My mom is dying (not from cancer) and I think the urge to feel in control or still like yourself and not like “the patient” can be very strong and the only way to make it through for some people. It’s not necessarily about making it easier for bystanders, as you say. The “pink ribbon” bullshit can be super oppressive,…

I think she gets to call HER cancer whatever she likes. She doesn’t owe to other people to be sick the way they approve. She has her experience,your friend has hers,other people have theirs. And talking about HER experience doesn’t in no way makes her responsible for other people expectations or their lack of empathy.

I’ve got my fingers crossed until the flesh is white beneath my skin, plump with hope, that she is... but... it’s so unlikely.

Well, irregardless of penultimate I have for all intensive purposes given up on the worst of them ALL. Addicting.

I kept on barge arsing en pointe for ages. I wouldn’t budge. People would ‘on point’ me and I’d ‘en pointe’ them right back! But I caved as I figured that battle was over, and there was a whole war against the misuse of the word nonplussed still to be fought. :(

That’s grim, dude. I have to quit smoking so I can make it to like 70 when I’m old enough to be the center of the universe again.

I just wanted to say that drunky Servo read that as #Alpaca. That sounds so made up, but it did kind of seem fitting with the joke you made.

I think Louis CK said that, by the time you’re 40, no one cares about you. They just expect you to do your job. That’s about right.

But you have to take yourself too seriously at that age. It’s your job. It’s everyone else’s job to toughen you up a bit, help you find the right size for things, etc.

Maybe I’m not far enough out, but I really, really remember it.

You’re a better person than me. I hate teens. I just dress like one.

She’s right, though. I sprung fully-grown from my father’s forehead at about age 25. #Athena

She’s right about this- most of us have forgotten what it’s like to be that age, and we don’t have a lot of patience for all the emotions that young people are going through.

Ah, if only she knew how much 17 (depressingly) feels like yesterday.

BRB, getting cheesepuffs and a Brita

I believe that I can gather enough clothing to cover myself before I have to be out in the streets. I am just happy that I don’t fall asleep every night thinking about the What-ifs of an emergency late night evac. Good god sis, chill out!

CAPTAIN Jean Luc Picard.

“Borg, y’all done fucked up.” -Jean-Luc Picard

As the late, great Maya Angelou once said, “Y’all done fucked up.”