Everything looks good from here... Yes. Yes, this is a fertile land, and we will thrive. We will rule over all this land, and we will call it... 'This Land.' I think we should call it 'your grave!' Ah, curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal! Ha ha HA! Mine is an evil laugh! Now die! Oh, no, God! Oh, dear God in heaven!

Wash ,'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.


lisah - Aug 25, 2021 1:53:43 pm PDT #8742 of 30000
Punishingly Intricate

This isn't that big to me considering how I feel about that measure, but my doctor will be super pleased.

Your doctor should listen to the Maintenance Phase podcast! (As should everyone interested in the weight loss industry.)

Looks like my Dad will be getting discharged from the hospital tomorrow and will be moving into inpatient rehab. I'm worried about how anxious he'll be but glad my Mom will get a break from physically taking care of him full time.


Laura - Aug 25, 2021 2:16:18 pm PDT #8743 of 30000
Our wings are not tired.

I hope your dad benefits from the rehab, and of course that your mom can get some rest.


Sheryl - Aug 25, 2021 3:57:39 pm PDT #8744 of 30000
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"

Timelies all!

Yay for normal bones!

The coworker with car trouble was back at work at his usual time. Good thing, because it was super busy today.(In other words, a typical Wednesday)


Beverly - Aug 25, 2021 5:02:07 pm PDT #8745 of 30000
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.

Fragment of an Electric Company song: "Happy Birthday, Miss Jones, you sure got nice...bones..." Apropos for good bone density scans, methinks.


Sophia Brooks - Aug 25, 2021 5:57:21 pm PDT #8746 of 30000
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

I am reading everything and really want to wish Lisah dad~ma, Teppy post dad ~ma that he was reachable with the guns, best wishes to sumi on treatment and general all around ma.

I think work/Covid-19. has broken me. I have spent the past three weeks trying to explain to several different university offices that the students I work with literally cannot upload their vaccination cards to a system that needs your university email account when they do not have university email accounts, while being held accountable for these students being non-compliant even though they were accepted after the Covid-19 vaccine status deadline. So I was between students who got terrifying emails and people who would not supply instructions as to how they could become compliant. With our Dean wanting 100% compliance. The last communication I have from the compliance office is that my students were considered visitors, and I needed to collect the compliance myself, which I did. Then no communication until my folks all got emails that they were being deregistered, even though I had all of their vaccine info and they could not upload it to the central system. Also they were being chastised for not being complaint by August 1st, which was AFTER they were accepted to the program. The mess ended up including the University Provost. I had tried to be proactive and figure out what to tell the students and was told to handle it myself, and then reprimanded for handling it myself.


Dana - Aug 25, 2021 6:02:52 pm PDT #8747 of 30000
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."

Jesus, Sophia, how infuriating.


-t - Aug 25, 2021 6:23:22 pm PDT #8748 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Wow, Sophia, that is terrible


JZ - Aug 25, 2021 6:27:31 pm PDT #8749 of 30000
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.

Enraging! I'd been wondering how you and your students were doing, and hoping you hadn't posted an update because it had all worked itself out. I am so sorry it's the complete opposite.


sj - Aug 25, 2021 6:35:01 pm PDT #8750 of 30000
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."

Ugh, Sophia. That is horrible.


askye - Aug 25, 2021 6:49:38 pm PDT #8751 of 30000
Thrive to spite them

That is seriously screwed up Sophia. They are sending you in a loop of hell. A Hell loop of Bureaucracy.

Work was slow and I had to be at the online pick up counter area because we didn't have anyone scheduled. We had a bunch of college students working part time and now they are all back at college and don't work here anymore. We also don't have a lot of people who are trained. I basically have volunteered to work there when needed.

And now one of my lower molars is kind of hurting- not the one I had to have the temp crown on. But it's right in the area where they were working so I don't know if it's just my jaw hurting or something.