Happy birthday, sj!!!
I'm sorry, askye. That sucks. I wish you could find another job. I feel like you'd be great at online customer support.
It's not like she blew me off. She just left with another guy, that's all.
Riley ,'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.
lisah - Jul 03, 2022 10:52:29 am PDT #16067 of 30000
Punishingly Intricate
Sheryl - Jul 03, 2022 1:30:14 pm PDT #16068 of 30000
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"
Timelies all!
Happy birthday sj!
Had some major thunderstorms last night, so we didn't see any fireworks. Could hear some from our house, but it was still raining hard, is I don't know how that worked.
askye - Jul 03, 2022 3:46:11 pm PDT #16069 of 30000
Thrive to spite them
lisah I think right now anything I do would be really hard and exhausting. I only had to deal with maybe 6 customers but they all kind of came at once and trying to go through all the steps was draining. Plus before that I had been working on organizing some racks that was mentally fatiguing as well.
I do want to look at something different but right now I need to just do what I can while my brain is healing.
I'm pretty sure right after the concussion at work I forced myself through worse feelings but I'm trying not to push myself too hard. I know I need to but not too hard. Today I did take a break and I felt better but as soon as I was trying to do stuff it just went down hill again. It started to feel more like disassociation and I've learned when that happens and I can't stay focused all it's time to stop.
sj - Jul 03, 2022 5:10:31 pm PDT #16070 of 30000
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
I have had a cosmo and a lemontini and I’m more than a little tipsy.
Tom Scola - Jul 03, 2022 5:14:30 pm PDT #16071 of 30000
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500
Happy Birthday, sj.
I’ve been battling apathy for, like, the past 2+ years. Today I somehow managed to find the motivation to clean my apartment. While it’s a huge improvement over the recent status quo, it’s even still kind of gross in here. It’s kind of disheartening.
Emily - Jul 03, 2022 5:18:38 pm PDT #16072 of 30000
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
sj, I highly approve of your alcoholic choices. High flavor and alcohol content to match.
I am taking some community college courses and getting mad on a regular basis. I'm a big fan of community colleges in general but MAN I've got some issues with some of these pedagogical choices. I know it's a) summer and b) asynchronous online but you can't scold your students halfway through the semester for not responding appropriately to your discussion questions when you NEVER TOLD THEM HOW! Or, well, you can. But you shouldn't. Also of course the research project which asks us to do kinds of analyses that are never discussed in the textbook. And the part where the only instruction provided is the textbook and the hourlong recorded lectures in which she reads from the slides that go with the textbook for, as far as I can tell, the very first time.
Emily - Jul 03, 2022 5:19:51 pm PDT #16073 of 30000
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
Tom, that's a huge accomplishment. Congratulations! I'm sorry for the grossness though. Is it deeper-cleaning grossness or age-and-wear grossness?
Tom Scola - Jul 03, 2022 5:27:31 pm PDT #16074 of 30000
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500
Both. I really need to get my apartment renovated, but that seems way too daunting for me at this point.
Dana - Jul 03, 2022 5:50:59 pm PDT #16075 of 30000
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."
You are not alone, Scola. Envision husband and me cleaning in advance of the in-laws' arrival. There are places where the dust was practically sentient.
Steph L. - Jul 03, 2022 6:41:00 pm PDT #16076 of 30000
the hardest to learn / was the least complicated
You are not alone, Scola. Envision husband and me cleaning in advance of the in-laws' arrival. There are places where the dust was practically sentient.
Us, too. Tim vacuumed the house today for the first time since probably...March? Possibly earlier. And we have a cat, so. It was as gross as you'd expect it to be.