Where'd they get CAT scan from?... I mean, did they test it on cats? Or does the machine sort of look like a cat?

Dawn ,'Sleeper'


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.


askye - Sep 11, 2023 3:37:55 pm PDT #25276 of 30000
Thrive to spite them

Much love and healing to you Hil

And Also a lot of love to you David

I have been skimming.

I started my new job. I keep forgetting that I have to go to work tomorrow (I was like this yesterday) and it was a lot of information but it's not at a super omigod stressed out pace. And I was reminded to take my 15 min break in the morning and the afternoon. So that is different.


Calli - Sep 11, 2023 4:09:17 pm PDT #25277 of 30000
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

I hope they’ll be able to treat your uncle effectively, smonster.

It’s slowly becoming livable (in my wimpy definition) here in NC, so I’m starting to voluntarily poke my head outside again. It’s nice.


sarameg - Sep 11, 2023 6:19:21 pm PDT #25278 of 30000

Hil, how terrifying for you & I hope you continue to improve. I’m so glad you called (my dad is getting…better at this. But still has driven himself too many times. Whole saga there. I’m heading out there in Oct regardless if surgery is scheduled.)


amych - Sep 11, 2023 6:44:15 pm PDT #25279 of 30000
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

Oh no Hil!! So glad you're recovering well!


sj - Sep 12, 2023 5:06:15 am PDT #25280 of 30000
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."

ltc doesn’t have school today because one of the other towns in our district is in a state of emergency after all the rain last night.


Toddson - Sep 12, 2023 5:27:17 am PDT #25281 of 30000
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"

For those of you who remember "it was white and square and looked like a tooth" there's this. heh


Pix - Sep 12, 2023 6:18:26 am PDT #25282 of 30000
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie

Yikes, Hil! I'm so glad you're okay.


smonster - Sep 12, 2023 10:23:30 am PDT #25283 of 30000
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.

How are you feeling, Hil? You’re going back to work tomorrow, right?

I hope they’ll be able to treat your uncle effectively, smonster.

I realized from my surprise at the well wishes that I just assumed this was the beginning of the end for him and he’d be dead in a few months, if not sooner. Speaks to my mindset right now.

Related but brighter, I recognized my mentor’s wife walking her dog on my way to work and pulled over to talk. I got an update and hugs and now we have each other’s number. Glad to have a conduit for info out and support in.

Mercury super needs to stop drinking that Gatorade. Or whatever is going on needs to knock the fuck off.


Hil R. - Sep 12, 2023 10:38:54 am PDT #25284 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

How are you feeling, Hil? You’re going back to work tomorrow, right?

Feeling OK. Not 100%, but well enough to go to work tomorrow -- it's a relatively light day, just teaching two classes. Still covered with all sorts of scary-looking bruises (on my arms from the IVs and cuffs, and on my chest from the CPR) that will show when I'm wearing a short-sleeved shirt, so prepared to get some stares and questions from students and/or colleages.


P.M. Marc - Sep 12, 2023 10:50:38 am PDT #25285 of 30000
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear

Feeling OK. Not 100%, but well enough to go to work tomorrow -- it's a relatively light day, just teaching two classes. Still covered with all sorts of scary-looking bruises (on my arms from the IVs and cuffs, and on my chest from the CPR) that will show when I'm wearing a short-sleeved shirt, so prepared to get some stares and questions from students and/or colleagues.

Jesus, Hil! That's terrifying, and I'm so glad you called 911 when you felt off.