I’m so glad for you, Gud! I hope you give yourself time to find a great fit. Your skills are very much in high demand and you’ll have your pick of positions.
Wash: So, two days in a hospital? That's awful. Don't you just hate doctors? Simon: Hey. Wash: I mean, present company excluded. Jayne: Let's not be excluding people. That'd be rude.
'Ariel'
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 29, 2023 7:43:02 pm PDT #22940 of 30000
Punishingly Intricate
meara - Jun 29, 2023 9:39:00 pm PDT #22941 of 30000
Wow Gud that’s fast! Go you!!
I went to an indigo girls concert tonight—the beginning was stressful as it was “ZooTunes” and apparently they have to end promptly at 830 because of the neighbors, so they start promptly at 530!! Which meant even though I went pretty promptly after work it was already PACKED by the time I got there. But I found my friends and it was nice to hang out, even if they didn’t play some of the songs I was hoping for. I haven’t been to an Indigo girls concert in probably 15 years?
Tom Scola - Jun 30, 2023 7:11:02 am PDT #22942 of 30000
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500
The smoke is back. This time, accompanied by oppressive humidity. Do not like.
Matt the Bruins fan - Jun 30, 2023 7:33:43 am PDT #22943 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
Now that's just crazy talk! Who doesn't love breathing in wet, hot ash?
-t - Jun 30, 2023 8:58:57 am PDT #22944 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Ugh. I never thought "at least it's a dry smoke-filled air" would be a relevant addition to my weather-related small talk
brenda m - Jun 30, 2023 10:25:08 am PDT #22945 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
Less smoky here than earlier in the week but oppressively yuck nonetheless.
I saw Indigo Girls at Ravinia last summer and was kind of sad to be mostly unmoved. I enjoyed it but wasn’t really feeling the magic.
Didn’t help I suppose that Ani Difranco opened. Never a favorite of mine but the plantation stuff and general white feminist turn she seems to have taken, feh.
I miiiight have foot dragged a little getting there so we missed most of her set. But you can’t prove it.
meara - Jun 30, 2023 12:15:19 pm PDT #22946 of 30000
Hah Brenda—i was kind of annoyed at the friends I was with who were talking through the entire thing. Like, mostly that was fine (opener was Nemo Case and I don’t know her music) and a few of the songs I didn’t know from IG’s more recent album, but they were like yelling across me about thanksgiving (?!?) during Galileo and I was like could we maybe listen to the music for a hot sec? Really probably not worth $70 especially with the short set length but ah well.
JZ - Jun 30, 2023 12:47:00 pm PDT #22947 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.
Sending loads of empathy to the bad-air folks. California has been there, and it's awful.
I'm in the middle of my first full day of retirement and so far it's nice. I'm reading Robert Jones's The Prophets and undelightfully tearing my hair out over SCOTUS (but now at least I have time to look at what can be done to push back and then do it) and vicariously revisiting Greece through the LAistas' FB posts. I have $500 in farewell-gift bookstore gift certificates, but I can't really use them until we can figure out where to put another bookshelf and then buy it. Book prices have gone up, but not so much that $500 worth isn't going to impinge on everything and everyone in the house.
Steph L. - Jun 30, 2023 1:18:46 pm PDT #22948 of 30000
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
I'm in the middle of my first full day of retirement and so far it's nice.
Happy retirement!
I have $500 in farewell-gift bookstore gift certificates
What a perfect retirement gift!
Jessica - Jun 30, 2023 1:24:51 pm PDT #22949 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
The smoke is back. This time, accompanied by oppressive humidity. Do not like.
Now I know what it feels like to be a barbequed brisket.
the plantation stuff and general white feminist turn she seems to have taken, feh.
I haven't been following her closely in recent years, this is disappointing.