Also going back a little, I missed askye’s birthday! Happy Birthday askye!
Happy Birthday Plei!
One of you is gonna fall and die, and I'm not cleaning it up!
Mal ,'War Stories'
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 - Jun 19, 2022 10:42:15 am PDT #15749 of 30000
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
Scrappy - Jun 19, 2022 1:11:13 pm PDT #15750 of 30000
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Happy Plei day! This is the first week of my summer vacation and it will be delightful not to get up at 6:30. I love my job (I’m a paraprofessional in a life and work skills program for young adults with Autism, for those who may not know), but not the 8 to 3 hours. It’s so hard to go to bed at a reasonable time when you have night owl tendencies. But now I have weeks and weeks to stay up late and sleep until 9. Heaven.
JenP - Jun 19, 2022 3:41:27 pm PDT #15751 of 30000
Scrappy! Hello!
Happiest of Plei Days, Plei.
I love my job (I’m a paraprofessional in a life and work skills program for young adults with Autism, for those who may not know
I did not. That is awesome. Do you happen to have any contacts, suggestions, etc. for a program like that for the Metro DC area? Or where a reputable place to research that might be? For a friend with a son who is about 22 and struggling; she's looking at options right now.
Sheryl - Jun 19, 2022 3:45:18 pm PDT #15752 of 30000
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"
Timelies all!
Happy Birthday Plei!
Got my hair cut in a salon for the first time since the pandemic started. Usual cut-took off a few inches and evened things up. (The hairdresser blew it out straight, so we'll see how long it is when I let it air dry as I usually do.)
Scrappy - Jun 19, 2022 3:50:08 pm PDT #15753 of 30000
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Jen, I don’t, sorry. I know the local Michigan programs, but nothing national. It’s an underserved community for sure.
JenP - Jun 19, 2022 3:59:05 pm PDT #15754 of 30000
So freaking true. Well, Michigan peeps are lucky to have you in the trenches, I know that.
Matt the Bruins fan - Jun 19, 2022 3:59:25 pm PDT #15755 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
Tom Scola - Jun 19, 2022 4:30:59 pm PDT #15756 of 30000
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500
25K steps today.
Split into two parts with a nap in between.
Steph L. - Jun 19, 2022 4:44:02 pm PDT #15757 of 30000
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
25K steps today.
Way to bounce back from Covid!
JZ - Jun 19, 2022 8:50:02 pm PDT #15758 of 30000
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Impressive, Tom! Just, please be careful. I get all anxious about long covid biting my friends in the ass, and I want everyone's ass thoroughly unbitten by long covid (other entities I suppose are okay as long as there's active consent, but long covid better back off).
Happiest of Plei Days! Until next year's Plei Day, and the one after that, and so on. But happiest as of right now!
I'm so weary. So, so weary, and so grateful that tomorrow is a holiday. But right now I'm sitting in our drinky parlor drinking a drink and successfully internetting with the assistance of a mesh system that I managed to get up and running just a couple of hours ago, and it's starting to feel no longer completely unreal.
I have trimmed down my book collection considerably.
At this point I admit that I'm super resistant to any further trimming--I got rid of ~500 books when I moved in with Hec and put another ~200 into storage at my dad's place, culled further and put another couple hundred into storage when Matilda was born, have continued culling every couple of years since then, was too broke to buy any books at all for a good five years, and lost at least half of the stored books when my dad's place burned down. I *know* I still have an abnormally large number of books, but it just emotionally feels like too many have disappeared under duress or via trauma, and I may be able to rationally evaluate and cull them sometime in the future, but that time is not now. And, honestly, we now have a big-ass attic and, as trauma responses go, "unwilling to further cull the book collection" is relatively benign, so I'm granting myself an Act of Grace for the time being on this one.