This wasn't even email! This was a chat!
Dawn: I feel safe with you. Spike: Take that back!
'First Date'
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 - Jul 30, 2025 10:48:15 am PDT #8532 of 8541
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Atropa - Jul 30, 2025 11:19:51 am PDT #8533 of 8541
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
I just thought when I said "DON'T SEND THIS TO THE CLIENT YET," that my coworkers might read it.
:: laughs bitterly ::
One of the parts of my managerial life is telling people on customer-facing teams that NO, they can't share that information with customers just yet, who said they could, thanks I'll go have a conversation with that sales rep, NO don't share that information yet.
That and meetings. So many meetings.
lisah - Jul 30, 2025 5:37:04 pm PDT #8534 of 8541
Punishingly Intricate
Is anybody else finding the Bee impossible today??
Steph L. - Jul 30, 2025 5:47:07 pm PDT #8535 of 8541
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Is anybody else finding the Bee impossible today??
Oh my god, SO MANY WORDS. Not a fave today.
-t - Jul 30, 2025 7:38:01 pm PDT #8536 of 8541
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I gave up on it pretty quick
Steph L. - Jul 31, 2025 4:15:55 am PDT #8537 of 8541
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Today's Spelling Bee *also* has about a billion words. I need more coffee to tackle it.
This morning (8 am) is Tim's follow-up appointment after getting his neck lump removed last week. Definitely need benign~ma.
Laura - Jul 31, 2025 5:30:06 am PDT #8538 of 8541
Our wings are not tired.
Benign~ma in abundance.
JenP - Jul 31, 2025 5:33:44 am PDT #8539 of 8541
I tanked Wordle today, boo. Haven't been doing Spelling Bee for s while, but maybe I'll start again. Connections was cute today.
I did not get to the next round for the interview from last week, which is a bit of a bummer, but I'm still glad I had the first one. It's been a while!
Farmers Market this morning.
JenP - Jul 31, 2025 5:34:19 am PDT #8540 of 8541
Benign ~ma in abundance.
Steph L. - Jul 31, 2025 6:50:57 am PDT #8541 of 8541
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
So, it was not benign. It was cancerous. The ENT says that the type of cancer it is has a very high cure/survival rate among nonsmokers, like 90%-95%.
Next steps are a PET scan and then more biopsies, because when the ENT looked in Tim's throat with a laryngoscope, there was no obvious location where the cancer started/is localized. And they need to get really specific on the location so they can precisely target the radiation. The type of cancer he has is apparently highly, highly responsive to radiation, so they definitely want to get it right and kill the fucker.
Tim, being Tim, went to work. If it were me, I'd be back in bed under the covers, yelling about the unfairness of the fucking universe.
I absolutely do get that, if it had to be cancer, the prognosis is very good. So optimism is the overall outlook. But I really, really, REALLY expected it to be benign, so now that Tim has left for work I'm officially freaking out.
And I have my own doctor appointment in an hour because my quad injury from May (or April?) has gotten way more painful. So I need to efficiently freak out and then pull myself together so I can go see my own doctor for my own shitty crumbling human shell.