We're taking a moment ... and we're done.

Oz ,'Chosen'


Natter 74: Ready or Not  

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.


Lee - Mar 05, 2016 12:47:01 pm PST #16833 of 30003
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.

I fell asleep for almost two hours, which is bad given how much I need to do this weekend, but otherwise good and needed


Burrell - Mar 05, 2016 12:49:04 pm PST #16834 of 30003
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!

Ack! I am turning into the person who exercises for 2 1/2 hours on the weekend. That is so not me. I feel like I'm channeling Kat and Kristin minus the running, but they are two of my exercise heroes. See also: sarameg.

As a side note: exercise is WAY better at stimulating my brain's reward center than grading


Gudanov - Mar 05, 2016 1:01:24 pm PST #16835 of 30003
Coding and Sleeping

I've done laundry, washed dishes, done a little work work, done some work on the software for my wife's study which needs to be done soon, cleaned some carpet, and am working on cleaning the garage.


Connie Neil - Mar 05, 2016 1:08:18 pm PST #16836 of 30003
brillig

I filled the gas tank, checked the oil, bought oil, picked up prescriptions, dropped off old laptop batteries at Best Buy, dropped off the latest collection at the thrift store, and picked up my comics hold. Now to take a shower.


Tom Scola - Mar 05, 2016 1:12:25 pm PST #16837 of 30003
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

I shot photographs and day drank. Which is about as pathetic as it sounds.


Matt the Bruins fan - Mar 05, 2016 1:20:58 pm PST #16838 of 30003
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand

Neither sounds pathetic to me on a Saturday.

I did some laundry, went out to lunch, bought some household necessities, and just scrubbed my sink after waking from a nap. My apartment is basically in the least embarrassing shape it's been in in the past several years, but weirdly the one thing I can't seem to muster motivation for is watching the Hugh Dancy movie I need to return to the library this weekend. WTF, brain?


Steph L. - Mar 05, 2016 1:40:25 pm PST #16839 of 30003
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

We went to the memorial service for the daughter of Tim's ex, where I got to witness humanity being truly, truly shitty.

Tim's ex (R.) is obviously no longer with her daughter's father. Apparently the daughter's father told R. how many people she was "allowed" to "invite" to the memorial (SPOILER: 15). The front 6 pews all had signs taped on the ends of the pews that read "Reserved for [Daughter's Father's Name]'s Family." A member of that family got up and read the obituary, which was printed in the program, and listed the surviving family members by name; she made a very obvious pause as she got to the name of R.'s other son (which was printed in the obituary), DIDN'T SAY HIS NAME, and then read the rest of the names. The service was supposed to start at 2:00; at 2:20, all of Daughter's Father's family (30-40 people), came walking up the aisle of the church together. (What was THAT about? Not only were they forcing R. and the handful of people she was "allowed" to invite to wait, they were forcing their own friends to wait. It was really awkward.) And the father got up and delivered a eulogy of sorts that ended by emotionally urging "the nonbelievers here today to start a relationship with Jesus Christ."**

For understandable backstory, I should note that Daughter's Father literally kidnapped her and forcibly moved her from Ohio to live with him in Texas when she was a minor.

In conclusion, he and his family may be grieving, and some part of me respects that, but the larger part still wants them to burn in hell for how they treated R. and her son. Fuck them.

We did not, perhaps unsurprisingly, join them for the meal in the undercroft after the service. Because fuck them. We all went to Perkin's.

**(Every Christian but non-Catholic funeral/memorial I've been to in the past 5 years or so has included what basically amounts to an altar call. What is WITH that???)


amych - Mar 05, 2016 1:45:28 pm PST #16840 of 30003
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

Holy fucking shit "humans", Tep.


Steph L. - Mar 05, 2016 1:52:10 pm PST #16841 of 30003
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

Holy fucking shit "humans", Tep.

It was mind-blowing how shitty they were. All dressed in nice suits and well-coiffed, and every single one of them except a grandmother ignored R. and her son. (The grandmother came over and hugged R. and cried with her and squeezed the son's hand.) Fuck them all so much.


Dana - Mar 05, 2016 1:52:21 pm PST #16842 of 30003
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

A funeral is totally the best time to be petty.