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Mayor ,'Lies My Parents Told Me'


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 - Oct 05, 2018 4:47:17 pm PDT #447 of 30019
Thrive to spite them

There was a tiny anti Kavanaugh demonstration in front of our courthouse in town. I think there have been bigger ones but this seemed to be a spontaneous thing.

Someone locally is planning a weekend of healing. I guess they are calling it that so women can do spiritual healing, yoga various things to help deal with the stress.

M and I are leaving for the beach tomorrow. We will have 6 whole days and 2 travel days and I am ready.

Work is stressful. No one is applying and we need about 7 people. I have no idea how we are going to cover our Christmas hours. And people are blatantly stealing from us but we are short handed so they get away with it. We don't see them but we are finding packaging left out in the open.


Dana - Oct 05, 2018 4:51:12 pm PDT #448 of 30019
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."

Jesus, my husband is on the phone with a friend from a previous job, and she's a type where tons of stuff is always going wrong in her life, and I just do not have the mental space to listen to her shit right now.


flea - Oct 05, 2018 4:57:15 pm PDT #449 of 30019
information libertarian

Last weekend I did passport applications for a family and the mom was a black female public defender and she was wearing an Auntie Maxine Reclaiming My Time t-shirt and I felt it would be unprofessional to say "hell yeah" but tried to convey that sentiment with my eyes.


sj - Oct 05, 2018 6:00:09 pm PDT #450 of 30019
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."

I am once again not sleeping because I'm filled with so much rage, and I think I'm getting a cold.


-t - Oct 05, 2018 8:53:59 pm PDT #451 of 30019
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

I'm sorry, sj. That blows.


shrift - Oct 06, 2018 4:20:18 am PDT #452 of 30019
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty

Made it to Dublin. There's a match on at the football stadium nearby, and the pub staff indicate that they'll be flooded when the match ends. I hope I'm out of here before that happens.


Jesse - Oct 06, 2018 4:44:28 am PDT #453 of 30019
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I heard a bunch of great music last night, and that was just the pre-event! Am excited for today and tomorrow, where I will be hearing and playing a ton more!! I was ignoring the world, which has been amazing, but listened to some podcasts this morning to make sure my rage doesn't totally go away.

Also, I just heard one of my houseguests say to my cat, "you're going to have to move to Canada - you're a celebrity now." (The houseguest is Canadian.) Hee!


sj - Oct 06, 2018 5:14:23 am PDT #454 of 30019
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."

Enjoy Dublin, shrift, but definitely avoid the post football match crowd if at all possible.


sj - Oct 06, 2018 5:47:51 am PDT #455 of 30019
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."

I'm at my volunteer job at my library bookstore where I usually get quiet time. Instead I get political conversations raising my blood pressure.


-t - Oct 06, 2018 5:47:53 am PDT #456 of 30019
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Yay Dublin! Yay music!

OK, I am damn well doing something with today. First stop, breakfast.