Today was a shit day. Not impressed, Monday.
Two steaming cups of chocolate goodness. Courtesy of whomever I swiped it from out of the cupboard.
Ben ,'The Killer In Me'
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.
Dana - Jan 19, 2026 4:46:20 pm PST #11160 of 11619
I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."
Cass - Jan 19, 2026 5:57:48 pm PST #11161 of 11619
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
Quake!
4.6 and just south of me. That felt somehow substantial because the shaking kept going.
-t - Jan 19, 2026 7:50:52 pm PST #11162 of 11619
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I do not have my mental reaction to earthquake magnitudes properly calibrated, but 4.6 sounds big-ish if close by. The ones that keep going for a while are unsettling, I know that. Hope it was not too unsettling in a literal sense!
Cass - Jan 19, 2026 8:30:06 pm PST #11163 of 11619
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
It was unsettling. I grew up in this area (just to the north of where the San Andreas originates) but it was continuous in a creepy amount of time. Long quakes are scarier than short quakes.
-t - Jan 20, 2026 8:21:39 am PST #11164 of 11619
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Definitely
Matt the Bruins fan - Jan 20, 2026 8:42:49 am PST #11165 of 11619
Oh honey, the mentally unwell people have been in the fanbase since Game Changers was Stucky fanfiction on the internet. The calls have been coming from inside the house the whole time!
If I'm going to be unsettled I prefer it to be in a less literal way.
meara - Jan 20, 2026 8:47:06 am PST #11166 of 11619
lol I was just watching an interview with Hudson Williams and the interviewer (Evan Ross Katz) was like “I loved the red leather trench coat you wore outside Jimmy Fallon…it reminded me of Spike from Buffy the Vampire Slayer” and I was like oh shit, the 2000s are def back!!
erikaj - Jan 20, 2026 9:40:24 am PST #11167 of 11619
"already on the kiss-cam with Karl Marx"-
Tonight I start my writing workshop I bought for Christmas. Hope it's good.
Laura - Jan 20, 2026 10:37:26 am PST #11168 of 11619
Our wings are not tired.
I've yet to experience an earthquake. I imagine it is unsettling.
Enjoy the workshop, erikaj.
erikaj - Jan 20, 2026 11:25:04 am PST #11169 of 11619
"already on the kiss-cam with Karl Marx"-
Earthquakes: My parents have a few stories about being in Cali as newly-married desert dwellers and facing that. weirdly, those are the more normal Riverside stories, though--I don't have a Giles to check on it, but I suspect the area was part of some kind of convergence in the early seventies. So they came back here...devil you know, much? Workshop: I hope I get some good feedback or meet somebody cool. Even if it's not all that, it should be great compared to the game I've played all month: "What Did I Do With My Christmas Money?" as I pondered everything else that a (comparatively) big chunk of cash could do for me and wonder if my decision was a poor one. Which I know sounds like it's on the border between humblebragging and insanity, but I used to do it every time I pre-ordered *anything*, so I am actually coming along a bit. I think the combination of growing up a kid that couldn't do chores for money and then landing on "benefits recipient" has left me insecure about my decision-making, just because there hasn't been that much of it. And there are two things that are real that are feeding this time more than others, right-- the Medicaid cuts thing--like, what if we need the money next year, and all I got was some stupid feedback, or, say, the virtual equivalent of camp friends, where you write back twice. And, like, everyone has bought something kind of expensive(at least at the time) that sucked. I need this not to be one of those. But I also need to get over it.