Inara: Mal, this isn't the ancient sea. You don't have to go down with your ship. Mal: She ain't going down. She ain't going anywhere.

'Out Of Gas'


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.


askye - Mar 11, 2025 12:22:39 pm PDT #6052 of 6065
Thrive to spite them

Well. In the past 5 weeks. M, I and now his mom have all had EMS called for us. His mom is the only one bad enough to go to the ER. But M has my car and in the confusion of trying to contact him and having the emergency people there and a drivier being angry because they pulled over and got blocked in... I' didn't ask which hospital. It could be the ER here, the big hospital or the Catholic hospital. But she isn't admitted yet so I can't find out until she is.

I feel like a terrible person. She was having breathing issues and was panting for breath. So

I hate this year


Laura - Mar 11, 2025 12:54:43 pm PDT #6053 of 6065
Our wings are not tired.

I'm sorry, askye. What a mess. Usually it would be the closest ER.


JenP - Mar 11, 2025 1:09:47 pm PDT #6054 of 6065

Oh, geez, askye. Good vibes to all there.


askye - Mar 11, 2025 1:28:00 pm PDT #6055 of 6065
Thrive to spite them

She's at the little ER here. M wanted to wait until they knew more about what was going on before he went there.

M has pleurisy. I have an ultrasound appointment for Monday.


-t - Mar 11, 2025 2:04:18 pm PDT #6056 of 6065
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Oh, man, askye. Health~ma for all your household


askye - Mar 11, 2025 3:49:32 pm PDT #6057 of 6065
Thrive to spite them

M's mom is going to be admitted to a hospital. What we have in town isn't a hospital but an ER and like outpatient imaging and stuff. She is going to one in a nearby town (they are all owned by the same corporation). Whatever tests they did came back clear so they aren't sure what is going on but she isn't improving.


brenda m - Mar 11, 2025 4:25:29 pm PDT #6058 of 6065
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there

Oh man askye. That’s a lot.

The dog just went and barged in on the third-floor neighbor and came back down with a whole carrot.

Dog is the new Bob I guess. (And he does like them, for the record.)


-t - Mar 11, 2025 4:44:02 pm PDT #6059 of 6065
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

"Dog is the new Bob" is making me happy


Hil R. - Mar 11, 2025 5:20:36 pm PDT #6060 of 6065
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

So, Trump is now threatening to cut funding from my university because of antisemitism. (I have not experienced any more antisemitism here than I have anywhere else in my everyday life. A few low-level incidents, one slightly bigger thing that I considered reporting but decided it wasn't worth it. No worse than any other place I've been, and definitely better than when I was in Pennsylvania. The university settled a lawsuit last year about a few incidents that they probably should have dealt with better, but those seem to have been isolated incidents. There is definitely not any kind of "rampant environment of antisemitism" or whatever here. There also aren't any big anti-Israel protests, which is the excuse they're using at other universities -- we've really had nothing more than a couple of kids wearing keffiyahs collecting signatures. But, somehow, we're in danger of losing funding unless we "solve" our "antisemitism problem.")


Jesse - Mar 11, 2025 5:21:45 pm PDT #6061 of 6065
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Oh man, askye, that's a lot for your household!

Unfortunately, I don't think blasting "you must chill" at brain weasels is very effective, but we can always try

I just don't see what that doesn't work.