I'm glad that probably I'll feel better for it...for the past few months, being full felt pretty bad. I like my class, but sometimes I come out feeling fairly...yokel-adjacent, or at least conscious of the places I haven't been and things like that(and only partially because I used special-treat money to get homework--how STUPID is that?!) But maybe that's what learning is, sometimes. If there weren't gaps, what would we fill? But my former apple-polisher is kind of embarrassed. being the star at school loomed kind of large in her legend, even if she could have gotten it by talking just like people.
Joyce: You don't think it's too obvious? I think I look like I have a cat on my head. Buffy: But a very well groomed cat. Joyce: Well that's a comfort.
'Bring On The Night'
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.
erikaj - Nov 08, 2026 2:22:32 pm PST #14794 of 14807
"Somewhere in this building is our talent." Toby Ziegler, my spirit animal
erikaj - Nov 08, 2026 2:25:15 pm PST #14795 of 14807
"Somewhere in this building is our talent." Toby Ziegler, my spirit animal
I also wish I hadn't spent about half my education, between journalistic ethics and benefits limits, learning not to have people buy me things.
msbelle - Nov 08, 2026 6:04:20 pm PST #14796 of 14807
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
almost closed out the day with zero done, but then I rallied.
showered, grocery run, clean fridge.
I might get the trash out since it is getting stinky.
-t - Nov 09, 2026 10:46:29 am PST #14797 of 14807
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
It is amusing me way too much that we have 1337 units of a particular saute pan in stock right now. I don't think anyone I work with would see the humor.
-t - Nov 09, 2026 11:12:08 am PST #14798 of 14807
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Work today looks like (a) an hour long meeting in which I swap between thinking "what are they talking about?" to "oh, no, that's no good" that ends with the organizer declaring it a good meeting, (b) now, in which I am trying to get some thing done but not putting a whole lot of effort into it because there's (c) another meeting that I don't really need to be in but feel obligated to attend coming up soon after which it will be time for (d) lunch and I can already tell asking me to do actual work after lunch will feel like an affront and an imposition.
Jessica - Nov 09, 2026 11:54:03 am PST #14799 of 14807
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
1337 units
I would be laughing with you!
-t - Nov 09, 2026 12:04:19 pm PST #14800 of 14807
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Oh thank you
Steph L. - Nov 09, 2026 3:06:14 pm PST #14801 of 14807
It's actually been a really hard year, when you stop and do the math. Eliot would cry, too, if it didn't take him seventy minutes of therapy, two cocktails, and a Sondheim medley before he can experience a human emotion through the haze of his PTSD.
The beach in November is a DELIGHT. I didn't go on the family excursion this afternoon (because my hip didn't get the message that this is a vacation, and it is working overtime to be a painful jerk), but soon they will return bearing much crab for me.
Cass - Nov 09, 2026 3:14:48 pm PST #14802 of 14807
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
1337 unitsHeh.
Why is every reaction my body comes up with goo?
-t - Nov 09, 2026 3:18:13 pm PST #14803 of 14807
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Maybe you are secretly made of nanomachines?
Relax and enjoy the vacation, Hip of Teppy! Yay crabs