I always tell people - and remind myself - that the first time you do anything is the hardest.
...burning baby fish swimming all round your head.
Drusilla ,'Conversations with Dead People'
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.
Toddson - Apr 20, 2021 11:33:53 am PDT #5733 of 30000
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Laura - Apr 20, 2021 11:57:08 am PDT #5734 of 30000
Our wings are not tired.
So happy for Matilda and parents! Phew!
I just watched the drone on Mars and I'm just...that's Mars and I'm looking at it just as if it was somebody's camera on their porch showing me a raccoon. Mars!
I know! It is like the coolest RC vehicle ever. The response time in getting video back is just mind blowing.
DavidS - Apr 20, 2021 11:59:56 am PDT #5735 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I was thinking more general than that, along the lines of "showing up is half the battle."
I think the bigger issue for her is that she was just resigned to being rejected again. None of her other friends even got to the interview round.
She had given up on hoping for things for herself.
DavidS - Apr 20, 2021 12:01:59 pm PDT #5736 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I always tell people - and remind myself - that the first time you do anything is the hardest.
I am cognizant that I didn't have anything like a Zoom job interview when I was 14. Or really any kind of real job interview until I was between HS and college.
Also, her SotA application process was as involved and stressful as a college application. Which I was a barely able to do at 18, much less 13 when she did hers.
Susan W. - Apr 20, 2021 12:03:35 pm PDT #5737 of 30000
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
So happy for Matilda!
Jessica - Apr 20, 2021 12:10:15 pm PDT #5738 of 30000
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
Congrats to Matilda on getting the job, and to the Zmayhem household for surviving the process!
A co-worker shared this article today, and it really resonated with me. Languishing is *exactly* how I feel lately.
-t - Apr 20, 2021 12:16:55 pm PDT #5739 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Oh, wow, that's a term I need to know
Steph L. - Apr 20, 2021 12:34:36 pm PDT #5740 of 30000
the hardest to learn / was the least complicated
A co-worker shared this article today, and it really resonated with me. Languishing is *exactly* how I feel lately.
That feels pretty accurate, yeah.
shrift - Apr 20, 2021 12:39:32 pm PDT #5741 of 30000
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
Woo, a good thing for Matilda!
I get my second jab tomorrow, so I'll probably spend the next couple of weeks scheduling all of the in-person appointments for when I'm at full immunity. I'll have to see if my stylist is still working at the salon, because something needs to be done with this mop of hair on my head.
I also finally got notice from the IRS that I do not, in fact, owe them like $50K and the inquiry is closed. Zero regrets about paying an accountant to handle that for me.
Steph L. - Apr 20, 2021 12:41:16 pm PDT #5742 of 30000
the hardest to learn / was the least complicated
I get my second jab tomorrow, so I'll probably spend the next couple of weeks scheduling all of the in-person appointments for when I'm at full immunity.
I have the worst goddamn FOMO watching everyone get vaccinated. (I can get vaccinated the first week of May, so not much longer. But still, the wait is making me so impatient!)