Angel: Connor, this is Spike and Illyria. Guys, this is Connor. Connor: Hi. umm...I like your outfit. Illyria: Your body warms. This one is lusting after me. Connor: Oh...no, I--I--it's just that it's the outfit. I guess I've had a thing for older women. Angel: They were supposed to fix that.

'Origin'


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.


Matt the Bruins fan - Dec 28, 2021 2:55:01 pm PST #11729 of 30000
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand

Just think Steph, you have the vax to thank for your new mutant powers!


Steph L. - Dec 28, 2021 2:57:31 pm PST #11730 of 30000
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe

Just think Steph, you have the vax to thank for your new mutant powers!

I promise I will not blow myself up to test my mutant healing factor.

MAYBE.


-t - Dec 28, 2021 3:00:25 pm PST #11731 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Work up to it gradually. Blow someone else up first. As a control.


Steph L. - Dec 28, 2021 3:04:25 pm PST #11732 of 30000
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe

Work up to it gradually. Blow someone else up first. As a control.

That's just good science.


Dana - Dec 28, 2021 4:11:20 pm PST #11733 of 30000
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

After finally getting to bed at 3 and kinda-sorta working, I happily headed off to my massage appointment. Which is on Thursday.


Karl - Dec 28, 2021 4:19:49 pm PST #11734 of 30000
I adore all you motherfuckers so much -- PMM.

Scheduled Moderna booster (my first two shots were Pfizer) for Jan 25. Kaiser is making appointments for a month out, which reassures me that demand for boosters is still strong out here.

Not much holiday news -- we're staying at home except for my daily walks, and folks in our neighbourhood give each other lots of space on the road/sidewalk.

Wishing all of you good outcomes and slog-through-it-ma.


Kate P. - Dec 28, 2021 4:47:36 pm PST #11735 of 30000
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love

We made it to Cleveland, and I remembered how to drive in snow!


Sophia Brooks - Dec 28, 2021 6:40:31 pm PST #11736 of 30000
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

Yay Mr. S negative Sheryl.

Yay driving in snow Kate.

Did I mention that now my work is requiring the booster for students to come back. But there are no details until after New Year. They start on January 10th. And my students are weird and can’t go through University Health Services. I am gearing up for another shitshow. Why can no one have a plan? Or at least a plan that takes into account these little pockets of students? My students aren’t “on break”- they are still doing clinical hours. Also, I am just randomly stressing about this on vacation, but January is already sort of a shitshow for me work wise, and September was SO BAD.


shrift - Dec 29, 2021 6:11:46 am PST #11737 of 30000
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty

Sophia, I want to tell you to stop worrying and enjoy your vacation, but I'm pretty sure you're going to have another absolute shitshow on your hands, so...

I'm still testing negative for COVID and I'm scheduled to fly back to California tomorrow. When a relative asked me yesterday if I was going to stay in Michigan through my birthday, I managed to reply with a breezy no even though I wanted to say, "Are you fucking kidding me?" I'm ready to be in my own home by myself.


Sophia Brooks - Dec 29, 2021 9:38:42 am PST #11738 of 30000
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

I think I just need to have radical acceptance that this will happen and it will be terrible. I feel like I am stuck being David in an eternal loop of “fold in the cheese” from Schitts Creek.

I am glad you are testing negative.