Played with Kaylee. Sun came out, and I walked on my feet and heard with my ears. I ate the bits, the bits stayed down, and I work. I function like I'm a girl. I hate it because I know it'll go away. The sun goes dark and chaos has come again. Bits. Fluids. What am I?!

River ,'War Stories'


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.


Steph L. - Jul 23, 2025 7:50:34 am PDT #8379 of 8397
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

Okay, we made it home by 10:40, so I missed my goal of asleep by 10 a.m. And now I'm not quite sleepy enough to try to nap. I suspect I'll be ready for a nap after lunch, though.


JenP - Jul 23, 2025 8:17:46 am PDT #8380 of 8397

Sounds close enough to something sexual to have me making giggle.

Ha, ha, ha! I see what you mean.

I decided breakfast out would be fun, though it's actually more like brunch, I guess. Even eating outside because it's pleasant, breezy and not very humid.


JenP - Jul 23, 2025 8:18:28 am PDT #8381 of 8397

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Jessica - Jul 23, 2025 8:29:29 am PDT #8382 of 8397
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

Ooof, we have to be at the hospital at 6 am tomorrow.

I hope getting there early means as little waiting around as possible and that everything comes back very boring and benign!


JenP - Jul 23, 2025 8:40:28 am PDT #8383 of 8397

It's such a racket, Dana. Effing effers.


DavidS - Jul 23, 2025 9:25:55 am PDT #8384 of 8397
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

The surgeon said it was actually 2 distinct lumps instead of 1, but said their appearance was more on the benign side, but obviously they won’t know for sure until the lumps are biopsied.

I hope you get to call him Lumpy Space Princess for a while.

I desperately need to vacuum and it's not even a task I especially dislike. And yet, the housework inertia has me in its grip.


-t - Jul 23, 2025 9:51:22 am PDT #8385 of 8397
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

I have misplaced my car keys (they are obviously somewhere in my house because I drove home yesterday but not in any of the usual places I have tried to train myself to leave them) so I took the bus to work today, and the bus I was on they couldn't close the luggage compartment at the stop before my stop so there was going to be an indeterminate delay so I just walked, so I really feel like getting here at all should count as my full work day. And yet, emails keep coming in with stuff I don't entirely know how to do (my boss had trigger finger surgery yesterday and will be out for at least a week, someone from another department is supposed to be covering the stuff that is above my paygrade but that is not, I think, all of it?). There is not enough coffee in the world.

Nap~ma and benign~ma (benignness? Benignity? Nothing looks like a word) for the Stately Beckmeyer Mansion


Calli - Jul 23, 2025 10:22:24 am PDT #8386 of 8397
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

I hope the biopsy is clear, Steph.

Hec, I get that whole vacuuming thing. It’s satisfying to have done, but getting started can be a pain.

I am loving summer in MI so far. I haven’t spent enough time by Lake Huron yet, though. After I become an unemployed bum toward the end of next week I’m hoping to head up to the thumb for day trips and the like.


JenP - Jul 23, 2025 10:30:33 am PDT #8387 of 8397

Dudes! My EF was in the NORMAL RANGE for the first time in eight years! Everything read as normal, in fact. Normal, normal, normal. What a happy word.

Oof, I hope you find your keys after work -- that is such an annoyance.

I should do some things now. I think I'll start with laundry -- I think I just have one load.


Dana - Jul 23, 2025 10:39:59 am PDT #8388 of 8397
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

Heck yeah, normal vibes for everyone.