She's not just a blob of energy, she's also a 14-year-old hormone bomb.

Spike ,'The Killer In 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.


dcp - Jan 31, 2023 4:52:01 am PST #20357 of 29980
"I yam what I yam and that's all what I yam," -- Popeye

I'm getting better at keeping the anxiety from seizing the wheel

This is good.


askye - Jan 31, 2023 6:05:06 am PST #20358 of 29980
Thrive to spite them

Susan, I know finding out there are pre cancerous markers is scary but you now have really important health information that you didn't have before and you can be proactive about this and take care of things while it's still precancerous.

So far the aspirin seems to be working on the flushing side effects.


Calli - Jan 31, 2023 1:04:53 pm PST #20359 of 29980
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

Well, the good-job-news~ma worked like a charm, y'all. I'm moving to a new position under my favorite manager, for more money, and with the chance to learn a bunch of cool things. And I didn't have to go through the interview process for it—my future manage just went to HR and said, "We need her on our team. Please make it happen." Yay!


Steph L. - Jan 31, 2023 1:08:17 pm PST #20360 of 29980
Apparently if you're enough of a power nerd, there is nothing that cannot be flowcharted.

Great news, Calli!!!


lisah - Jan 31, 2023 1:13:34 pm PST #20361 of 29980
Punishingly Intricate

That’s awesome, Calli!!!


-t - Jan 31, 2023 1:13:45 pm PST #20362 of 29980
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Congrats, Calli! That's so good to hear!


Susan W. - Jan 31, 2023 1:29:51 pm PST #20363 of 29980
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights

Yay, Calli!


Calli - Jan 31, 2023 1:34:52 pm PST #20364 of 29980
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

Thanks, y'all! I'm pretty chuffed. I've been at my current workplace for seven years, and I've felt a bit like I've been stagnating for the past year or so.


Trudy Booth - Jan 31, 2023 1:45:20 pm PST #20365 of 29980
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart

Great news, Calli!

I just really, really was starting to feel like I'd started kicking long Covid out the door, so the possibility reality of being Covid+ is stressful because what if the long Covid comes back? Without much sciencing to read up on, I don't know what to expect long-term.
Maybe your fresh crop of antibodies knocks out the long COVID once and for all? Purely anecdata, but my “tested positive, felt lousy for two days“ second bout in November put an end to the lingering fatigue and breathyness I’d endured since my proper scary first bout in the middle of September.


amych - Jan 31, 2023 1:57:15 pm PST #20366 of 29980
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

Congrats Calli! I'm so glad you're getting to stay with your team but also move up!!