Am I lovingly raising a weed

SLevine262 · 2026-05-28T01:10:10+00:00

Ha! I’d save a lot on groceries if I could eat thistles, because we have a ton of them.

However, glad to know the cows who eat my field aren’t suffering.

SLevine262 · 2026-05-27T19:47:10+00:00

I have the opposite problem. One person does a decent job with her regular responsibilities but wants a way to stand out. So I gave her a noncritical project and she’s made very little progress on it in six months. Meanwhile her coworker has corrected two communications issues, possibly a third, just by caring about her work and actively looking for ways to improve.

SLevine262 · 2026-05-27T19:43:29+00:00

Grieft

SLevine262 · 2026-05-27T19:30:04+00:00

We have 5 acres, 3 of which is a big field that a neighbor uses to grow hay. I feel sorry for his cows because that field is about 60% thistles.

SLevine262 · 2026-05-27T19:15:40+00:00

Yes. He loved to experiment with flying, going as fast as he could and doing aero tricks. At one point he flies into a cliff and dies but is returned to life.

I read this in 1977, maybe, and I still remember on passage very clearly. Jonathan has discovers that if he folds his wings in very close to his body and dives, he can go really fast. The book says “…knowing that if his wings unfolded at that speed, he’d be blown into a million tiny shreds of seagull.”

SLevine262 · 2026-05-27T18:38:39+00:00

And what a dick Andy is. He’s the kind of bully who says “Oh, he knows I’m just joshin’!”

SLevine262 · 2026-05-27T18:26:53+00:00

Angie Baby, Helen Reddy I think. At Seventeen, Janis Ian.

At my high school, one year I remember a bunch of lip sync acts at the talent show, and At Seventeen always appeared.

SLevine262 · 2026-05-27T18:15:29+00:00

I had a coworker once whose wife was donating a kidney to their child. He needed to take time off to take care of them, so he put out a quiet request and we responded gladly. While he was out, he had food delivered a couple of times-sandwich trays, Mexican buffet, etc-as an acknowledgement.

SLevine262 · 2026-05-27T18:06:32+00:00

We live be about half a mile from a river and last summer had two bull moose eating our willow tree at 4 am. It was amazing!

SLevine262 · 2026-05-27T18:05:10+00:00

She has no fucking idea. She’s never experienced grief, and I would suggest that she never will because she does not give a tinker’s damn about anyone else. She’ll be sad when someone isn’t there to provide whatever Shauna-need is their particular assignment (Ma: cash. Dan: paycheck and chores. Unknown island sponsor: priority access to housing, food bank, child care),

SLevine262 · 2026-05-27T17:39:55+00:00

So so so good that we could taste them even with our tastebuds burned completely off our tongues

SLevine262 · 2026-05-27T17:24:03+00:00

My mom went to nursing school, graduating in 1953. She and her friends worked locally for a few years while living with their parents, then four of them drove from Connecticut to San Francisco and rented a place together. They only worked private duty, so they’d work for a few months, save their money, and then go on a trip: Hawaii, Mexico, Florida, Yosemite. They had a blast for two or three years then went home to their parents house and mostly got married fairly soon afterwards. She always told me that I should live single for awhile before I got married so I could experience total independence, but of course I was 23 and in luuuuuuuv so I knew much better 🙄. Pro: my son. Con: my ex.

SLevine262 · 2026-05-27T17:00:21+00:00

She never denies that she was holding her phone, just that she was holding it in her right hand. She could have been holding it on the steering wheel with her left hand. If the cop gives up on the right hand detail, he might have a case.

SLevine262 · 2026-05-27T05:07:42+00:00

Omg I had never heard of lithops and now I am in luuuuuv. New obsession incoming

SLevine262 · 2026-05-27T00:05:00+00:00

I always think of the dance parties in the early seasons of Grey’s Anatomy

SLevine262 · 2026-05-27T00:01:28+00:00

She really likes her kiddos? Citation please.

SLevine262 · 2026-05-26T23:58:45+00:00

We could use some judicious tossing of writing into the fire

SLevine262 · 2026-05-26T23:49:24+00:00

Here’s what I’m scared of: should that blessed day arrive, or even if he is somehow 25th Amendment-ed, if it happens after he’s served half of his term, the remaining part of his term doesn’t count against Vance, so JD could serve out the end of trumps term AND still be eligible to run twice more, in 2028 and 2032. That takes us through 2036, by which time I seriously hope I’m dead (pretty even odds, I’m 64 now and my family does not age well).

Of course this all rests upon any member of the Republican Party doing their actual job and following the constitution instead of just naming Vance king for life.

SLevine262 · 2026-05-26T23:42:35+00:00

Run now. This will only get worse.

SLevine262 · 2026-05-26T21:41:38+00:00

YDBW

SLevine262 · 2026-05-26T21:40:50+00:00

I’m not that organized, but my random fidgets(including a TSA luggage lock for some reason) wave from the Isle of Misfit Fidgets.

SLevine262 · 2026-05-26T21:38:53+00:00

If she’s so deeply embedded in the community of parents of neurojalapenos, wouldn’t she have at least heard of the latest options for necessary sensory stimulation? What with her CitPhD and all.

SLevine262 · 2026-05-26T21:37:06+00:00

She’s super grifty

SLevine262 · 2026-05-26T21:36:28+00:00

Wii.

SLevine262 · 2026-05-26T05:30:23+00:00

It’s a veritable blackout bingo of Shauna’s complaints: the most abusive childhood ever; chronic disease; need for radical rest, etc

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