, 2020 3:21:31 pm PDT #18539 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"
We had one of the residents go into an extended crying session today when she found out the little resident kitchen on the first floor wasn't stocking snacks or juice any more (don't want to encourage them to congregate -- I think it's wrong, but it's above my pay grade).
It wasn't one of those angry meltdowns, more like the last straw in a world gone strange and awful. The Wellness staffers were on it and ended up calling in one of her kids to talk and calm her down.
Me, I'm pro-snacks for all residents, it gives them back a little control over a slice of their lives at a time when comfort is hard to find.
askye, I'm sorry that it is working out like this. I really think you might consider going to your Mom or your Dad if work doesn't start up again. Taking a pause with Matthew's family (if it was just the two of you, that would be a different thing) might be needed.
I, too, would like to hear from Gud. I expect the work he does can mostly be WFH, it's just his family that may be freaking out, particularly his wife's counseling business, and how the kids are coping with school screwed up.