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Nothing works all of the time. I just find that I'm less angry at myself for not being able to be involved if I can find someone else to focus on for a bit. Maybe it's someone I know is a friend/friendly. Maybe it's people that are out in public and I crash.

Last time I felt really crappy I went on a crafting spree and gave everything away and it made me feel okay that I was doing something that made someone else feel better even if it didn't solve my underlying problem.

At least I had a different message running for a little bit.

(Again, it's not always going to work. Nothing always works.)

@Ganymede said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:

I expect a school nurse to take a more scientific approach to determining whether you need to make me re-arrange my schedule thus pissing off my clients.

You'd think, right? But no. I avoid sending my kids to our "nurse" (who is actually just our secretary who over sees the area with the little plastic bed) like the plague. Most of the times it's work avoidance.

Things that aren't acceptable reasons to send them:

1. My head hurts. -- "I'm sorry that's happening. Go get some water."
2. I don't feel good. -- "What doesn't feel good?" (If they can't tell me, then we're going to go with 'you're fine' till they can give me something more.)
3. I feel sick. -- "What does 'sick' mean right now?" (Same as above, if they can't tell me what exactly is wrong, then we're going to go with fine.)
4. I'm bleeding. -- "Band-aids are in the black bag. Let me know if you need help."
5. My stomach hurts. -- "Okay, go to the bathroom and we'll see how you feel after <insert recess/lunch here>."
6. I think I'm going to throw up. -- "Okay, go do it." (Weirdly, they never take me up on this. And never throw up if they give me warning first. If they're REALLY going to toss cookies, it's gonna happen right there at their desk.)
7. My throat hurts. -- "I'm sorry that's happening. Go get some water."

Like, you can tell the difference between a kid that needs a hug and a moment of down-time from a kiddo who is HONESTLY SICK. It's possible.

/rant

@Thenomain

You make me feel better. I've never really considered myself a nerd because all I ever really did was read? I don't play video games, I'm not super into movies and such. I just picked up Anne McCaffery at 11 and that was that. Asimov is my sci-fi God and for a while I was all over Orson Scott Card (why did he have to get so weird? As a fellow Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saint member I think he is way too far out there now....)

I still just.... read. I don't have a problem logging off and curling up with a book for hours at a time. Books are my shield against life.

@Ghost

Man, I hated that pregnancy tests got locked up. Dealing with infertility was hard enough when I could do it quietly, but having to look at someone and ASK for a test when my hopes got up was like a knife to the chest.

I have those characters I loved that just didn't work on the game I made them. Dragons especially from Pern. I loved my one green from PW I rewrote to fit me (and then got yelled at by the area staff for doing so because "we're not Fort Weyr"), and a blue from NorCon. Both of them got new homes with new PCs on HT. My Ha'ze and Kai from PW got ported over whole scale from PW to HT because I wasn't letting him go.

So I don't mind when people do it. As long as they fit the theme then I'm a whole pile of 'whatever'.

I'm 99% sure that I've caught strep... again. My last bout was two months ago. I've taught for 9 years and worked with kids in summer camp/ volunteering for 7 years before that. I NEVER got sick.

Apparently this is just my year.

Thank God for tylenol and ibuprofen. The worst thing about strep is that it makes every part of my body ache like someone has been drumming on it till it resonates with a return beat. I was all set to just curl in a ball all night till I remembered that last time the doc told me to alternate tylenol and ibuprofen every three hours or so. Still hurts, but nothing I can't ignore. I just hope it doesn't mess with the tests.

I am going to admit that I feel super old saying this, but I am super leery of young blood coming into Muing. New blood, fine, but I would prefer that the age swing about 25+. I think a lot of it is that I got into Muing at 16, and I know plenty of people who got in at 13.

We aren't the most wholesome community, and I would rather the younger generation just... not.

This isn't a super reasoned and or rational opinion, and I'm not married to it. It is more a knee jerk that keeps coming back every time I click here.

@Lisse24 said in The Work Thread:

So, all you educators out there: Take care of yourself because you work hard and you deserve it.

This is not an easy thing.

I mean, I've been lurking and reading.

Honestly, it does sound like some people are defending the game by saying that at least this is an outlet without there being an actual crime? If it isn't that then I need some arguments restated.

Difference between teacher and lawyer - lawyers are less likely to catch lice from their clients.

I know it's not logical but I get REALLY upset when //I// misunderstand something that once it's explained to me, my character WOULDN'T have understood. I feel like I failed my character and it shatters the immersion completely.

I really appreciate when people realize that It's me-the-player fucking up and lets me fix it so everything can stay IC. Little things, fine, whatever, I can roll. Big theme related things? Nope. Anxiety goes through the roof and I almost can't keep going.

@Auspice

But I don't have children!

#confusion sobs

EDIT
WAIT.

I GET IT

HE MADE SOMETHING FOR FOOD I DON'T LIKE.

@Rinel

AGREE. Plus points cuz I don't get to RP with Keaton nearly enough. buys excuses

@Ganymede

... wow. Hostile much?

The point of a snow day is because it isn't SAFE for herds of children to be on the road. High Schoolers who drive themselves are at an INCREASED likelyhood of a fatal accident in weather like this. Moreover we put 50-60 kids in a bus and send them off on icy streets with a prayer that nothing happens.

Should your boss take your safety into consideration? Yeah. They should.

Should the rest of us put the kids at risk when there is an easy way to NOT put them at risk?

Yeah. I think it is worth it.

@Tinuviel

I generally don't tbh. I only know if they put it in their poses. After almost 15 years of rping it hasn't tripped me up in the actual flow of rp, though I have totally had those moments of 'oh wow, he/she/they are tall/small" but it hasn't ever broken any of my scenes as far as I'm aware. If it is something that my character absolutely would have to know they generally put it in their entrance pose. HT had the ppl command that gave a brief listing of attributes and I generally relied on that.

Now that I think about it, other than the absolute basics (hair/eye color/height) I couldn't tell you the specifics of my Arx characters descs either, since I didn't write them.

I stand ready for any and all derision.

@Arkandel

M6 white kitty is the same. She cuddles if we gave a blanket over us, or she will sit on the far side of husband's laptop. If we twitch she is gone like lightning.

@Tinuviel

I know, and I do feel bad about that.

I really am bad at visualizing any descriptions. My favorite authors are the ones that spend little time describing the setting and just get on with it. Most times even if I do read a description I'll just pick out the important details and move on. I can very rarely play with people who write in purple prose because I can't figure out what the hell they are trying to say in all the fluff.

(I also skip pages in books if it looks like it is going to spend a lot of time on visual detail. If I skip to a point and realize that I've missed something I'll go back.)

Relating this back to TS... other than the conflict it has with my very conservative views of what constitutes porn, sitting and reading pages that describe what two people are doing to one another is a bit meh.

One of my babies turned this in today:

@Tinuviel said in TS - Danger zone:

If you "don't have to" read it, then I shouldn't have to write the bloody thing.

I would be okay with that. X.x writing the description to get out of chargen is the worst. It doesn't help I've been mocked for how bad mine are. Playful mockery from my friends so I forgive them but...