I'll be in my bunk.

Jayne ,'War Stories'


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.


Jessica - Jul 10, 2025 1:37:17 pm PDT #8233 of 8258
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

askye, I hope you are able to find a balance between food that is emotionally satisfying and doesn't cause physical distress - that all sounds very restrictive!


erikaj - Jul 10, 2025 2:44:34 pm PDT #8234 of 8258
Always Anti-fascist!

totally. I mean, at least you know,but hopefully, it's not always that hard.


Jesse - Jul 10, 2025 4:10:19 pm PDT #8235 of 8258
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Restrictive eating is a huge pain in the ass, but in my limited experience, once you figure it out, it gets easier. Maybe you don't have a ton of choices, but you know what they are. Good luck!

I just got a burger craving earlier and since I forgot to prepare to work from home tomorrow, I know what I'm getting for lunch at the office!


Calli - Jul 10, 2025 4:43:49 pm PDT #8236 of 8258
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

Conversation~ma, Jen.

Food~ma, askye. I hope the restrictions are helpful.

I moved into higher ed for low paying, but stable work. Oops. But if I’d been able to stay in my USAID-supported NGO I’d be screwed now anyway, so whatever. I’m up to 30 applications out now. It’ll be interesting to see what, if anything, comes through.


askye - Jul 11, 2025 5:35:13 am PDT #8237 of 8258
Thrive to spite them

One thing I'm going to talk to the Dr about is how to tell if I'm having issues with acid reflux since I don't seem to have the traditional symptoms.

From what I've been reading a super strict diet isn't always necessary and people can figure out their triggers and then avoid them.

I'm just being extra cautious right now and seeing how that helps. Last night was salad for dinner. Although I had it mostly dry. I did dip my fork in salad dressing a few times and then stab some salad on the fork but that felt really sad so then I just ate it plain.

M ran out to the comic book store and came home with an angel food cake which is an approved dessert.


lisah - Jul 11, 2025 6:14:14 am PDT #8238 of 8258
Punishingly Intricate

I hope you only have to have the excessive food restrictions for a short time, askye! If you tolerated the rotisserie chicken ok and you can eat cabbage (drinking cabbage juice is … not right) maybe try roasting a chicken on cabbage? It is shockingly delicious and super easy. Deb Perelman uses butter in her recipe but, if you can’t handle butter at the moment, you can use olive oil.

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lisah - Jul 11, 2025 6:16:21 am PDT #8239 of 8258
Punishingly Intricate

Roasting bone-in chicken thighs on whatever veggies you can eat (carrots?) also would be very tasty. I do that basically once a week in cooler months. You can add dried herbs for more flavor if that would work for you.


-t - Jul 11, 2025 10:13:33 am PDT #8240 of 8258
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

I might steal some of those suggestions for myself...

Today's Strands taught me that Ukiah (a town in N Calif) is haiku backwards. I wonder if that has any historical significance


-t - Jul 11, 2025 10:17:02 am PDT #8241 of 8258
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

A favorite meal when I was growing up was pork chops cooked with cabbage and potatoes and sometimes apples. I think you can get lean pork chops, I might try substituting turnips or parsnips or yucca or something for the potatoes, see how that comes out...IIRC it was basically browning the pork chops a bit, nestling the potatoes or whatever in amongst them so they could brown up nicely in the rendered fat and quarters or eighths of cabbage on top of everything to steam and cook down


JenP - Jul 11, 2025 10:29:54 am PDT #8242 of 8258

Ooh, I might try both of those cabbagey, roasty things.

Chat with recruiter went well, and she's forwarding me as a candidate. We'll see. No matter what, though, it was something in a big ol' sea of nothing much, so that's pleasant, anyway.