Angel: Connor, this is Spike and Illyria. Guys, this is Connor. Connor: Hi. umm...I like your outfit. Illyria: Your body warms. This one is lusting after me. Connor: Oh...no, I--I--it's just that it's the outfit. I guess I've had a thing for older women. Angel: They were supposed to fix that.

'Origin'


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.

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Calli - Jul 10, 2025 4:43:49 pm PDT #8236 of 8243
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

Conversation~ma, Jen.

Food~ma, askye. I hope the restrictions are helpful.

I moved into higher ed for low paying, but stable work. Oops. But if I’d been able to stay in my USAID-supported NGO I’d be screwed now anyway, so whatever. I’m up to 30 applications out now. It’ll be interesting to see what, if anything, comes through.


askye - Jul 11, 2025 5:35:13 am PDT #8237 of 8243
Thrive to spite them

One thing I'm going to talk to the Dr about is how to tell if I'm having issues with acid reflux since I don't seem to have the traditional symptoms.

From what I've been reading a super strict diet isn't always necessary and people can figure out their triggers and then avoid them.

I'm just being extra cautious right now and seeing how that helps. Last night was salad for dinner. Although I had it mostly dry. I did dip my fork in salad dressing a few times and then stab some salad on the fork but that felt really sad so then I just ate it plain.

M ran out to the comic book store and came home with an angel food cake which is an approved dessert.


lisah - Jul 11, 2025 6:14:14 am PDT #8238 of 8243
Punishingly Intricate

I hope you only have to have the excessive food restrictions for a short time, askye! If you tolerated the rotisserie chicken ok and you can eat cabbage (drinking cabbage juice is … not right) maybe try roasting a chicken on cabbage? It is shockingly delicious and super easy. Deb Perelman uses butter in her recipe but, if you can’t handle butter at the moment, you can use olive oil.

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lisah - Jul 11, 2025 6:16:21 am PDT #8239 of 8243
Punishingly Intricate

Roasting bone-in chicken thighs on whatever veggies you can eat (carrots?) also would be very tasty. I do that basically once a week in cooler months. You can add dried herbs for more flavor if that would work for you.


-t - Jul 11, 2025 10:13:33 am PDT #8240 of 8243
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

I might steal some of those suggestions for myself...

Today's Strands taught me that Ukiah (a town in N Calif) is haiku backwards. I wonder if that has any historical significance


-t - Jul 11, 2025 10:17:02 am PDT #8241 of 8243
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

A favorite meal when I was growing up was pork chops cooked with cabbage and potatoes and sometimes apples. I think you can get lean pork chops, I might try substituting turnips or parsnips or yucca or something for the potatoes, see how that comes out...IIRC it was basically browning the pork chops a bit, nestling the potatoes or whatever in amongst them so they could brown up nicely in the rendered fat and quarters or eighths of cabbage on top of everything to steam and cook down


JenP - Jul 11, 2025 10:29:54 am PDT #8242 of 8243

Ooh, I might try both of those cabbagey, roasty things.

Chat with recruiter went well, and she's forwarding me as a candidate. We'll see. No matter what, though, it was something in a big ol' sea of nothing much, so that's pleasant, anyway.


Steph L. - Jul 11, 2025 10:32:50 am PDT #8243 of 8243
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

I went to throw sheets in the dryer, pressed start, was baffled why it didn't start, then realized the door was still open. I closed the door, pressed start, was baffled why it didn't start, then realized I didn't set the timer. (Wonder of wonders, the dryer started once I both closed the door AND set the timer.) I feel like today should maybe be over, or at least the part of the day where I have to use my brain should be over.


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