Open threadiness activate! 😀
Ramblings from me…
I’ve prolly had swine flu, but it also seems that I am at least mostly over it now. I think it was the actual swine flu, because I had the normal flu vaccination and my symptoms were more in line with the swine variety. It’s been tons of fun. My stomach has been a mess. I’ve been feverish. I’ve been ridiculously easily tired out to the point of dizziness or nausea. I’m scheduled to work tomorrow, so hopefully I’ll be ready and able to take it on… wish me luck!
The leaves are turning where I live and OMG… gorgeous!
Back to trying to wake up…
–AngryGrayRainbows
Angry Gray Rainbows 
Having swine flu now is like getting a tattoo just before they became all-the-rage. You’re a hip trendsetter.
Peace,
Shannon
Please do pardon my grumpings. It’s been a rough morning.
What do you do with somebody with a painfully over-inflated sense of self-importance who has to turn everything around onto them? I’ve dealt with people like that on the internet, where they love to come out and play, but never in real life before, and I’m sitting here stumped and totally miserable.
I don’t expect a near-stranger to know why just getting a chance to be here means so much to me, but my god does it tick me off seeing someone take it as a given and complain it isn’t good enough. It hurts to be automatically dismissed or patronizingly mansplained to because I have to work hard to succeed instead of coasting through effortlessly or because my background is considered inferior.
It’s like, ffs, bitching about exams is a time-honored college tradition. Let me do it with the cute guy I met yesterday in peace instead of making it all about you because you fancy yourself smarter than the professor.
Bee – I am not exactly sure what you are saying but I am sorry you have been dismissed and/or patronized on the net or IRL. I am glad that being here does mean something to. Being in a place where women of all sizes are able to share and be respected means a lot to me. It seems like the entire world is devoted to telling fat people what is wrong with them and it is nice to finally find some place that does not.
I am definitely a work in progress. I am still not happy with my body and would like it to be more conventional. Still, I am becoming more confident and more accepting as time passes.
Don’t give up on yourself or FA.