Cindy, ltc is cranky and miserable. She still has a slight fever even with medication, but her appetite is still great, and she says she can still taste everything fine. We ate in front of the TV and watched a movie with her, and then she went right to sleep. I have to keep her home until we have a negative test for her. TCG and I are both fine.

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But your candypipe is already assembled, whereas I'm estimating it will take Tim 4 hours to assemble the trashpipe.

I am earwormed with [link]

(side note - when MTV first showed the video, I couldn't understand the words, and they censored it to "**** Pipe" For some reason, I could not comprehend 4 asterisks and kept saying "What the hell is an Ass Pipe?"

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My anxiety is not doing great, either. I still need to pack my stuff for going to NJ, and get the kitchen cleaned, while also doing all my regular work, and my brain is not cooperating, and neither is my body. I'm sure that I'm going to forget something essential.

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Lots of health~ma to ltc.

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, I think even if your dad doesn't change his mind, you did a good thing in trying to bridge that gap and explain your own views. And who knows, maybe something you said resonated with some part of him, even if he'd never say so.

My stepmom voted for Prop 8 in California to deny same sex marriage. We talked for hours one day and maybe she just said it but. Think she meant it when she realized that she was hurting not only a lot of people but ME. I've gone on to date both genders but that talk was a pivotal chunk of hours.

"What the hell is an Ass Pipe?"

30 second spot in hell for you, young lady. For the earworm.

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OK, skimmed so I'm hoping I'm not leaving too much behind. As always, ~ma to y'all, especially these times.

Ouch indeed, meara. Glad they're on it.

Health~ma to ltc.

I'm very sorry about all anxiety and difficult political conversations, people. I know this feeling.

Also ~ma to askye. And happy belated birthday, aurelia!

I came here to say that people at school are wrong in my inbox (not just on the internet - in my bloody inbox) and relating directly to points that I have made and I need to be an adult and not to waste anymore time on trying to school them on media critique (and its existence) in a innovation and regulation class. It's bad enough to try and discuss bad and hurtful narratives with people who can hardly spot a narrative or think that it's unproblematic to simply take one as truth and at face value. It's somehow more annoying to take my years of wasted time online experience and ignore the emails in order to write more pressing assignments.

But they're wrong, people. They're wrong.

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ltc has no fever today, and is full of energy, but I can't send her back to school until I have the covid results.

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I'm glad she is feeling better, sj. I hope you get results today.

Shir, they are clearly wronger than people who are very wrong!

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Helath ~ma for ltc, sj. I have been thinking about you all, but I don't think I typed it in the box.

Butter chicken was good last night, and, as the recipe said, I have a bunch of sauce leftover to use over rice or more chicken or whatever, so... win.

My sister's family decided to cancel the group Thanksgiving at their place, and I'm glad about that, even though it sucks. Given that and why we weren't going to go, a notice from their governor, and the really useful FB post many of you shared (and I re-shared) yesterday, they were like, "Yeah... no." So it will be all Zoom all the time.

ETA: Words I learned from not getting them in yesterday's Spelling Bee - tontine, ollie (other than as a name), and nonillion. There were other words I didn't get, but I knew those. Also, iolite wasn't accepted, and I object! It's pretty.

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I think I need nachos.

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