The answer is: (Couch) 84. The question is...

Good luck with the claim. I hope he is just conceding and not trying anything.

I prefer Star Wars to Star Trek (which is where Spock featured). It's not great cinema, but it is entertaining fantasy fluff. The original Star Wars, that is. The new films are unentertaining fantasy fluff.

Yeah I've been told that too. I've lost so much sleep over feelings. Not tonight so far... I actually passed out at 8:45. I'm trying to just block it all out tonight so I can sleep.

One for sd:

And now I have to get some breakfast and make sure I won't miss the bus. T this morning.

lol oh. Whoops. I don't watch that one either.

I feel like I've let her down. She wanted me to stay with a friend this week so I could give up. But my anxiety doesn't permit me to be around people for that period of time. It's too overwhelming! I kind of feel like I've 'disobeyed' her and that she'll get really annoyed with me. She's not my primary t, and she's not as understanding as her. She will be annoyed. Maybe I just have to face that?

I prefer star wars too. The modern star trek films are pretty sexist, but the tv show is quite sweet.

Having just looked up the cost of a Mac mini, I'm pretty sure I'll be waiting a while. Ah well. I can dream until then.

To be honest, I have only ever watched some of the episodes from the original TV series, with Kirk and Spock, and none of the later series or films. I am not a big fan of sf on the screen, although I read a lot of sf and fantasy. I liked the TV series Firefly and its movie sequel Serenity. I liked Galaxy Quest.

I need to start getting out of bed earlier than 30 minutes before my bus leaves. I have time to do everything - just about - but no spare time. And I have to bring my tea on the bus, which is not allowed so it makes me a bit anxious even though I know the driver is not going to do anything to enforce it.

I have to admit that it feels particularly small-minded and childish for me to talk about my own petty issues to T on this particular date.

I like a lot of si fi. I enjoy exploring philosophical concepts through a futuristic lense.

Do it anyways Sometimes I feel like my issues are trivial at best, but I think that's just me protecting myself.

Baby girl used to be an awesome sleeper. Always did 5 hour stretch followed by a couple 4 hour stretches. She would eat and go right back down after. Now she's up every three hours, which I can handle.. Except that she has also started waking just to be snuggled. Like right now. She just ate a couple hours ago. She's up for snuggles, but not falling asleep. No wonder I'm so exhausted. She keeps changing her habits. Nothing I can do about it.

The annoying thing is that in an hour she will wake to eat. So I'll probably have just fallen asleep when she wakes for a bottle.

And yes, I tried a bottle now. She does not want it.

I hope this phase is over soon.

I love sf. My favourite movie is Forbidden Planet, apparently it is based on a Shakespeare play. Can't remember which one.

Thanks for all the support.

And just as I predicted. Here I am... Sigh.

I took my daughter out of public school in second grade for similar reasons. She started having migraines and the school was obnoxious about it. We homeschooled for part of one year, but she and I did not work well together, and she needed more of a set schedule than I could give her and still continue with my own job.

I think the best thing I ever did for both of my children was to pull them out of public school. We found a very small, self paced school in a near-by college town. It was run by some folks with amazing energy and ideas, and the teachers were all graduate students. It was not very expensive at all either. I don't know if you are near a college town or could look into finding something similar.

I used to just take the baby back to my bed with me. We would snuggle (and I would snooze). When the babe was hungry, I could just open my shirt and let him or her have at it while I continued to snooze. It was really nice and I miss those days, now.

That's a good way of phrasing it. I agree.

Have you ever read Kim Stanley Robinson? His Mars trilogy has a lot of that.

Well, yes, I do that as well. And I'm not saying that therapy should be reserved for those who have lived through a genocide, it's just that on Holocaust Memorial Day, my stuff seems very minor in comparison.

(((BPA)))
I think Forbidden Planet has parallels to The Tempest.

So Stop, I have a question for you, and it is a question I have been curious about a long time. If you know someone is making a horrible mistake based upon a mistaken view of reality, do you really feel no sense of obligation to point it out? Like someone is walking out onto quicksand and we all know it is quicksand, but they keep insisting they are inside and it is carpeting. From my perspective, when it is just totally clear it is quicksand and they are obviously not inside and are operating on a belief system that is so far from reality, I feel like I am obligated as a fellow human who has perhaps walked on quicksand myself in the past to point out that it is, in fact, quicksand. If the person keeps talking about carpeting, I am going to just keep pointing out that it is quicksand. I may not go haul their *** off the quicksand involuntarily, but I sure as hell am not going to just stand there and go, 'oh yeah, it is so sad and bizarre that you are sinking in that carpeting. That is so sad and too bad and I am sorry it is happening to you.' I am just going to keep saying, 'it's quicksand, Moron; get the **** off it if you don't want to suffer and here's how. If you KNOW it is quicksand and just want to whine about it, own that and don't try to pretend like your suffering is mysterious and somehow not of you own doing.'

Can I flop on the couch and sigh a really big sigh?

*makes room for NowhereUSA to flop*

*flops down and sighs really loudly*

To me this comes across as shaming someone for posting something that you view as shaming. Aren't you now giving unwarranted and unrequested advice to someone, due to your interpretation of their behavior? Where is the difference?