You're good people, David. No wonder an amazing gal like Jacqueline was so fond of you.
Hope that your local services will come up with something for those girls and their g'ma very soon.
Now I did a job. I got nothing but trouble since I did it, not to mention more than a few unkind words as regard to my character so let me make this abundantly clear. I do the job. And then I get paid.
Mal ,'Serenity'
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.
EpicTangent - Oct 03, 2023 10:43:11 pm PDT #25855 of 30000
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty
EpicTangent - Oct 03, 2023 10:45:32 pm PDT #25856 of 30000
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty
It always strikes me as weird when there are obstacles to paying your bill. You would think that would be the one thing that would be made so easy you could almost do it accidentally.
Some comedian had a bit about this, "if someone else wants to pay my bill, LET THEM!"
Cass - Oct 04, 2023 12:08:08 am PDT #25857 of 30000
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
Maybe 52 is just the age for bad teeth to completely collapse.
Sounds right to me. Dang teeth.I have a root canal tooth that has been hurting since it was done two years ago. Which implies it wasn't done correctly and my dentist gives zero bothers. I hate my current dentist. I just love my hygienist.
Toddson - Oct 04, 2023 6:17:29 am PDT #25858 of 30000
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
In lighter news (which would be anything after a conversation about root canals and tooth extractions), Mattel is going to release a Stevie Nicks Barbie.
DavidS - Oct 04, 2023 7:59:50 am PDT #25859 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
So the two teenage sisters (Malia and Nickie, a junior and soph respectively) were very nice and a bit shell shocked.
I made them BEC sandwiches for breakfast, and sandwiches for lunch and sent them off to school. They'll be back here tonight and we'll see what shakes out. Hopefully their situation gets resolved. But I can roll with them for a few days.
JenP - Oct 04, 2023 8:11:39 am PDT #25860 of 30000
Very kind and caring of both you and Matilda, Hec. Completely unsurprisingly.
DavidS - Oct 04, 2023 8:26:49 am PDT #25861 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I was pretty hesitant to take on an extra responsibility right now but they're low maintenance and very nice.
They're not even friends of Matilda. She just saw one of them crying in the class where she's a TA.
Toddson - Oct 04, 2023 8:56:26 am PDT #25862 of 30000
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Amid all the news about bad things happening and nasty people, it's good to know that good people still exist and are doing good things. Yay David.
DavidS - Oct 04, 2023 9:20:59 am PDT #25863 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
it's good to know that good people still exist and are doing good things.
As unfair as it is that Jacqueline doesn't get to see the second season of Our Flag Means Death, it's almost more unfair that she's not here for this.
Because she'd been itching to rescue teenagers ever since Ricky got kicked out of his house in My So Called Life. The gay teachers who take Ricky in were definitely one of her life goals.
The way some kids daydream about hitting a grand slam in the World Series? That's how JZ dreamed about saving teenagers.
When we were struggling with her diagnosis early on, we both acknowledged that we always assumed I'd die first. (Not just because I'm older but because she was always very healthy and never had any life-harming habits.)
I asked her what she had planned for the 20 years of her life after I was gone.
She said, "I'd probably get lots of cats and some dogs, and write a lot of fic, and I'd convert the attic into a dorm space for trans teens who had been kicked out of their homes."
erikaj - Oct 04, 2023 10:47:46 am PDT #25864 of 30000
Always Anti-fascist!
I am, fully, not that nice. I try to help, which people are mainly blown away by, in my estimation, not because I make some enormous sacrifice, but because I strike people as a congenital help-ee, not a helper. But if I had been a young person having that thought, it might have been "Once my book becomes a movie," or some overblown shit like that, then I would. And I apologize for ever thinking that Matilda needed to toughen up--although I still think, if she doesn't manage to, it will be a tough road.(Maybe it always is anyway...don't know) But I am blown away by such a young person's inability to ignore the pain of somebody she knows so distantly...not sure even in my most delicate days if I quite pulled that off, and I really could not, to this day, share that thought with my father."I wanted to help," is not something he understands. ETA: Hec, when I thought that, it wasn't a critique of you as a parent...I don't know much about that side of life...a little from watching. I guess I'm not so sure that being very sensitive set me up well for anything. But it let M. be there for kids she doesn't know very well.