A vague disclaimer is nobody's friend.

Willow ,'Conversations with Dead People'


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.


-t - Jan 04, 2022 5:04:32 pm PST #11894 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Oh msbelle that sounds awful! Much sympathy

My work is not at all interesting in its onerousness, it’s just…every year as the pressure builds during the Xmas shopping season we all naturally think “in January I’ll be able to breathe again” and then we get to January and hahahanope. I feel like this probably happens every year and I just forget.


-t - Jan 04, 2022 5:06:07 pm PST #11895 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, Sophia, WHAT?! None of that makes sense. What a mess.


Sophia Brooks - Jan 04, 2022 5:14:12 pm PST #11896 of 30000
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

Yes, the policy is that you can come with a positive PCR and no Self- reported symptoms but can’t come with no PCR??? Which it is now sort of too late to get?


Matt the Bruins fan - Jan 04, 2022 5:38:32 pm PST #11897 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

My next door neighbor thinks his post-holidays flu may in fact be Covid-19, so I'm invoking "UNCLEAN!" protocols and running the other way when we meet in the stairwell for the next week or so unless he gets a negative test result. I'm thankful that the amount of family togetherness over Christmas break has kept me from feeling like visiting friends the past week.


meara - Jan 04, 2022 6:12:20 pm PST #11898 of 30000

Msbelle and Sophia, that sounds like a shitshow, I’m sorry.

With the weather here and omicron I’m so feeling cozy burrow don’t leave the house but I need to remember that (a) it’s good for me and (b) I still need to reach out to friends even if I’m nesting.


Cass - Jan 04, 2022 6:24:58 pm PST #11899 of 30000
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.

I maybe should get tested, but the lines at the in-person sites are really long - several blocks with social distancing.

I've invoking the Unclean protocols on myself. Either this is and I don't want to expose people while I wait to test or it ins't and I don't want to be exposed while I wait to test. I'm isolated anyways. Omicron, sinus infection, blah and who can say.

God this country is a shitshow in places. I really hope we rise above eventually. At some point.


Jesse - Jan 04, 2022 6:53:00 pm PST #11900 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I will say, the several-blocks-long line I waited in last week only took an hour to get through, and I felt fine being outside for the vast majority of it with pretty much everyone in a mask.

But yes, everything is a shitshow. I'm especially sorry for you on the front lines of it, msbelle and Sophia!


msbelle - Jan 04, 2022 7:47:03 pm PST #11901 of 30000
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

Well I got through about 40 of the religious waivers. So now I’m going to bed and will go into the office tomorrow to set up a computer for a new employee that does not have any work, but if I can get him access to emails I can basically use him as an intern until his job duties start.


-t - Jan 05, 2022 7:39:58 am PST #11902 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

I really did not want to get out of bed this morning. But I did.


Tom Scola - Jan 05, 2022 8:32:24 am PST #11903 of 30000
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500

I got out of bed this morning because I wanted to watch Boba Fett before I got spoiled. But then I wanted to go back to bed.