Happy birthday, JZ!!!!
Giles: Helping out with the dishes makes me feel useful. Dawn: Wanna clean out the garage with us
Saturday? You could feel indispensable.
'Dirty Girls'
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 - Jun 27, 2023 12:16:13 pm PDT #22904 of 30000
Punishingly Intricate
Gudanov - Jun 27, 2023 2:41:23 pm PDT #22905 of 30000
Coding and Sleeping
Happy Birthday, JZ!
askye - Jun 27, 2023 3:10:18 pm PDT #22906 of 30000
Thrive to spite them
Happy Birthday JZ!
JZ - Jun 27, 2023 4:25:52 pm PDT #22907 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.
Thanks, everyone! I am celebrating by napping, mostly. Later Emmett will be over and we'll have some dinner and watch something (my choice, but I haven't decided yet). I finished conference, felt momentous, and then listened as everyone completely forgot it was my last time and just bickered their way into the next meeting. Ah, well. They'll feel some pain next week.
meara - Jun 27, 2023 5:29:47 pm PDT #22908 of 30000
Happy birthday JZ! They will absolutely miss you....but I hope you get to do a little fun in retirement, between trips to LA.
erikaj - Jun 27, 2023 5:31:07 pm PDT #22909 of 30000
Always Anti-fascist!
Yes. This.
aurelia - Jun 27, 2023 5:47:46 pm PDT #22910 of 30000
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
Happy birthday, JZ!
And belated happies to those I've missed recently.
I am just emerging from 7 intense weeks of a beast of a show. Opening was last night! All I want to do is nap.
Susan W. - Jun 27, 2023 7:43:40 pm PDT #22911 of 30000
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
Happy Birthday, JZ!
Alex graduated from high school yesterday evening. I surprised myself by crying--I rarely cry at all, having socialized myself never to do so after being teased for being a crybaby in first grade--not so much for Alex specifically as for the whole class. He went to the most alternative of alternative schools in this city, one of those quirky places where they don't hand out grades and the curriculum is as experimental as it can be while still meeting state graduation requirements. Something like 50% of the student body identifies as LGBTQIA, and it tends to be sort of a refuge for kids who just don't quite fit in or have had troubles, academic, personal, or otherwise, at other schools in the system.
And they were all so beautiful in their quirky individual glory. Since there were maybe 50 kids total, we got to hear little pieces of all their stories. So many of the kids thanked the school and teachers for believing in them, for not giving up on them. There was just so much joy, so much grace, in seeing those kids celebrate themselves and each other, that I had to cry with it.
brenda m - Jun 27, 2023 9:07:40 pm PDT #22912 of 30000
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
That’s lovely Susan. I can’t believe Alex us so grown!
JenP - Jun 28, 2023 6:08:30 am PDT #22913 of 30000
That's lovely, Susan. And congrats to Alex.
The birdie what whispers to me sometimes wishes to share the news that today we celebrate the day that David, aka Hecubus, aka Mr. Zmayhem entered the world.
Many happy returns of the day, David! I hope there's a fancy cocktail and some yummy food on the docket. Happy Birthday!