Early: You folks are all insane. Simon: Well, my sister's a ship. We had a complicated childhood.

'Objects In Space'


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.


DavidS - Oct 22, 2024 11:40:06 am PDT #3050 of 4159
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

EM came over this morning and we actually plowed through a bunch of stuff that had been hanging.

Set up Autopay for quarterly water payments. (Was doing guest pay.)

Initiated transfer of billing from JZ's name to mine for AT&T. (Was doing guest pay.)

Initiated transfer of control on one beneficiary account over to my name.

Did initial steps for exemption of my units to SF Rent Board for new vacancy tax.

Paid Matilda's healthcare bill.

And finally got Oregon Vital Records to release my birth certificate so I can get my passport ordered.

So that feels....functional. And less thwarted.

Talking to her about my first therapist appointment, I said my concern was that she didn't have enough Weird Barbie energy to engage me on some of my issues.

I think y'all know what I mean.


Laura - Oct 22, 2024 11:41:50 am PDT #3051 of 4159
Our wings are not tired.

I think y'all know what I mean.

We do. Well done with the impressive list of accomplishments.


sj - Oct 22, 2024 12:10:59 pm PDT #3052 of 4159
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."

Go, Hec! That’s a lot to get done. Sometimes just having another person in the room helps to get so much more done.


erikaj - Oct 22, 2024 12:51:59 pm PDT #3053 of 4159
Always Anti-fascist!

It took me a couple tries(and I don't mean porn.) Like, maybe there's more than you think(possible, and you don't exactly have that whole Marginalized Human thing, like I do) but, you know. If she's not it, don't be afraid to keep looking When I was in high school, I thought I would be a therapist. But I think I just terminated too fast with my disabled therapist and then kind of had the most fucked-up #SeeHerBeHer ever. Or maybe it took getting into college for me to realize how hard grad school would be(Or the occasional feeling that I'd be tempted to scribble about the deep, dark secrets that might've come my way. 'Because it's wrong" Kind of hating my Not a Job today, as it happens, and sort of wishing I'd let the guy who got bent about my Linked-in dozens joke take it off my hands last year.(I swear, I thought we were play-fighting, but he really got upset.)


erikaj - Oct 22, 2024 1:12:16 pm PDT #3054 of 4159
Always Anti-fascist!

But, really, dude, I'm a stranger, on twitter, who just wrote that maybe your mother should amend her profile to address her skills with small equipment. We've known each other ten minutes. If that brings up feelings enough that you want to get me fired, maybe you should talk to *mom*, not me.(My stepmother hammered my "Your mom's a skank" button so much when I was young, even if those jokes weren't funny to me, it wouldn't be fighting words now. And not only because if my mother was a skank, Stepmonster would have gotten her butt kicked on our front lawn because girls where my mom grew up? Don't settle for blouse disarranging and mild hair-pulling.) But, lucky me, that would never happen because a. I cover for all the married, family-having folks on the holidays And 2. Technically speaking, "having my job" would have saved me money because I'm a volunteer anyway.


sj - Oct 23, 2024 11:09:00 am PDT #3055 of 4159
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."

I'm really missing JZ today and her unique brand of kind wisdom.


erikaj - Oct 23, 2024 2:54:06 pm PDT #3056 of 4159
Always Anti-fascist!

Sometimes I'm surprised at what makes me think of her. Sometimes I expect it, like "Gum would be perfection."


-t - Oct 24, 2024 8:44:31 am PDT #3057 of 4159
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Y'all! I am wearing one red shoe and one black shoe (both flats, and similarish styles) and I had NO IDEA until a coworker mentioned it in the kitchen and I looked down at my feet. I'm not sure if this is a new low or an achievement unlocked sort of situation, but it's something.


dcp - Oct 24, 2024 9:00:28 am PDT #3058 of 4159
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.

Nah, worse would be if you got the chirality wrong.


-t - Oct 24, 2024 9:18:47 am PDT #3059 of 4159
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

I probably would have noticed that before getting very far. Probably.