A ghost? What's the deal? Is every frat on this campus haunted? And if so, why do people keep coming to these parties, cause it's not the snacks.

Xander ,'Dirty Girls'


Natter 77: I miss my friends. I miss my enemies. I miss the people I talked to every day.

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 - Oct 17, 2021 4:43:52 pm PDT #10011 of 29865
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"

Timelies all!

Went to a Pumpkin Festival at a semi-nearby orchard. Ended up with tickets for 4 pm since that’s what was available. It was kind of cold and windy, but Mr. S seemed to enjoy what he did (big slides, bounce pad, hayride and corn pit) and we ended up with a bigger pumpkin than we would have liked.


askye - Oct 17, 2021 5:09:05 pm PDT #10012 of 29865
Thrive to spite them

I visited with my aunt today and saw my grandma. She's so frail looking. According to my aunt she hasn't been drinking anything , although she did have some ensure while I was there. I had been hoping that Grandma would be aware I was there but she wasn't. I held her hand and my aunt and I talked some and then we went back to the living room.

I have been worried that my aunt has been so wrapped up in being a caretaker that when Grandma does die it will be hard for her to have the freedom etc. But she has plans for the "next phase" of her life and told me about her plans to renovate her place and get new furniture and to hopefully be able to travel . She was happy and upbeat about it. She wouldn't be doing this alone she has a ...special man in her life.


EpicTangent - Oct 17, 2021 5:36:57 pm PDT #10013 of 29865
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty

That's good she's prepared. I couldn't allow myself to think of my mom's death so I was a little unprepared. The guilt I felt at enjoying my sudden freedom was unexpected.


Cass - Oct 17, 2021 5:40:36 pm PDT #10014 of 29865
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.

But she has plans for the "next phase" of her life and told me about her plans to renovate her place and get new furniture and to hopefully be able to travel . She was happy and upbeat about it. She wouldn't be doing this alone she has a ...special man in her life.
Good for her. It a lot to Care for another. Glad she has plans and will also care for herself.


EpicTangent - Oct 17, 2021 5:41:52 pm PDT #10015 of 29865
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty

I'm watching a new (to me) procedural out of Australia (Halifax: Retribution on PBS) and one of the main characters has a late teen-early twenties daughter who looks so much like Matilda it's messing with my head.


Laura - Oct 18, 2021 6:29:58 am PDT #10016 of 29865
Our wings are not tired.

I'm glad you got to see your grandmother, askye. It is good that your aunt is looking forward. One of the biggest grief issues for caregivers is the feeling of not being needed anymore and preparing for that is huge.


Laura - Oct 18, 2021 6:48:32 am PDT #10017 of 29865
Our wings are not tired.

Is it wrong that when I heard about the death of General Powell that my first thought was at least I didn't have to hear nothing except Senators Manchin and Sinema news for a day?


Steph L. - Oct 18, 2021 7:24:24 am PDT #10018 of 29865
Apparently if you're enough of a power nerd, there is nothing that cannot be flowcharted.

That's better than my first thought, Laura, which was: why couldn't it have been Trump instead?


Topic!Cindy - Oct 18, 2021 7:28:10 am PDT #10019 of 29865
What is even happening?

Right there with you, Tep. My first thought was: "Really, Walter Reed? You saved TFG, and you couldn't save Powell?"

Laura, I've had the news off for the last couple of days, because it was really doing in my head. I can't say I feel that much better, but the worsening has stopped. I can't keep being so mad at people and things I can't change.


Trudy Booth - Oct 18, 2021 7:40:38 am PDT #10020 of 29865
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart

I am rickety too. The mask somehow makes it so I have no depth perception at all, and I already had poor depth perception.

Sophia, I feel you. The first time I wore a mask I discovered in the face-plant-on-the-sidewalk way that peripheral vision isn't just to the sides and that I look at the ground more than I realized.

Any other fully-hearing person discover just how much they read lips to understand what people are saying?