Timelies all!
Did not watch the news last night, and do not plan to watch tonight. I'm stressed out enough as is.
sj, I know how you feel. (and Mr. S also has the ODD/ADHD combo to make life interesting)
Mal: How drunk was I last night? Jayne: Well I dunno. I passed out.
'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.
Sheryl - Nov 04, 2020 2:55:10 pm PST #28799 of 30019
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"
sj - Nov 04, 2020 3:03:45 pm PST #28800 of 30019
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
I think ltc is going to end up with an ADHD diagnosis. She’s a peach in preschool so far, but it’s a lot of free play.
sj - Nov 04, 2020 3:04:42 pm PST #28801 of 30019
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
ION, ltc is so invested in the election that she isn’t throwing a fit that I have the news on.
amyparker - Nov 04, 2020 3:08:22 pm PST #28802 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.
At the risk of being an enormous asshole, I'm finding it really difficult to celebrate the wins in Wisconsin and Michigan because 2016 me just wants to scream WHERE WERE YOU WHEN I NEEDED YOU YOU SEXIST MOTHERFUCKERS.
Jessica speaks for me.
JZ - Nov 04, 2020 3:24:33 pm PST #28803 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 also speaks for me.
Apparently today is National Stress Awareness Day, and also National Candy Day? Consequently, I am eating chocolate while remarkably aware of my current stress level.
Sophia Brooks - Nov 04, 2020 3:26:15 pm PST #28804 of 30019
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
I am kind of putting my head in the sand. My mom and I are both pessimists, and we have alway thought Trump was going to win. The good thing about being a pessimist is you might get a happy surprise instead of a disappointment!
I have been taking the bus to work again, because I really need to be in the building for my sanity and I can't pay that much for Uber. I am going 2-3 days per week. Every day but today everyone has been well-masked or told to mask by the bus driver, good about distancing, and the busses were really empty.
Tonight, the following happened: A masked person and I got on the bus and social distanced. A third person, wearing a mask around his ears SAT DOWN RIGHT ACROSS FROM ME!!! ( A man wearing his mask on his chin sat in front of me. There is at this point SO MUCH ROOM on the bus. Several other mask wearers enter/leave etc, but at some point I notice 3 more people without their masks on their noses, a gaggle of talking people who took of their masks and had them on their chins, and A MAN WHO TOOK HIS MASK OFF TO COUGH!!!!!!! I GLARED at him and he covered back up.
The bus driver just kept playing the voice over thing that reminded people to wear masks. I really just about lost it, but I didn't really want to get in a fight on a bus if people were touchy about it. I wish I had been wearing my School of Nursing mask so I could have pretended to be a nurse as ammunition.
Jessica - Nov 04, 2020 3:34:35 pm PST #28805 of 30019
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Sophia, that sounds maddening.
Apparently today is National Stress Awareness Day, and also National Candy Day? Consequently, I am eating chocolate while remarkably aware of my current stress level.
I endorse this plan.
-t - Nov 04, 2020 3:36:47 pm PST #28806 of 30019
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Ugh, Sophia! I'm sorry.
I have no candy but I am very aware of my stress. So, half observant, I guess.
Atropa - Nov 04, 2020 3:47:38 pm PST #28807 of 30019
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Today I learned that asking the taller person in the house for help with your own willpower about snack food results in them putting said snack food at the back of the top shelf. In retrospect, this was not a good plan.
askye - Nov 04, 2020 4:53:37 pm PST #28808 of 30019
Thrive to spite them
Well I was feeling great because I safely got my hair cut but then I ended up talking to dad and I ... I ended up basically hanging up on him becuase I just can't. I will never ever understand how he can think the things he does and I wish I was more ignorant of his thoughts on things.
The big contention was over Covid response and how he thinks it's a crafted narrative that Trump didn't do as good a job as he could have about Covid and caused more deaths and there's no way to know if someone else had been President if there would have been a better response. Trump LITERALLY pushed conspiracy theories and fake cures--- that people believed. And maybe if he hadn't done htat it would have been a little bit better. Maybe we would have had 200,000 deaths instead of as many as we do which wouldn't have been great but something. Or if there was a better federal plan on dealign with a shortage of PPE but when I brought up that -- "I don't think that's true, that's just the story the media is creating."
Also Dad "I don't know why the ballots aren't getting delivered, the person in charge should be finding out why and making it right"
Me: The person in charge is the one who is creating the problems, and then I outlined what those problems were. And then dad pulled the "are you sure that was their intent, how do you know this"
because it's been reported on for months.