Hell, I don't know. If I had wanted schooling, I'da gone to school.

Jayne ,'Ariel'


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.


askye - May 15, 2020 3:34:48 pm PDT #21309 of 30019
Thrive to spite them

Work was.. just tiring today ..all the assholes came out. My temp was a teensy bit higher today when they did the check but nothing alarming (97 something instead of 96 something)but my stomach was bothering me this morning and so one of the managers sent me back up to retake it and it was 95 something so I stuck it out and think my stomach is just my bad diet.


amyparker - May 15, 2020 5:39:55 pm PDT #21310 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.

Teppy, I had to go in for my annual this week, and I was not best pleased about it. They wouldn't renew my prescriptions without it. Still have to make an appointment for my mammogram.


sarameg - May 15, 2020 7:00:42 pm PDT #21311 of 30019

My rheumatologist is like 'telemedicine & your labs have been consistent for a year, I'm not comfortable changing anything over vid if you are stable if not best so I'd rather you skip labs unless you feel a change until we've got some control.' My meds are immunosuppressants, so I'm supposed to call immediately if I get sick with anything. And she's a new mom. I'm good with her.


billytea - May 16, 2020 2:19:37 am PDT #21312 of 30019
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.

Happy Friday, North Americans. (Happy week-end, billytea!)

Thank you! And happy weekend to you too now, I think?

We've received the word that Ryan will be back at school from 1 June. Lots of new hygiene and social distancing measures, of course. I'll be sorry to see him go back really, but it had to happen sometime. Fingers crossed I won't have to go back to the office for a while yet.


Shir - May 16, 2020 2:51:12 am PDT #21313 of 30019
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".

Yay no stitches!

I don't know how to buy shoes online. As in, in a way I won't have to return them because of size and comfiness issues. I want new comfy flat shoes for the office as there's a good 7-11 (celsius) degrees difference between indoors and outdoors so I tend to freeze there during summers, and I never figured how to understand if a shoe I never worn before will be comfy from just looking at it online and measure my feet.

I'm also deeping my toes back into German online. I went to the verb conjugations explanation section with all of the English warnings that it's difficult and complex and began to laugh. Oh my sweet summer child, have you heard of Hebrew verbs conjugations?

I am not filled with confidence, motherfuckers.

I'm very sorry Steph and this is very frustrating, but I also think I need this on a pin. Possibly embroidered on something, too.


dcp - May 16, 2020 4:43:58 am PDT #21314 of 30019
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.

verb conjugations...difficult and complex

Hah! That reminds me of a couple of bits from the '80s Britcom I've been re-watching lately, Yes, Minister .

Bernard Woolley:

"That's one of those irregular verbs, isn't it?

  • I give confidential security briefings,
  • you leak,
  • he has been charged under section 2a of the Official Secrets Act."


"That's one of those irregular verbs:
  • I have an independent mind,
  • you're eccentric,
  • he's 'round the twist."


Shir - May 16, 2020 4:51:34 am PDT #21315 of 30019
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".

Oh, wonderful!

I really need to re-watch it too. I am after all an MPA student now.


Jesse - May 16, 2020 5:02:48 am PDT #21316 of 30019
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I don't know how to buy shoes online. As in, in a way I won't have to return them because of size and comfiness issues.

I don't think that way exists. Even buying the same style in different colors doesn't reliably work for me.


Sophia Brooks - May 16, 2020 5:42:58 am PDT #21317 of 30019
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

I hope you feel better, askye.

I think you just have to be willing to return shoes. Although I am usually good with Danskos in the size I know fits me. But I bought the exact same Steve Madden combat boots on Amazon (like I actually repurchased) and they are different!! They have been my go to shoes for a couple of years- I appropriated a pair from the costume shop and they go with everything in the winter. But this time they are different.


-t - May 16, 2020 6:12:52 am PDT #21318 of 30019
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Shoes are tricksy

I have to leave the house today to pick up groceries and I don't wanna, wanna sleep