We're not gonna die. We can't die, Bendis. You know why? Because we are so very pretty. We are just too pretty for God to let us die.

Mal ,'Serenity'


Natter 67: Overriding Vetoes  

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


Strix - Mar 15, 2011 2:37:15 pm PDT #28499 of 30001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger

But if I had the means? And she were younger and X meant saving her life?

See, I get this. But a 16 y.o. cat with pancreatic cancer and you are getting the electricity shut off but paying $1200 vet bills three and four times and year? Nope.

I paid for Solomon's insulin and needles, and paid $150 vets bills quite a few times and ate mac and cheese. But when he was 15ish (never certain of his age), losing teeth, pissing all over and clearly not loving life, I cried and put him to sleep. Took me a couple of weeks of wrestling with the decision, and he was very much a roommate cat.

I adore my present kitties, and would definitely spend for vet bills, but I simply would not take extraordinary measures. They are adored and loved, definitely, but faced with a $3000 bill, I would be VERY hesitant, unless it was a sure fix and they would have years more of a good life.


Jesse - Mar 15, 2011 2:41:11 pm PDT #28500 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I adore my present kitties, and would definitely spend for vet bills, but I simply would not take extraordinary measures. They are adored and loved, definitely, but faced with a $3000 bill, I would be VERY hesitant, unless it was a sure fix and they would have years more of a good life.

Me too.


JZ - Mar 15, 2011 2:45:23 pm PDT #28501 of 30001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.

Holy crap. Rescue workers just found a 4-month-old baby, alive and unharmed, buried in the rubble. Swept out of her parents' arms. They survived too, but they thought she was gone forever. I can't even imagine what it would be like, three days of that grief and then improbably -- impossibly -- getting your baby back, whole and perfect, in the midst of all that destruction.


le nubian - Mar 15, 2011 2:51:44 pm PDT #28502 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

OMG, JZ. Wow.


hippocampus - Mar 15, 2011 2:54:56 pm PDT #28503 of 30001
not your mom's socks.

if that's not on goodstuff yet, it darn well should be.


Jesse - Mar 15, 2011 2:59:28 pm PDT #28504 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Yeah, OK.


Consuela - Mar 15, 2011 3:03:11 pm PDT #28505 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

Oh, that's fantastic.


msbelle - Mar 15, 2011 3:03:44 pm PDT #28506 of 30001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

crying now. that is amazing.


Kat - Mar 15, 2011 3:09:31 pm PDT #28507 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

That's entirely amazing!

We're in our nicest room (at this hospital) yet. It has a pull out bed AND a couch. My issue is the TV (nicer than the one at home) but I can never find the kid station. So she's watching the equivalent of baby einstein.

I had an interview on campus today. I went with blood on my shirt. Thank god I've known both of these women for 10 years otherwise I'd be a little mortified.


msbelle - Mar 15, 2011 3:24:28 pm PDT #28508 of 30001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

I've sent off resume and cover letter #2 and am now at the point where I am doubting that I really want these jobs, that they will want too much from me, that I will be too overwhelmed too fast, that that that....