Best posts made by hedgehog

@thebird

It always helps when the nursing staff is awesome. One of the nurses that stuck out most to me when I was in the same situation as your husband was the one my husband and I affectionately nicknamed 'Nurse Dudebro'; he was in his mid-late thirties, and had decided on a career change. He was not the smoothest of nurses, but he was trying his damnedest to do a good job.

@Pondscum

Oh, I am so sorry. And so full of empathy. At least you got to be there with the fluffy buddy. I had to deal with the experience of having my best baby boy kitty of 13 years put down while I was in a foreign country. AGAIN.

It was the 9th of June and my heart is still broken.

@Arkandel

At least my husband was able to SMS me a photo of Inu while I sat crying in the Ved Vesterport Cafe Baresso (which wasn't even the Cafe Baresso I was supposed to be in, but goddamnit, Copenhagen, they're more prolific than Starbucks). I didn't even get a photo of Neko when it happened while I was in Toronto in August.

Apparently the good citizens of Copenhagen are used to random Americans crying in their cafes, though, as nobody bothered me about it.

@surreality

With the exception of seeing old friends and a really great family trip to the Caribbean in January, 2016 is a fucking dismal shithole of a year.

@surreality

You're old? I was there when Jaded Gamer's original shitty, non-forum'ed webpage went up.

@Auspice

Yes. Extremely.

@Thenomain

Best part of that game is when you'd get to the Tower, but you were starving to death, so you'd get BOTH the death sound and the victory sound when your turn started.

@Coin

'Ways of Seeing' is an incredibly important work, especially when it comes to studying subcultures. We'd never have gotten Hebdidge without him.

Fairly mild in comparison to constant migraines and debilitating chronic illnesses, but...

There is no reason for second graders to have multiple-paragraph writing assignments every week. And to expect my son to finish his in one day after being sick for a week from tonsilitis (which included an emergency room visit to a private hospital in fucking Nassau - no, a vacation it was decidedly not) is absolutely ridiculous. Especially since you spent the majority of our parent-teacher conference last week deriding his penmanship rather than bothering to mention that he's probably eligible for accelerated math next year, other than as an aside towards the end of things. Having to slow down and take his time is antithetical to your desire for him to do a rough draft and final paper in one fucking night.

@TNP

Unfortunately, this is all part of some new literacy initiative in the district. The poor kids are doing reading and writing for the vast majority of the school day, with some math and fine arts thrown in, but there's next to no science or history or social studies going on. Don't get me wrong - I want literate kids - but it's really excessive. They're going to churn out a bunch of kids who hate reading and writing because it's all in the name of increasing standardized test scores, and not for instilling an actual love of the written word. I can't wait until next year, when I can opt him out of the PARCC, in spite of the fact that his scores would help skew things positively.

My first college roommate used to keep her room key to the shared room we had on top of the light fixture in our suite bathroom, then leave the suite door unlocked so her boyfriend could come into our room whenever he fucking felt like it. She did not inform me that they were doing this. I found her key, tossed it into our room, locked the room, and locked the suite door. She had the ladyballs to go to the RA about it - who wrote her up and told her that if she'd been in the same position, she would have flushed the fucking key instead.

Turned out that 3 of the four other women in the suite didn't care that they did this because they all shared a suite together the year prior; only myself and the woman in the single were noobs in the situation. Suffice to say. the following semester the woman in the single and myself had three new suitemates.

@Auspice

I would concur with that. At least the one writer/developer I know isn't at all happy about it.

It's good to know that I am, once again, at least fifteen years ahead of the curve on all these trends.

I wore camel-colored hiking boots in junior high, years before Timberland.

I had an undercut in the mid-90s, well before it ever became high fashion

I am a non-Jewish person who has done seders and shabbat for the past eighteen years.

WHATEVER IS MY SECRET?!

@surreality

And, hiliariously enough, if those provincial snobs actually knew fucking anything at all about fashion at that point, they'd know that all of the cleverest, most interesting designers were all thrift shopping/vintage shopping up a storm, save for the shoes.

Granted, I knew nothing about fashion other than what I felt comfortable in. Remains as such.

@Ganymede

May this apparently less-hideous Giant Butter Jesus also get struck by lightning. I mean, if that church didn't take the first time as a message that perhaps a quarter of a million dollars was perhaps better spent on actual good deeds, maybe second time will be the charm?

For those of you who have not witnessed this atrocity:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AR_Srg6xuqs

Dave Heckman, Metropolis Records.

Maybe not a true celebrity outside of the goth-industrial subculture, but largely responsible for exposing a whole lot of European acts to the US, and he didn't make his seed money for his label by bootlegging t-shirts like the dude from Cleopatra Records. Ahem.

https://www.metropolis-records.com/news/456/metropolis-records-is-devastated-to-announce-the-death-of-our-founder-and-label-owner-dave-heckman-