It's anxiety attack Tuesday, apparently. How are you all doing?
Everybody plays each other. That's all anybody ever does. We play parts.
Saffron ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
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 - Jun 30, 2020 5:31:13 am PDT #22967 of 30019
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
Steph L. - Jun 30, 2020 5:36:32 am PDT #22968 of 30019
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
It's anxiety attack Tuesday, apparently. How are you all doing?
I was literally just about to post that my anxiety has shot through the goddamn roof today.
msbelle - Jun 30, 2020 5:39:50 am PDT #22969 of 30019
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
WOOHOO! or something. sisters in anxiety.
Completely related to my anxiety, cross-referencing excel spreadsheets on a single laptop screen on a deadline for your big boss is NOT IDEAL.
Jessica - Jun 30, 2020 5:54:43 am PDT #22970 of 30019
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
It's anxiety attack Tuesday, apparently. How are you all doing?
Oh, right on schedule then. Yay?
-t - Jun 30, 2020 5:58:30 am PDT #22971 of 30019
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Ugh, msbelle, I feel you on the excel. I find myself doing that a fair amount of the time (with and without deadlines) and it sucks every time.
Sorry if I am bogarting all the calm. I think my old friend Denial is paying a visit.
Laura - Jun 30, 2020 5:59:55 am PDT #22972 of 30019
Our wings are not tired.
I managed to go the first 66 years of my life never really feeling stressed or anxious at all, and now the past few months that has all changed. I'm going to say if you aren't anxious right now something is amiss.
sj - Jun 30, 2020 6:35:44 am PDT #22973 of 30019
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Also right on schedule here.
Scrappy - Jun 30, 2020 6:41:33 am PDT #22974 of 30019
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Yeah, I could not get to sleep until 4:00 am. Just too many gears whirring around in my brain. I'd be lying there and realize my shoulders were hunched up with tension.
sj - Jun 30, 2020 6:51:12 am PDT #22975 of 30019
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Scrappy, I was also up until 4. We had a big storm, and I was in too much pain to sleep.
amyparker - Jun 30, 2020 7:05:53 am PDT #22976 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.
I was actually hoping people would be more interested in the research, as for me that's been the fascinating part . . . I've been helping the granddaughter of a woman who was adopted in Kansas in the late 1930s. I was the first close match who'd come up; once my mother tested, we were able to narrow her potential fathers to one of my great-uncles.
There's a book that came out this year on consumer-grade genetic testing, Libby Copeland's The Lost Family, that features Alice Collins Plebuch's search for her father Jim's genetic family as the thruline. It discusses genetic privacy, "ethnicity estimates" (population scientists: oh Lord please stop), big data sets, the rights of adopted/donor-conceived children to accurate genealogical and medical history weighed with their biological contributors' right to privacy - it's a dry read in places, but I recommend it.
For me, I finally have context for how my family reached this unbelievably fucked-up place: there are literal generations of trauma that narrowed people's focus to survival. I have a great deal more compassion for everyone's bad choices.