What made me unhappy today ?

[CatrionaGrace]

Who would wanna read about colonial land grants, grabs, and... and... math!?'

Um, me. I'm ready to ready to read the book right now, and math is not my thing. Tell the critic in your brain to fuck off- oh, excuse me, I mean cease and desist- and go back to writing what sounds like a fascinating story.

Wtf did these kids give me!?

Poor JT. That sounds perfectly awful.

 

[DLC]

Summer has begun and it's colder than ever.

 

[CatrionaGrace]

Sounds like Wyoming in season.

 

[Dogberry's Watch]

Whatever illness I caught is in my sinuses and my chest. I can feel my pulse in my teeth, and my face hurts like hell. I think I have a fever, too. A small one, but it's wiped me out entirely.

Yay, winter sickness.

 

[CatrionaGrace]

FYI:

The following is in reference to the Google/AI posts back the middle of November. Snopes isn't infallible, of course, but they generally do a pretty decent investigations. Snopes report on Google AI access

 

[edamame]

My teammate at work got moved. I miss her as we used to balance each others' strengths and weaknesses without much talking and I've been struggling with the change. She didn't want to get moved either but she seems to be taking well to the change, so I guess it's also a blow to my own self-esteem.

 

[Iain Aschendale]

Why do they call it an appointment at the doctor's office when you show up fifteen minutes early and are still waiting an hour and a half after your time?

It's a good thing I don't have anywhere to be until tomorrow morning.

The essay marking, on the other hand, is something I guess I'll be up all night doing.

 

[Rath Darkblade]

Why do they call it an appointment at the doctor's office when you show up fifteen minutes early and are still waiting an hour and a half after your time?

Because calling it a dis-appointment would mean they'd have no patients.

(As it is, some of the patients have no patience).

The essay marking, on the other hand, is something I guess I'll be up all night doing.

Could you take some of the essays with you to the waiting room and mark them there? Or is that something the school expects you to do anyway?

 

[Homer Potvin]

Why do they call it an appointment at the doctor's office when you show up fifteen minutes early and are still waiting an hour and a half after your time?

It's a good thing I don't have anywhere to be until tomorrow morning.

The essay marking, on the other hand, is something I guess I'll be up all night doing.

Typical?

Side note, one of my owners just spent two weeks in Japan. Said it was the first trip he ever took that he didn't want to come from at the end.

 

[Tallyfire]

Side note, one of my owners just spent two weeks in Japan. Said it was the first trip he ever took that he didn't want to come from at the end.

Yep. Japan is the one place I always want to return to.

 

[CatrionaGrace]

Japan is on my grandson's wish list. My daughter says if his dad will chip in for airfare, she'll take him after he graduates from high school. My dad was stationed in Nagasaki starting December of 1945, then transferred to Kokura, which was the original bomb target. He eventually died of non-Hodgkins lymphoma which got a lot of people exposed to radiation.

 

[edamame]

Voted in the November short story contest here out of good intentions. I don't know if I'll vote again because of interactions with one writer. Or at least, I won't tell anyone I did anymore. Most of you are lovely though.

 

[Homer Potvin]

Voted in the November short story contest here out of good intentions. I don't know if I'll vote again because of interactions with one writer. Or at least, I won't tell anyone I did anymore. Most of you are lovely though.

This is being dealt with. No reason for it to carry over into another thread or for it to affect your participation in the future.

 

[GrahamLewis]

This is being dealt with. No reason for it to carry over into another thread or for it to affect your participation in the future.

Sounds like Homer has a contract out.

 

[CatrionaGrace]

Just for the record, I hate pigs and have not a single qualm about having them turned into bacon. Well, okay.Mabe a little qualm, but I was ready to do it myself yesterday. Went out to my son's place to feed animals, and one of the porkers pushed through the gate when I went to fill their self-feeder. Of course, when we attempted to put him back in the stall, the other two pushed through. Eventually we got them back in, but... I hate those things. They're bigger, stronger, and smarter than I am, and I'm always afraid they'll eat me before I can eat them.

 

[Homer Potvin]

Just for the record, I hate pigs and have not a single qualm about having them turned into bacon. Well, okay.Mabe a little qualm, but I was ready to do it myself yesterday. Went out to my son's place to feed animals, and one of the porkers pushed through the gate when I went to fill their self-feeder. Of course, when we attempted to put him back in the stall, the other two pushed through. Eventually we got them back in, but... I hate those things. They're bigger, stronger, and smarter than I am, and I'm always afraid they'll eat me before I can eat them.

 

[CatrionaGrace]

Yesterday I gave an hour and a half program at the college that I've given many other times. It was an unutterably frustrating experience for me though my audience seemed to be engaged, always laughing and wincing in all the right places. The problem: I'd been fighting a migraine for a couple of days and migraines screw with my ability to talk. Even though the meds take care of the pain, they don't help with the other aspects of migraine. It took twice the effort it usually does to get through the program. At times, I stammered like a typewriter stuck on a single letter, something that doesn't happen too often anymore. Other times, the words I wanted to say simply would not come out in the right order. Lest anyone think I'd arrived drunk, I finally mentioned the migraine. It was a nice group of people, most of whom have heard me speak before, so I hope they understood I'm not generally incompetent. Apparently the program didn't come across as awful as it felt to me, but I'd as soon not repeat the experience of performing while in the grips of a migraine.

 

[Louanne Learning]

Apparently the program didn't come across as awful as it felt to me

it's true, things often appear to us worse than they really are. I bet you did great.

 

[CatrionaGrace]

Thanks. I got through it, and several people asked if the shady lady third program has openings next week, so I suppose it wasn;t too awful.

 

[GrahamLewis]

Yesterday I gave an hour and a half program at the college that I've given many other times. It was an unutterably frustrating experience for me though my audience seemed to be engaged, always laughing and wincing in all the right places. The problem: I'd been fighting a migraine for a couple of days and migraines screw with my ability to talk. Even though the meds take care of the pain, they don't help with the other aspects of migraine. It took twice the effort it usually does to get through the program. At times, I stammered like a typewriter stuck on a single letter, something that doesn't happen too often anymore. Other times, the words I wanted to say simply would not come out in the right order. Lest anyone think I'd arrived drunk, I finally mentioned the migraine. It was a nice group of people, most of whom have heard me speak before, so I hope they understood I'm not generally incompetent. Apparently the program didn't come across as awful as it felt to me, but I'd as soon not repeat the experience of performing while in the grips of a migraine.

I'm not a doctor and I rarely play one, but if I were you I'd discuss this with a medical professional. Just to be on the safe side.