Buffy? I like that. That girl's so hot, she's buffy.

Forrest ,'Conversations with Dead People'


Natter 52: Playing with a full deck?  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


Connie Neil - Jul 05, 2007 2:17:39 pm PDT #6536 of 10001
brillig

I think I need to have a nervous breakdown

You need to have someone handy who can take care of everything, though, while you go through a graceful, poetic decline. It's the biggest downside to being a competent, independent adult, there's no one handy to pick up the slack when you decide to have a good long-term swoon.


§ ita § - Jul 05, 2007 2:19:37 pm PDT #6537 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

It's the biggest downside to being a competent, independent adult, there's no one handy to pick up the slack when you decide to have a good long-term swoon.

Those are very true words.

Dammit. Nervous breakdown TBD.


Topic!Cindy - Jul 05, 2007 2:33:31 pm PDT #6538 of 10001
What is even happening?

I have nothing to add to the wank discussion except to say that I'm making a muffuletta for dinner. For reals.

First you make a baby, now this. Is there nothing you won't try?

I think I need to have a nervous breakdown. I'm just wondering how I get over that initial hump of crazy. Are there forms you need to submit, or anything?

You might be having one, right now. I think I had one this winter, or at least was on the brink, but I never realized it until I was better, and neither did anyone else (at least not anyone who thought I ought to be hospitalized or anything).

You need to have someone handy who can take care of everything, though, while you go through a graceful, poetic decline.
If it's graceful and poetic, it's probably not a nervous breakdown.

I don't even think they give a 'nervous breakdown' diagnosis any more, which is a total rip-off.


amych - Jul 05, 2007 2:44:04 pm PDT #6539 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

total rip-off

I know? Women on the Verge of a Hairy-assed Huge Anxiety Attack just doesn't have the same ring to it.


Connie Neil - Jul 05, 2007 2:44:27 pm PDT #6540 of 10001
brillig

If it's graceful and poetic, it's probably not a nervous breakdown

I may be confusing it with those old-fashioned standards "a decline" or "the vapors" (which I think is just gas).


Jesse - Jul 05, 2007 2:46:04 pm PDT #6541 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

If it's graceful and poetic, it's probably not a nervous breakdown.

True fact.


Connie Neil - Jul 05, 2007 2:46:19 pm PDT #6542 of 10001
brillig

cereal:

There's a line I like in a book, when a grown-up daughter is complimenting her mother on having been so tough during the hard times Mom has lived through and how Daughter doesn't think she could cope: "Rubbish, you'd be fine. The streets aren't full of weeping women sitting on curbs."


§ ita § - Jul 05, 2007 3:01:31 pm PDT #6543 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

You might be having one, right now.

That might start explaining some stuff.


sarameg - Jul 05, 2007 3:06:28 pm PDT #6544 of 10001

Come undone. Of all the phrases out there, that one I prefer (strange thing to prefer.) Growing up it was come unglued, but undone doesn't make me think of all the action figues we repaired with epoxy.

That said...I'm sorry, ita.


Kat - Jul 05, 2007 3:19:28 pm PDT #6545 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

I think of undone as very victorian. I'm about to become unglued.