Eeep. My hockey game is tied and I am hoping for my team to lose. What will be will be.
Zoe: What's that, sir? Mal: Freedom, is what. Zoe: No, I meant what's that? Mal: Oh. Yeah. Just step around it. I think something must've been living in here.
'Out Of Gas'
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.
Laura - May 12, 2023 7:05:26 pm PDT #22216 of 30000
Our wings are not tired.
JZ - May 13, 2023 7:15:24 am PDT #22217 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.
Wait, why do you want them to lose?
Bum side of private suite, no windows. However, that let me sleep and sleep and sleep the infusion away, which let me stay awake most of the night, which makes me think there's more than one bum side to private suite.
All the private suites have mezuzahs in the doorways, which his definitely not a bum side.
dcp, I'm so sorry, for him, for you, for his wife and all the what-ifs.
Happy belated, toddson! Whenever I hear/read your name I think of the first time I saw you in person, all dressed up for the F2F prom in DC, and thinking, "She's the most regal, majestic person I've ever seen."
Also not bum, I spat out a 10K word story. Waiting for the right time to post (apparently there's Greenwich Mean Time and new story alerts and what-all to consider), but I wrote again! I don't care if it's fic, it's writing and it doesn't suck and I'm just so happy.
Consuela - May 13, 2023 8:02:23 am PDT #22218 of 30000
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
YAY writing! I'm so happy for you, JZ.
I feel like about the time my mother died so did most of my drive to write. I still read a lot of fic, but my creative output is limited to the yearly 3-sentence ficathon these days...
JZ - May 13, 2023 8:13:18 am PDT #22219 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.
I feel like about the time my mother died so did most of my drive to write.
I'm so sorry. It seems like the worst loss to get past in so many ways. Writing could still happen again, though. I know I had no expectations of ever writing again after a couple of decades without, and then *bam* I got hit up sideways by a new show that broke open all kinds of locked-up things in me.
Laura - May 13, 2023 8:19:49 am PDT #22220 of 30000
Our wings are not tired.
Wait, why do you want them to lose?
If our team didn't clinch the series last night they would have played at home tomorrow and we had tickets. But they won! Which cool, they go to the next level, but no doubt the tickets will be seriously pricey. I mean it was over $500 for the last round, and that is as far as my loyalty goes. I'll be refunded now that they won the series. Likely can get full-season tickets for next year for less than the next-round tickets. Anyway, go Panthers!
"She's the most regal, majestic person I've ever seen."
Indeed. I remember this well.
but I wrote again! I don't care if it's fic, it's writing and it doesn't suck and I'm just so happy.
And this makes me happy!
JZ - May 13, 2023 8:28:47 am PDT #22221 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.
I mean it was over $500 for the last round, and that is as far as my loyalty goes.
Yeah, if I'm paying over $500 for a ticket, the end of the sentence had better be "to Paris/Athens/London."
amyparker - May 13, 2023 11:01:05 am PDT #22222 of 30000
You've got friends to have good times with. When you need to share the trauma of a badly-written book with someone, that's when you go to family.
I was today years old when I learned that Peacock is streaming the Eurovision final, starting at 12PT. Johnny Weir is presenting.
(I will be watching the Beeb's stream - Johnny, ILU, but the UK is hosting and Hannah Waddingham is presenting and Graham Norton is providing commentary, wouldn't you rather be watching this?)
erikaj - May 13, 2023 12:06:30 pm PDT #22223 of 30000
Always Anti-fascist!
I thought it might be a draft-pick thing, Laura. Which is rather close to my sum-total sports knowledge really, but I am pretty good at seeming like I know to people that don't.
meara - May 13, 2023 12:12:58 pm PDT #22224 of 30000
Fun, Laura! I’ve been enjoying the Kraken on tiktok because they are basically just posting to entering booktok there. It’s pretty funny.
I am grateful for migraine meds, I did wake up at 8am today and it’s now noon and I’ve done nothing but nap, but at least I’m not in pain anymore.
More disturbingly this is the first really nice weather we’ve had this year and it has brought out more guns—I heard a looooong round of shooting last night as I was going to sleep, apparently it was about 4 blocks away. Not good.
DavidS - May 14, 2023 10:12:15 am PDT #22225 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Got to the hospital a bit early (after swinging by the French bakery) and the got us started instead of making us wait. Then our proactive nurse got permission to speed up the pump so it would be done in time with the hydration. So we’ll only be here 2 hours and out by 11:30.
Plenty of time to get to the airport for our 3:30 flight.
I got to see both Phil and Rio on this trip which helped break it up considerably. Also we got to spend more time pool side (in the shade) which is definitely the best perk of this hotel (aside from its walking distance to the hospital).
So fingers crossed we achieve a timely exit velocity.