Man, just ascend already.

Willow ,'Chosen'


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.


Atropa - May 06, 2024 11:33:29 am PDT #155 of 3597
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.

Oof, hard same. And I've somehow reached the age/seniority in my role that people ask me for career advice and like...my career goals are to work just hard enough that I'll eventually be able to stop. I have no ambitions beyond "get paid, don't burn out."

Same. Big mood. Also, when people ask me for career advice, my responses tend to be things like "Be prepared to be frustrated. Train your PMs early, but remember that threatening them with violence is a career-limiting move."

New dog! Yay!


JenP - May 06, 2024 12:27:28 pm PDT #156 of 3597

I think working from home makes me feel like I want to keep working, because commuting and other people live, in person, all day are what I find most exhausting about work, historically. That is, as I think Steph said above, the structure is helpful. We/I really need to make this the year of getting my/our shit together WRT what we're doing going forward to prep for retirement, though. It needs to be aggressive.

I'm still on vacation, but I did a bunch of stuff to prep the non-profit I work super part time for for an upcoming, online giving event, so I feel mighty productive! Emails drafted and scheduled, social media posts drafted scheduled, instructions for what to share on her personal page given. I guess it's good I'm done bingeing House?

So fun hanging out with your Shir! Safe flight to Seattle, and a continued good time to you!


Tom Scola - May 06, 2024 12:38:50 pm PDT #157 of 3597
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500

The colonoscopy was performed without difficulty. The patient tolerated the procedure well. The quality of the bowel preparation was evaluated using the BBPS (Boston Bowel Preparation Scale) with scores of: Right Colon = 3, Transverse Colon = 3 and Left Colon = 3 (entire mucosa seen well with no residual staining, small fragments of stool or opaque liquid). The total BBPS score equals 9.

A 5 mm polyp was found in the transverse colon. The polyp was sessile. The polyp was removed with a cold snare.

Repeat colonoscopy in 7–10 years for surveillance based on pathology results.


dcp - May 06, 2024 12:47:09 pm PDT #158 of 3597
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.

Good result, Tom.


Laura - May 06, 2024 12:47:12 pm PDT #159 of 3597
Our wings are not tired.

Bunches of adulting points to Tom!


Steph L. - May 06, 2024 12:49:44 pm PDT #160 of 3597
the hardest to learn / was the least complicated

The polyp was removed with a cold snare.

It's nice how they just yank the polyp for you right then and there.

Gold star for gastrointestinal health!


-t - May 06, 2024 12:51:09 pm PDT #161 of 3597
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

my career goals are to work just hard enough that I'll eventually be able to stop.

OMG hard same. Our People department (or someone, they are who it comes from but I don't know that it originates with them) has made it a goal that we have concrete discussions about career paths in our more formal 1:1s and I hate it so much. It's a little lucky that I am officially in a new role as of last year so my "path" just being "learn how to do/get better at my job" makes sense for a while more. I think I might be old enough that if we have a round of layoffs (which I hope we do not, we are hiring at the moment but that is no guarantee) I might get offered an early retirement package but I'm not sure when that kicks in. I have been here long enough that I should get a decent severance package (knowing what they have offered in the past) if it comes up, which is a comfort.

{{{lisah}}}

{{Gud}} I wish the breakdown didn't make you feel ashamed and embarrassed. I wish you didn't have it at all because I know they are no fun but I also know that they don't mean you are worth any less or doing anything wrong. And I am amazed at how much you get done.

Yay new dog!

Happy birthday Karl!


P.M. Marc - May 06, 2024 12:51:32 pm PDT #162 of 3597
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear

Oh, crud! I failed to actually schedule anything with Shir when she's in Seattle!


Karl - May 06, 2024 12:54:28 pm PDT #163 of 3597
I adore all you motherfuckers so much -- PMM.

Thanks, folks. Next birthday is going to be the weird one (I lost my maternal grandfather when he was 58 and I was 3, and that event had ripples throughout the family.)

I am trying to just be calm and enjoy the day today, but I'll admit it's difficult. So much accumulated grief and fear for the future, and I feel like I've been in crisis mode since well before Lisa's mum passed.

I love you all, and I am so thankful for your steady, gentle presence in my life. Having one online friendship survive for twenty-plus years feels like a gift; having all of you is genuinely an embarrassment of riches.

You are My People, and I am blessed beyond possible words.


erikaj - May 06, 2024 1:07:07 pm PDT #164 of 3597
Always Anti-fascist!

Any blessing we give you, you've given back a bunch of times. Which is true, even as it's making Inner Chandler Bing super-uncomfortable to have written it out. "Jeez, can I *be* more sentimental?" Scola, I'm no expert, but that seems as good as it gets.