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She is an angel and she was soooo concerned for me. Not one word of complaint about the time or anything.
Statistics: Posted by Ronster — Mon Apr 29, 2019 6:17 am
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2) I am shocked by the behavior of group number one but incapable of actually saying or doing anything to counteract it. I just want to go home and be left alone. Please let's get this over with. I cannot do anything useful for anyone because I am paralyzed into quiet inaction.
3) Eyeroll queen, cynical smirk. (Me, on the inside.)
4) The rare effective person who comes along and insists on positivity, practical decision, and moving forward to something better. These people are so delightful. I can't even express how delightful it is to come across a person like this in the middle of the sludge. This is what I hope I'm trying to be on the outside, even if too cynical on the inside.
Statistics: Posted by Phoebe — Thu Aug 16, 2018 9:55 am
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Someone on reddit photoshopped ladies from art into office settings:
Statistics: Posted by Tahlvin — Sun Jun 24, 2018 9:18 am
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Today a woman - I use the label lightly - in the grocery store was letting her very tiny tot trail along behind her alone very much farther than I was comfortable with even as a witness, much less as a mother who once had tiny tots. The tot was, like, not even up to my knee, that's how tiny, and very new to the walking game, and wearing socks, which caused it to fall down splat on the slippery floor a few times. I am not sure the mom even saw these falls because she was (high? drunk? stupid?) wandering far in front with her cart and another child of dubious grooming. If that had been my tot 1 or tot 3, it would have been GONE to another zip code by then. However, the People Delight Me part of this is that, while I was first unconsciously and then deliberately blocking the aisle with my cart so that other people wouldn't come past and accidentally run down the tot before it could catch up to the mom, another man was having the same thoughts I was and actually went over and offered a finger to the tot, who reached up and grasped it, and then he walked this little child a very long way for a very long time, behind the mom, all the way to the checkout, so that the child would not be lost/damaged/kidnapped or whatever the hell could have happened there. It was one of those situations where you're like, should I go pick up this kid and return it with a comment like, um, this one looked lost? And I would have done so if not for being contagious with illness that might be worse than the kid being lost on the floor alone, so I was truly delighted by this old duffer who took care of the business. Poor kid!
Statistics: Posted by Phoebe — Fri Mar 09, 2018 2:45 pm
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As I sit here in the snowy residential street waiting to intercept my child on her walk home, a truck has gone by about 50 miles an hour through the snow, followed by a small car doing the same, and I watch them sliiiiide down the block. Well, this is not the right thread for such observations.
Anyway back to the awesome. A guy I work with pulled a really awesome move the other day for which I now respect him about 10 times as much as I did before. This is also good because you want to respect your coworkers. The person I work with the most is also being particularly well-behaved and pleasant lately. I have never before considered we might actually become friends but maybe there is hope for us being actual friends. I'm still not sure about that. My husband is not a fan of the other husband/wife combo and doesn't really see us hanging out with them. But then, what is the alternative? People he works with? You can't really relax fully around them. Okay here comes the bus wish me luck getting back through the snow!
Statistics: Posted by Phoebe — Thu Feb 22, 2018 4:29 pm
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They are just starting the Siege of Drezen, intent on retaking a lost fortress-city from the demonic hordes. They are facing a combination of mass combat encounters leading several different Crusader armies, as well as a series of party-size encounters before attempting to fight their way through a massive, dwarven-constructed citadel held by Abyssal forces. So I show them the map of the city, and start giving them the rundown on what they are facing.
And they suddenly latch onto two things that aren't even a thing in the book for this Adventure Path. There's a throw away line about how scores of harpies and flying demons hang out on the rock formations that stand above the city on the plateau known as Drezen. So of course, a ton of debate and questions goes down this path. It is literally meant to be nothing, just a one-off line. And now the group will have another mass combat encounter that fits in rather nicely with a planned Mythic individual encounter. There's also some artistic license map artifact showing a large building on a rock formation overlooking the southern edge of the city. It's not even mentioned in the book, but they keep asking what it is, and wondering how they can use it to their tactical advantage. And I spit out some off-the-cuff line about it being an old fane to the native Sarkorian (native barbarian people who originally held this area before the demons) gods. And they just run with it. So I now have another great individual encounter to build that will serve as a nice post-script for the end of this book. They fucking rock.
Statistics: Posted by El Jefe — Thu Sep 28, 2017 11:14 am
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Statistics: Posted by Phoebe — Sat Sep 16, 2017 8:14 pm
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I need a Twitter account. A person who's going to run around frothing about ethics failures probably shouldn't be cultivating a shameless celebrity cult feeling about some innocent guy who doesn't deserve it, but OMG YES he deserves our love! He can't help that he was born both good AND with a beautiful face, tho. I'm a bad person. I can't help it. Trying to get a grip, really. But just look at him! Read his stuff!
Statistics: Posted by Phoebe — Wed Jul 19, 2017 2:12 pm
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