I'm nominally at work (from home, or rather from the teeny office space we're subletting from a local therapist who won't be having in-person sessions until spring at the earliest), but even our manager is only just barely pretending to do any actual work today. We're all just group chatting and stressing and meeping at each other.
Let him do his thing, and then you get him out. No messing with him for laughs.
Mal ,'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.
JZ - Nov 04, 2020 9:47:33 am PST #28741 of 30019
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Jessica - Nov 04, 2020 9:50:35 am PST #28742 of 30019
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
even our manager is only just barely pretending to do any actual work today. We're all just group chatting and stressing and meeping at each other
I had to do a phone interview earlier and it was the most stressful 45 minutes of my entire day but now I can go back to looking at baby animal gifs and stress-eating nachos.
Katerina Bee - Nov 04, 2020 9:59:08 am PST #28743 of 30019
Herding cats for fun
Am I logged in? Reckon so. I had to enter my name and password over and over.
I don’t want to keep up with today’s news.
Jessica - Nov 04, 2020 10:07:23 am PST #28744 of 30019
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I would really like to be cautiously optimistic but so far this election feels like everything that went wrong in 2000 and 2016 all at once. (Please do not reassure me with data. I am looking at the data. My blood pressure is unconvinced.)
msbelle - Nov 04, 2020 10:08:57 am PST #28745 of 30019
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
No political discussions when working for government, it seems.
I am very weepy though.
bennett - Nov 04, 2020 10:17:52 am PST #28746 of 30019
I've lived in both red and blue parts of Texas and it seems to me that the divide between the two is just getting worse and worse. Neither side is trying to bridge the gap and, if they do, they get taken down by their own people: The title "There's Nothing in the Middle of the Road but Yellow Stripes and Dead Armadillos" seems to really define things these days.
My family's lived in Texas for something like 4 generations, but I think it's time to move on.
meara - Nov 04, 2020 10:22:54 am PST #28747 of 30019
Yeah this is so stressful and depressing. I’m still cautiously hopeful but bummed that there’s no way we get the senate.
sj - Nov 04, 2020 10:25:58 am PST #28748 of 30019
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
We’ve been home 10 seconds and ltc is throwing the most epic tantrum. I’m doing my best to avoid it and not feed it.
Laura - Nov 04, 2020 10:35:31 am PST #28749 of 30019
Our wings are not tired.
No matter what the final result is, and I think it will be Biden, it doesn't take away the fact that nearly 50% of my fellow citizens think Trump being president is just fine and dandy. I don't want to know or be near any of these people. Even the ones related to me or that I have known all my life. There is no way I can except this kind of thinking. I can't get past this.
Steph L. - Nov 04, 2020 10:42:39 am PST #28750 of 30019
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
it doesn't take away the fact that nearly 50% of my fellow citizens think Trump being president is just fine and dandy. I don't want to know or be near any of these people. Even the ones related to me or that I have known all my life. There is no way I can except this kind of thinking. I can't get past this.
I'm not trying to be cynical, but I'm not surprised that half the country is a bunch of bigoted shitbags. 2016 brought it to my attention, and I sure didn't expect that they'd have a change of heart en masse. Plus, people who live by the principle of "fuck you; I got mine" aren't going to change being such selfish fucks.