Wtf, msbelle. Good luck with the outside the department apps
What? She killed 'em with mathematics. What else could it have been?
Jayne ,'Objects In Space'
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.
-t - Sep 07, 2023 6:40:18 pm PDT #25178 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
DavidS - Sep 07, 2023 6:50:53 pm PDT #25179 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Flight arrived at 7pm.
Got rental car after an hour long wait and just got checked into the hotel 9:45.
I had to drive unfamiliar Atlanta freeway roads in the dark, dammit!
Also, this room is weirdly averse to working outlets. There isn't one at the desk and the ones by the desklight don't work, so my phone is plugged into the bathroom and my laptop is plugged into the light behind the chair.
I really want to crash but my nephew is weirdly a minute away so we're meeting at the hotel bar.
Dana - Sep 07, 2023 6:54:41 pm PDT #25180 of 30000
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."
Hotel room outlets are always shit.
Jesse - Sep 07, 2023 7:01:12 pm PDT #25181 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I mean, I get it, it's only been 20 years since people would be carrying devices they would want to charge and not just hairdryers.
DavidS - Sep 07, 2023 8:50:11 pm PDT #25182 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
So, as you might deduce it was no accident that my nephew was here. He drove from Savannah and is meeting his wife and son to drive up with them to see Judy.
I didn't realize his new job was in Savannah (as his wife is still in Orlando).
Tomorrow is his birthday and we both agreed that would be very poor form for his mom to die on his birthday so we don't think she will.
(Also she's not that close, but has started to sleep more, so it's coming.)
It's weird to have just left this space with my own family and now I have to deal with my nephew and niece's grief and process.
sj - Sep 07, 2023 9:16:56 pm PDT #25183 of 30000
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
David, it’s too much and unfair that you have to be dealing with this so soon.
aurelia - Sep 07, 2023 10:15:35 pm PDT #25184 of 30000
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
David, I hope you and your sister are able to have some good moments together.
aurelia - Sep 07, 2023 10:17:53 pm PDT #25185 of 30000
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
Yeah, my boss just has her jargon wrong.
Why is there jargon for this? Just say who you want in a meeting.
erin_obscure - Sep 07, 2023 10:59:51 pm PDT #25186 of 30000
Occasionally I’m callous and strange
Ugh, David, that’s so profoundly unfair that you are still in first-circle grief and now having to navigate second-circle loss at the same time. You should really get at least a decade in between catastrophes. As usual, fuck cancer.
Typing on my phone which just auto corrected “fuck” to “Rico” which just….makes no sense. Also tried to make “grief” into “Greif” which is insane troll logic as I haven’t worked with that troll in decades. Also I might have legit typo-d. Thumbs and all that.
erin_obscure - Sep 07, 2023 11:03:16 pm PDT #25187 of 30000
Occasionally I’m callous and strange
Separate post about the convent praying for Tim because my initial reaction was “oh, that’s obviously why he accidentally od’d on painkillers” and cackled maniacally at the obvious (in head) joke, but now I can’t explain that thought process.