Matilda, my standardized testing twin from another generation!
I'm rethinking my rethought Thanksgiving plan (having dinner outside with my folks in DE). Maybe I can bring them food but w don't eat together? Sigh
Wash: Mal, your dead army buddy's on the bridge! Zoe: He ain't dead. Wash: Oh.
'The Message'
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 - Nov 20, 2020 12:05:14 pm PST #50 of 30000
Punishingly Intricate
sj - Nov 20, 2020 1:02:03 pm PST #51 of 30000
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Yay, Matilda. I was always very good at standardized tests and not very good at anything that required studying.
Anne W. - Nov 20, 2020 1:06:56 pm PST #52 of 30000
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
Fortunately, we were planning on doing a very small (3 person) Thanksgiving anyway. Things are getting a bit scary here in MO, with many counties still refusing to issue mask mandates.
Yay Matilda on the reading scores!
meara - Nov 20, 2020 1:16:14 pm PST #53 of 30000
I’m super pissed and bummed at my utterly solo thanksgiving but more so annoyed at people in general. And hoping I don’t get sick a few months from now when there aren’t any doctors or nurses! And definitely hope they’re including hospital staff like housekeeping on those first responders vaccine lists. Because those folks are more likely to be older and minorities and poor and vulnerable and maybe have other family members in low paid “essential” jobs...etc...and someone has to collect and wash the scrubs and sheets and empty trash and so on!
meara - Nov 20, 2020 1:18:22 pm PST #54 of 30000
Also rolling my eyes at a friend who has been very strong on her insta in calling people out for unnecessary risks (she works in a hospital and is tested for covid every 2 weeks). She decided to fly to Utah to see her family. And is mad people are calling her out on it. Rolling my eyes so hard. Yes, you could have legit reasons but....you don’t. And your giant Mormon family is v likely to have it/spread it/possibly give it to you and your patients even if you don’t give it to them!
amyparker - Nov 20, 2020 1:35:21 pm PST #55 of 30000
You've got friends to have good times with. When you need to share the trauma of a badly-written book with someone, that's when you go to family.
She decided to fly to Utah to see her family.
fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck
I'll just be over here screaming, don't mind me.
Sheryl - Nov 20, 2020 2:35:25 pm PST #56 of 30000
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"
Timelies all!
Hey, new thread!
Yay for Matilda's reading score!
Volans - Nov 20, 2020 2:56:00 pm PST #57 of 30000
move out and draw fire
Even if we had family or friends pressuring us (we don't), we have enough threat surface already; I have to go into an office, and we've chosen to keep patronizing two local restaurants (family-owned, they are desperately trying to make it work, we go at odd times when no one is there etc). I feel like that's enough exposure that I don't want to risk us transmitting it by more, closer, interaction.
Also we've done lots of holidays alone overseas, it's fine.
WindSparrow - Nov 20, 2020 3:12:53 pm PST #58 of 30000
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.
That does sound like math hell. Poor Matilda.
One of the people I support got tested yesterday as a precaution. I told her doctor that in an ordinary year, this level of "just not quite herself" I would happily wait and watch until it either just faded away and she was better developed something more serious. Doc agreed, now is not the time to fool around. And now I am waiting for results.
Calli - Nov 20, 2020 3:16:17 pm PST #59 of 30000
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
It’s not the specific holiday I’m going to miss if (when) my Christmas plans get cancelled. It’s the family that I haven’t seen for a year. And I am so pissed off at people politicizing pandemic response in such a stupid, pointless way. A virus doesn’t care who you voted for or your opinion on government overreach. Stay home when you can and wear a mask when you can’t. Isolation’s a legit problem, but death is worse. And I’m typing at the choir, but if I go to Mebane, NC, and stand on corners screaming at people I’ll get arrested.