An abundance of virtual hugs sent your way, Nilly. Thanks for checking in.
Anya, the Shopkeepers of America called. They wanted me to tell you that 'please go' just got replaced with 'have a nice day.'
Xander ,'Selfless'
Natter 78: I might need to watch some Buffy for inspiration
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.
Laura - Mar 18, 2026 9:42:24 am PDT #12010 of 12319
Our wings are not tired.
lisah - Mar 18, 2026 10:15:02 am PDT #12011 of 12319
Punishingly Intricate
Sending so much love, Nilly
meara - Mar 18, 2026 10:57:48 am PDT #12012 of 12319
Hi Nilly—so much love and luck being pushed your way!!! It sounds awful.
Matt the Bruins fan - Mar 18, 2026 11:08:10 am PDT #12013 of 12319
You have to remember that being a 5-time Olympic medalist means Hilary Knight has been playing hockey at an elite level at least 16 years. It's impossible for her to be a teenage girl less than 16 years old, thus the President's complete lack of interest.
Hugs to you and yours, Nilly!
Susan W. - Mar 18, 2026 5:26:28 pm PDT #12014 of 12319
The wide universe is the ocean I travel, and the earth is my blue boat home
Nilly! So good to see your pixels.
-t - Mar 18, 2026 8:32:18 pm PDT #12015 of 12319
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Huh. My JazzFest tickets/wristband is in transit with USPS so I checked the tracking and so far it has gone from NOLA to St Rose to Denver to Houston and back to Denver. Says it’s supposed to get to me on Friday, no idea why it is taking that route. Plenty early, though, which was my only real concern when the website said it would be mailed in early April
Calli - Mar 19, 2026 4:06:57 am PDT #12016 of 12319
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Susan, I definitely empathize with Dylan, as my application count reached 207 this week. I have a phone interview today, though, which is nice.
I have no memory of Coda existing, so I’m not surprised that it was from 2021.
It was good to see Shir and Nilly’s pixels.
meara - Mar 19, 2026 6:59:40 am PDT #12017 of 12319
Coda is the one about the girl who wants to do music and her parents are deaf, yeah? I think I watched it on streaming.
JenP - Mar 19, 2026 10:15:48 am PDT #12018 of 12319
Oh! Ha. I didn't even recognize the name. We watched it streaming, too. I mean, I enjoyed it well enough, but best picture? I dunno. Not that I remember what other contenders were from 2021.
erikaj - Mar 19, 2026 10:41:53 am PDT #12019 of 12319
"already on the kiss-cam with Karl Marx"-
The last few years have been busy for you, Hec, not surprising that, even if you have kept up, things slip through. I'm always a little behind. Nilly!(kind of imagining that as a collective "GILES!" moment. Sometimes Best Picture suffers from trying too hard to, you know, Capture A Moment(TM) which can feel odd enough years later if they capture it, but sometimes they bomb and you get, like, Crash. That and how much movie people like to watch movies about them, which is how you get "La La Land" which I wanted to love but just hated *so much*