SO U MOVING TO HSTNGS! PACK A AMPULE OF ANTIVENOM AND A FACK FULL OF EMINEM

i'd think feeling like the wreck i do i'd be thinking 'the last thing i wanna do is sit and learn about chisels and boards' but turns out that is the first thing i want to do

Sick? What's wrong?! Hope you are getting better...

ty! it's just a nose/throat/achy thing. (+headaches.) but i'm a really finicky sleeper so the laying awake and not breathing all night is really giving the fatigue bit of my symptoms some added weight. as well as exacerbating the rest of them i'm sure. blah blah blah i'm a stupid weak baby

No, that totally sucks, and yes, if you can't get any rest, that does make it worse. :(

Advil PM a possibility? It might help...

deX, you just MADE A's night by inviting him to Spotify. THANK YOU <3 <3 <3

Hooray! That will make up for the 60 other ppl who now hate me

What did you do to SIXTY people?!

And why didn't you ask me to help? ;)

I invited them to Spotify!

When I logged in, it asked me to spam my contact list with invites, so I did.

Funny. A. was really excited!

Yes, I am posting at 5:34 am before leaving for work. Gah, morning. Not a fan.

yeah srsly, i just got up and whew, mornings huh?

oh by the way sara i think theres something wrong with your timestamp because according to that you got up 4.5 hours earlier than me, which would be ridiculous

i mean im barely holding it together getting up just before 10 am, i cant imagine

okay you

btw gonna see a concert version of Porgy and Bess out at Tanglewood tomorrow with nice wine and a picnic dinner prepared by a friend who happens to be a professional chef

just nice wine?

disappointing.

well we have to drive

also I think it might be a no hard liquor zone, I certainly have never seen anyone with anything other than beer or wine, and mostly wine because lol classical music ppl

would be pretty dope to slam back martinis to "My Man's Gone Now" tho (which btw is EASILY the best soprano aria from the opera, "Summertime" is mad overrated)

i was thinking that you should be having more of a jet-setting fine wine experience, not this adequate wine nonsense

ah see, if we get nice wine we can get like 6 bottles

if we get jet-setting fine wine, we can get 1 bottle

surely you can see where this is going

(btw is a bottle per person overdoing it if two of them have to drive)

only if you are one of the two

if you are not then you can hope cooler heads prevail in which case u get 1.5 bottles of wine

here's my current logic:

I have no idea what food is being prepared so I need to get a mix of reds and whites

there are 4 guaranteed ppl, plus 1 floater and 2 potentials (a friend is going with a couple who is planning their own picnic; friend will definitely join us and couple might)

so I am planning on 3 reds, 3 whites with the expectation that 2 will be unopened

also thinking pinot noir, cab sauv and shiraz vs sauv blanc, viognier, gewuertztraminer

cant help you too much because i have traded in my potential wine skills to hone my fancy beer skills long ago

I think that sounds fine, except that usually gewuertztraminer (or however the hell you spell it) is almost always so sweet that it makes me want to hurl. So pick something else.

John, I know you were making fun of my getting up so freaking early, and if I wasn't so freaking exhausted, I would come over there and kill you. As it is, it's just going to have to wait.

maybe you wouldnt be so tired if you slept in a little more

You know, the worst part is that I woke up at 3:30 and couldn't get back to sleep! UGH

No time for an Advil PM by then, you're just screwed.

hey i was up at 3:30 too! but i did it the right way by staying up until then having loads of fun

John... man, this sucks, I'm too tired to even put up a modicum of a fight with John.

Now THAT is a poor sign.

I really really wish ppl would stop using me as a barometer of Acceptable Sexism on this board

but you are the barometer of Acceptable Sexism on this board; it's intuitively obvious to the most casual observer

Also I have no idea what you're referring to bc I'm too tired to even try to look, so I'm just going to slot you into my Barometer of Acceptable Sexism slot and leave you there.

omg I'm super tired, I hope that didn't sound as bad as I think it might have

saucy

lollll

Porgy and Bess was amazing btw

Yay!

In sad news, my cat Mizu is dying, I think. Well, I know she is. Just... waiting. Fun for a Saturday night at home. :(

:(

been worried a little about my cat, too. her eating habits have been pretty up and down and she's been sleeping more, but i think maybe she's still figuring out the new environment, and i'm over-thinking stuff as usual. anyway, sorry bout your cat. it's so easy sometimes to be callous or brusk, "it's just the damn cat, she'll be fine" or etc, but as soon as somethings wrong, they've run away, you realize just how much you care about the little weirdos.

anyway, my first week of school was really fun and i'm not sick anymore, so wahoo!

haha already kinda regretting the deep thoughts about pet ownership portion of that post but anyway

tbh even if my wife wasn't allergic to everything with fur I wouldn't own a pet because of how terrible it is when they die

but the "better to have loved and lost" cliche is true though. pets are a joy about 95% of the time

RIP Mizu :(

Thanks for your thoughts, guys. She was a good cat and we will miss her. The kids said good-bye to her last night, thankfully.

:-( aw, my condolences

losing a pet is always tough

(somehow I feel like that would have come across as a more sincere statement if I had a different display name)

heart goes out to you sara

yeah, my condolences

I've been a little extra-nicer to our dog and cats the last few days, what with ilxor pets passing.

Thanks you guys. <3 <3 <3

btw I had to call an ambulance for someone yesterday

that was fun, and by "fun" I mean "terrifying, then confusing and slightly boring"

WELCOME TO THE MEDICAL WORLD, DAN!