Giles, help! He's going to scold me!

Buffy ,'Never Leave Me'


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.


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.


-t - Dec 29, 2021 9:41:07 am PST #11739 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

I'm sorry about the shitstorm, Sophia, it does seem inevitable. Although it also seems very preventable if other people would just be sensible, which is even more frustrating.


Jesse - Dec 29, 2021 9:46:34 am PST #11740 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Ugh Sophia, good luck with all that. Just FOLD in the cheese.

I'm trying to get my old computer ready to bring in for them to transfer the data onto my new computer I am buying, and I can't figure out the password. IT people can get past that, right? Argh.


Steph L. - Dec 29, 2021 10:03:07 am PST #11741 of 30000
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe

Ugh Sophia, good luck with all that. Just FOLD in the cheese.

Sophia, we cannot show you everything.


sj - Dec 29, 2021 10:08:17 am PST #11742 of 30000
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."

ltc is at my inlaws house for two days! She woke up before 6 AM for them, and we slept in until 10:30. She is having so much fun that she could barely spare us 5 minutes on the phone.


Dana - Dec 29, 2021 10:18:13 am PST #11743 of 30000
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

How has this meeting already lasted 15 minutes?!?

It seems like we got through the family wedding and Christmas celebrations mostly unscathed. One person tested positive a week later, but no one else in her family, including kids.

I have such mixed feelings about it all. Was it a bad idea to have these gatherings? Probably. But it was also important to gather the family together. I'm angry that I missed two years in the lives of my parents and relatives. And the day after we got there, my parents had to put their dog to sleep, so we missed the last two years of her life when she was mostly healthy. (Sad animal news white-fonted)

Really pissed about all of that. Everything is such a fucking mess.


-t - Dec 29, 2021 10:50:26 am PST #11744 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

That's fair. Um, you being angry, I mean, not the meeting. I doubt the meeting's existence is in any way fair.


Sophia Brooks - Dec 29, 2021 10:57:01 am PST #11745 of 30000
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

Ugh Sophia, good luck with all that. Just FOLD in the cheese.
Sophia, we cannot show you everything.

Can you show me one thing!?!