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On Fortuna's wheel, I'm running
As my day centrally involved a very long-awaited referral finally coming through and foundering immediately on the shoals of the American healthcare system, it wasn't a very good one. The CDC called for my opinions on vaccination which it turned out I was not permitted to state for the record without a minor child in the house. Because the call was recorded for quality assurance, I said just in case that I had children in my life if not my legal residence and I supported their vaccination so as to protect them from otherwise life-threatening communicable diseases and did not express my opinion of the incumbent secretary of health and human services and his purity of essence. I got hung up on before I could tell my family stories from before the polio vaccine and the MMR.
Of course the man in the White House used the Boulder attack to justify his latest travel ban. Burned Jews are good for his business. I appreciate this op-ed from Eric K. Ward. I hope it reaches anyone it's meant to. I thought I was jaundiced about people and now I think I'm just in liver failure.
It would never have occurred to me that a video for Talking Heads' "Psycho Killer" (1977) should have anything to do with psychological realism, but Saoirse Ronan seems to have had a great time with it.
Of course the man in the White House used the Boulder attack to justify his latest travel ban. Burned Jews are good for his business. I appreciate this op-ed from Eric K. Ward. I hope it reaches anyone it's meant to. I thought I was jaundiced about people and now I think I'm just in liver failure.
It would never have occurred to me that a video for Talking Heads' "Psycho Killer" (1977) should have anything to do with psychological realism, but Saoirse Ronan seems to have had a great time with it.
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I understood the question! I thought the chances improved!
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Yes, sorry! On the post which you can't see (*apologetic wild gestures*), there was much discussion, most of which was that early hatesex probably wouldn't fix things, but once you get past that stage, there's also genocide and things which sex couldn't fix either, plus people who feel that they probably did have the sex anyway and it didn't fix them. There were some yes votes, though! It would be a better thing if you could see it. Or if I could see which posts you couldn't see!
But also, with apologies, I am much less with it than I thought - I'm at the dangerous point where I feel so much better than the previous couple of days that I think I'm fine and I'm not, it's just comparative. I only realised when I nearly replied to one of your previous comments with "It's like the atheist lesbian doctor and the fearsome Dutch nun" and absolutely believed that was perfectly explicable. (I don't think it's explicable even if you've watched Tenko and know who I mean*, which I'm pretty sure you haven't! And then I was: ahh, yes, I am not ok. XD So I went and had dinner & adjusted expectations accordingly.)
*(They are not anything like G'kar and Londo in measurable ways, but under Ship Type, they are the only pairings I have so far that would sit on the same shelf.)
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Bleh. Sympathies. I am glad you had dinner and hope the next few days continue to improve.
I only realised when I nearly replied to one of your previous comments with "It's like the atheist lesbian doctor and the fearsome Dutch nun" and absolutely believed that was perfectly explicable.
There's nothing wrong with that style of comment in a shared frame of reference! I just have not actually seen Tenko!
(They are not anything like G'kar and Londo in measurable ways, but under Ship Type, they are the only pairings I have so far that would sit on the same shelf.)
Although that is a compelling argument for.
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Thank you! <3 My friend took me into town and all being well, I usually have a 3 day recovery cycle, where I am pretty much back to mostly usual by day 3, but partway through day 2, I am all OH LOOK I AM WELL, IT'S FINE! Every single time. I do catch myself sooner these days, so I am learning. XD
There's nothing wrong with that style of comment in a shared frame of reference! I just have not actually seen Tenko!
Which I knew, so the fact that the two things were not incompatible in my mind was a handy warning light.
(Tenko is very good indeed and was what the Wish Me Luck creators made before they made WML, but it is pretty harrowing & at least a dozen major characters die, so not cheerful watching! It just turned out to have Stephanie Cole as Bea, the grumpy Lesbian atheist doctor who got an inconvenient BFF/soulmate in the shape of a fierce Dutch nun and they were so great. There was a lot of other good stuff and people also, of course, but Bea was the best. I watched it off the TV years ago and have never managed to get my own copy, though, sadly.)
Although that is a compelling argument for.
I mean, they're not alike, though. If you put Londo and G'kar in a room for a very long time they would a) be very noisy and b) have sex sooner or later or kill each other depending, but Bea and Sister Ulrica would a) be silently intensely happy to spend time together and b) painfully never have sex in a million years because of their combined Religious Issues.