Does anybody mind if I pass out?

Willow ,'Beneath You'


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.


-t - Jun 20, 2025 11:27:50 am PDT #7845 of 7857
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Forward movement on both children at the same time!

Yes! Awesome!

If I won the lottery I’d go back to school and take all sorts of random courses.

Me too, wouldn't that be great? I have been toying with the idea of going back to school once I retire but I suspect tuition might be too expensive for that to be practical. The possibility is a ways off, still, so who really knows. Maybe one course a term or something, just whatever takes my fancy


Shir - Jun 20, 2025 12:27:35 pm PDT #7846 of 7857
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".

Just to say hi, and that I'm still alive (now with hosting house #2 to give the family I was staying with a break), and that I still hate this shit. I wrote here a long paragraph on how much I hate this shit, but I apparently hate it so much that I lost all coherence mid writing and it became a long incoherent rant. So that's how things are.

Also, happy birthdays, and good news~ma all around. Love you all.


dcp - Jun 20, 2025 12:31:44 pm PDT #7847 of 7857
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.

it became a long incoherent rant

I hope venting a long rant helped, regardless of its level of coherency.


bennett - Jun 20, 2025 12:32:45 pm PDT #7848 of 7857

I wouldn't mind going to lectures and learning new stuff, but I'm never writing papers or taking tests again. I still have nightmares about papers being overdue or failing to complete incompletes.


Shir - Jun 20, 2025 1:12:32 pm PDT #7849 of 7857
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".

I hope venting a long rant helped, regardless of its level of coherency.

Actions, my friend. Actions are the only thing that truly helps, so checking in here helps.


Laura - Jun 20, 2025 1:20:04 pm PDT #7850 of 7857
Our wings are not tired.

Always helps on this side to see you checking in, Shir.

An arrangement has been made for my brother's granddaughter to move in with her paternal grandparents. That has to be a better situation than living in an adult community bored out of her mind. Of course, she moved in with her maternal grandparents because living with her parents was impossible; now she is moving again because the grandparents are proving to be just as difficult. I feel bad for my brother because he will be heartbroken. I don't know what or how much they have told him. I'll be over there to visit him in the hospital tomorrow.


erikaj - Jun 20, 2025 3:05:03 pm PDT #7851 of 7857
Always Anti-fascist!

Shir, my rants get better. Not sure that really helps, though. If I could just study without worrying about it, I'd find out if an MFA would really make me a better writer or not.(But if it's not, special to do that, would people still make the connections that are the point to those things?)


DavidS - Jun 20, 2025 3:56:48 pm PDT #7852 of 7857
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Glad for your check-in, Shir. Hard to believe it was just a year ago and change that I was showing you around San Francisco.


-t - Jun 20, 2025 4:16:54 pm PDT #7853 of 7857
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Always good to see your pixels, Shir

Y'all. I get promotional emails from some of our brands, and the one I just got for our highest end way-too-expensive-for-me cookware features an influencer using a skillet to cook on a grill. I can't tell exactly what they are cooking - maybe really big scallops, or some sort of patty? But instead of putting them directly on the grill above the nice bed of coals they have going, they have them in a skillet, and the skillet on the grill. WHY?!?! This is a $300 dollar skillet, being used for something that requires no skillet at all.

I am appalled. This is way worse than using a hammock frame.


Karl - Jun 20, 2025 5:35:51 pm PDT #7854 of 7857
I adore all you motherfuckers so much -- PMM.

Love you too, Shir. Remembering that hug last year always makes me smile. Thank you.