You got all kinds of learnin' and you made me look the fool without tryin', and yet here I am with a gun to your head. That's 'cause I got people with me. People who trust each other, who do for each other, and ain't always lookin' for the advantage.

Mal ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'


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.


Calli - Mar 17, 2021 5:06:51 pm PDT #4606 of 30000
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

Health~ma to your father, -t.


Jesse - Mar 17, 2021 5:22:19 pm PDT #4607 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Good thoughts to your dad, -t.


Susan W. - Mar 17, 2021 5:35:35 pm PDT #4608 of 30000
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights

So, as soon as I'm done with work, I head over to the QFC pharmacy, the same place that sent me a text telling me to stop by for the next vaccine dose when I'm in the store and feeling well, only to learn that the only day I can get a shingles shot is Saturday, because the rest of the time they're doing appointment-only covid shots.

I managed not to melt down in front of the pharmacist who informed me of this. She mentioned that they're advising people in my situation to get the covid vaccine first, so I'm going to go back to that route.

It's funny. I was in near meltdown mode a little over a year ago when it was clear things were going to get bad and most of the big local tech companies had gone 100% WFH yet but UW hadn't yet made the switch. But for most of the past year I've been downright stoic about the whole thing. Until now, when the end is maybe-sorta-kinda in sight but there's lots of uncertainty and moving parts, and I'm suddenly sitting in the parking lot of a grocery store trying not to cry because their pharmacy sent an ill-advised auto-text they weren't in a position to follow through on.


sj - Mar 17, 2021 5:36:20 pm PDT #4609 of 30000
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."

-t, tons of ~ma for your dad.


-t - Mar 17, 2021 6:26:37 pm PDT #4610 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

((Susan)) Sometimes crying in the car over something that seems like it should not be that big a deal is the best thing you can do.

Thanks, everyone.


meara - Mar 17, 2021 6:30:04 pm PDT #4611 of 30000

Jesse Washington is way behind--I only got mine because of volunteering, not because I'm otherwise eligible!


Jesse - Mar 17, 2021 6:39:11 pm PDT #4612 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Booo. I guess we've caught up here, after the total shitshow at first.


Volans - Mar 17, 2021 6:53:26 pm PDT #4613 of 30000
move out and draw fire

I will be voting to remove every single asshole on the school board. Looks like elementary will reopen in April.

This is the school board that was on mic saying that it's loser parents who want to send their kids to school so they can get baked, right?

FCPS is mandating in-person for everyone in the fall. I'm mostly okay with this, but I wish there were a way to offer a range of solutions. I suspect that one of the main drivers for the decision is the way VA handles No Child Left Behind - schools get funding based on their test scores (the SOLs, amusingly), and most SOLs are being cancelled this year because porting classroom teaching directly online didn't work. The students demonstrably learned almost nothing, so they'd fail the SOLs, so the school funding would be cut.


juliana - Mar 17, 2021 6:57:45 pm PDT #4614 of 30000
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…

This is the school board that was on mic saying that it's loser parents who want to send their kids to school so they can get baked, right?

That was Oakley, which is Bay Area, but not SF. Still not cool.

Timelies, all.


-t - Mar 17, 2021 7:11:29 pm PDT #4615 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

They all resigned.