PASTA wrote: Mon Jul 05, 2021 11:02 am Trying to slide this in real low-profile like. My appeal on my disability claim was approved last week. I don't have to work, or fight to prove that it's extremely difficult for me to work anymore. I'm noticing a sadness, along with relief. My identification with my career extended to the point of being my handle on some weird indie rock forum.

I found out the same day Patrick got his news. I'm very excited to start letting the seeds I've planted over the years begin to develop. No idea what's next. I'm grateful.

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PASTA wrote: Mon Jul 05, 2021 11:02 am Trying to slide this in real low-profile like. My appeal on my disability claim was approved last week. I don't have to work, or fight to prove that it's extremely difficult for me to work anymore. I'm noticing a sadness, along with relief. My identification with my career extended to the point of being my handle on some weird indie rock forum.

I found out the same day Patrick got his news. I'm very excited to start letting the seeds I've planted over the years begin to develop. No idea what's next. I'm grateful.

Absolutely wonderful news, Pasta! And very well-deserved!

Been separated since October ‘19.

Get along great, cohabiting since Spring 2020 to care for our kid during the apooocalypse.

Divorce finalized today.

I’ll be under the porch, with the rats who found the birdseed.

Happy England are going to play for a trophy this weekend, unhappy that it was at the expense of Denmark, feeling aggrieved it was in part due to a pretty blatant dive resulting in a penalty.

jason from volo wrote: Wed Jul 07, 2021 12:52 pm I went into my work office today for the first time since March 2020.

Just as I left it. All of the calendars on the wall and in the cubes still say March 2020. And there's like 10 people here in a building that normally has somewhere approaching 1000.

It is so fucked up.. like the next thing I plan to see is a herd of zombies coming around the corner of the hall.

In Zone One, a zombie novel from a few years ago, they're clearing out an office building and encounter zombies who had been locked in a conference room, just doing their zombie thing, for five years or so. Couldn't help but think the author, Colson Whitehead, was trying to, you know, tell me something.

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motorbike guy wrote: Thu Jul 08, 2021 7:34 am

bumble wrote: Wed Jul 07, 2021 5:06 pm Been separated since October ‘19.

Get along great, cohabiting since Spring 2020 to care for our kid during the apooocalypse.

Divorce finalized today.

I’ll be under the porch, with the rats who found the birdseed.

aw sweetest. sorry. and congratulations.

NEXT!

Was this meant to be dickish? Because it comes off pretty dickish.

dontfeartheringo wrote: Thu Jul 08, 2021 9:16 am

motorbike guy wrote: Thu Jul 08, 2021 7:34 am

bumble wrote: Wed Jul 07, 2021 5:06 pm Been separated since October ‘19.

Get along great, cohabiting since Spring 2020 to care for our kid during the apooocalypse.

Divorce finalized today.

I’ll be under the porch, with the rats who found the birdseed.

aw sweetest. sorry. and congratulations.

NEXT!

Was this meant to be dickish? Because it comes off pretty dickish.

no, not meant to be dickish, meant to be supportive and sympathetic.

too curt?

sorry bumble. not dickish, really.

bumble wrote: Wed Jul 07, 2021 5:06 pm Been separated since October ‘19.

Get along great, cohabiting since Spring 2020 to care for our kid during the apooocalypse.

Divorce finalized today.

I’ll be under the porch, with the rats who found the birdseed.

Oh jeez, Bumble. I'm so sorry you're going through this. Sending best wishes, and a sloth:

I recorded a short album's worth of drums today. My timing is terrible; the last 2 years I haven't had much time to play and it shows. But I have some ideas I need to get out of my head, and demos are just sketches for later anyway. Probably going to apply for an LICSW-track job at a well-known hospital in the region. It's either that or case management, which feels like it would drive me insane... especially since I have some minor clinical experience already. The policy, advocacy, research, and public administration jobs I was initially looking for just aren't materializing, so I'm going to have to take a roundabout path. No biggie.