You got all kinds of learnin' and you made me look the fool without tryin', and yet here I am with a gun to your head. That's 'cause I got people with me. People who trust each other, who do for each other, and ain't always lookin' for the advantage.

Mal ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'


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.

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JenP - Jul 08, 2025 11:08:36 am PDT #8190 of 8195

I am so familiar with that type of productivity.


Steph L. - Jul 08, 2025 11:09:31 am PDT #8191 of 8195
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

And now I am going to finish editing this article, BUT FIRST I am going to take a nap before I fall asleep at the keyboard. (Seriously, my eyelids are drooping and my head is starting to nod. This is one of those days I'm glad I WFH.)


dcp - Jul 08, 2025 11:34:45 am PDT #8192 of 8195
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.

Tim calls this the "but-firsts"

Yeah. I am having more and more trouble with this habit. To the point where I take a few steps towards the "but first" task, get distracted, and forget both tasks.


megan walker - Jul 08, 2025 12:10:46 pm PDT #8193 of 8195
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist

Most lemonade is too sweet for me.

This is why if I want something in a restaurant that isn't water or wine, and the place has unsweetened tea, I order a half & half. (Sorry, but in New England this has always been called thus and I refuse to call it an Arnold Palmer.) The blend results in the perfect sweetness level.

I avoid all artificial and "natural" sweeteners like stevia and monk fruit because products with them always taste sickly sweet to me. I hate that it is almost impossible to get protein powder without them. Like, if I'm putting protein powder in a smoothie or oatmeal or something, I can easily put other sweet things in there if I want to. I don't need the powder itself to be sweet.

ETA: I always forget the asterisk turns into a bullet.


erikaj - Jul 08, 2025 12:52:18 pm PDT #8194 of 8195
Always Anti-fascist!

Last night, I was on a CodePink webinar with a Jacqueline from San Francisco, and for a moment, it was very hard not to run over and start...Idk, start spouting fannish nonsense at her. Even though there might be hundreds of Jacquelines in the region, and we only back-channelled and stuff--say, quarterly and we usually approached lefty things from different angles--and I don't mean porn-- but it wasn't completely wrong to think that was a thing she might have come to...still glad I didn't really do that. It might have been a lot to explain.


-t - Jul 08, 2025 2:42:25 pm PDT #8195 of 8195
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Seltzer on tap is amazing! Spindrift in general is quite good, I'm not sure if I've had lemon. When we were going on family vacation/roadtrips when I was a kid we were in the habit of filling a large thermos with a tap sort of thing (not as big as a football game gatorade container but kinda along those lines) with lemonade and then refilling with water as it got depleted so we had sort of lemony water to drink. From that, I ended up really liking water with a hint of flavor and my sister ended up hating it.

I think I like tea in all its forms. Hot, cold, sweet, unsweet, fruit flavored, herbal, black, green, etc. Knowing that, you'd think I'd drink it more often.

Same on all counts, JenP! I have a box of assorted teabags on my desk at work and do I ever make tea to drink while I work? Hardly ever.

To the point where I take a few steps towards the "but first" task, get distracted, and forget both tasks.

::waves:: Yes, that is very familiar

Aw, I can imagine that that would be a bit unsettling, erika. I work with a Ginger and seeing her name on email still gives me a little jolt sometimes, depending on the subject


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