Couch 176: The happy cake couch

Somebody pls tell my brain to shut the **** up....

Artie's brain shut up (((((Artie)))))

Whispershadow's brain shut up as well, it's scaring me over the dustbin thing

Maybe our brains can talk to each other and leave us out of it....
(((Whispershadow)))

I'm quickly falling into obsessive, spiraling worry about h's work... all the driving... and about son driving all over the place... missed my session this past week cuz t on vacation... my worrying hasn't been this bad in a long time it feels like it's eating a hole right through me why can't I shake this off

I smiled too when I read it.

I have to say, the plot was not the strongest feature of the show. It is, at bottom, a soap opera.

I don't think my Ts ever used the word.

It's an accountant's definition of good. "popular = good"


I've always had a deep respect and I mean that most sincere;
The band is just fantastic, that is really what I think,
Oh, by the way, which one's Pink?

It ought to be the sister, oughtn't it!

But it just shows how much the elder two sisters hated each other. That sibling rivalry is one of the key relationships in the show.

This seems like sensible advice.

Plus they get to keep the GOLD!

Yeah, but...

You could spend your life looking.

How many thousand of my poorest subjects
Are at this hour asleep! O sleep, O gentle sleep,
Nature’s soft nurse, how have I frighted thee,
That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down
And steep my senses in forgetfulness?

Why rather, sleep, liest thou in smoky cribs,
Upon uneasy pallets stretching thee
And hushed with buzzing night-flies to thy slumber,
Than in the perfumed chambers of the great,
Under the canopies of costly state,
And lull’d with sound of sweetest melody?

O thou dull god, why liest thou with the vile
In loathsome beds and leavest the kingly couch
A watch-case or a common 'larum bell?

Wilt thou upon the high and giddy mast
Seal up the shipboy’s eyes, and rock his brains
In cradle of the rude imperious surge
And in the visitation of the winds,
Who take the ruffian billows by the top,
Curling their monstrous heads and hanging them
With deafening clamor in the slippery clouds
That with the hurly death itself awakes?

Canst thou, O partial sleep, give thy repose
To the wet sea-boy in an hour so rude,
And, in the calmest and most stillest night,
With all appliances and means to boot,
Deny it to a king? Then, happy low, lie down.
Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.

Do you have any reason to suppose that either is an unsafe driver?

What brings this up now? And what’s the relation to missing a session?

ATAT -- this reminded me of your post on teaching (assuming you haven't already read it).

I'm a bit puzzled that the piece didn't focus at all on interest in teaching -- that's been my biggest bug-bear and what I took from the attitudes of the worst teachers I encountered as well.

Reminds me of Stan the Man Musial’s hitting advice: “See the ball. Hit the ball.”

I disagree grad students are likely to be the “best” teachers; that is the opposite of my experience. I think it’s the clarity and enthusiasm and ability to consider the material from the student point of view that’s key.

As for interest, to be honest I would rather not teach. But if I have to, I might as well act like I’m interested in it in class. So far the students seem to buy it. (ETA: ooh, like therapists!)

My first ex passed Aug 13. My daughter’s dad. Daughter and my ex were in touch but not close. He could be sweet but also be belligerent, paranoid and abusive.

He had been ill for some time but we didn’t know ( or I didn’t know) he was critical.

His mother and younger brother survive and they are having some kind of gathering for the family today. Apparently, they rented a room near the senior community where his mother lives. Daughter and I are attending.

I hurt for my daughter...she told me the nursing home (where he lived) explained he had begun to refuse dialysis. Someone should have told my daughter! I don’t know if he understood he wouldn’t live long if he refused dialysis.

Now daughter hurts because she didn’t get to say goodbye. We don’t live close to them but could have made a trip if we had known. I guess death of loved ones often do not go the way we wish they did. I mean, there is almost always some regret.

In my area we have a local comedian called One funny Mother. Last year she made a comical video rant about parents who complain about the cost of school supplies. So, Daisy..and all the other grade school teachers.. here’s the link if you want to watch. She all for the teachers! And she has a whole Facebook page. I think she’s absolutely hysterical. Do not watch if you are easily offended.

Hi happy cake couchies,

Feeling like this is a more appropriate cake for how I'm feeling right now.



Any chance I could get a hug?

88Butterfly88

Thank you

Oh your poor daughter- she definitely should have been contacted in those circumstances.

I'm sorry you're hurting right now.

Thank you