How do you feel about large sulphur-reeking lizards?
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Just a few on my temples and beard, I think I don’t make the cut as a Targaryen…
They’re lovely, to be honest, but I did not do very well with exotics when I was getting my degree, and I bet these things hate going to the veterinarian…
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I was going to run, I had over 100 backers easily, but they slipped behind the sofa.
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Our new local axe throwing place (and that’s a strange sentence to write) doesn’t allow you to drink when ace throwing, or so I’m told. I’m not sure it’s necessarily the alcohol that is the problem there.
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But ace throwing is harmless I would argue, I mean how much damage can a playing card do?
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Anime seems to think that throwing cards can be very dangerous
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No, no, it’s like dwarf throwing but for alternative sexualities. Apparently they’re all volunteers.
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It seems to work okay for Gambit!
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Talk to George martin.
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So, bit of an update about my wife, after nearly three months. She has a follow-up appointment in Montreal on the 8th of November (she also has a preparatory MRI tomorrow at 8:30 in the evening, which is stressing her out just on principle). The news is actually sorta amazing:
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The lump in her breast has shrunk CONSIDERABLY. It’s actually, legitimately amazing, it’s actually hard to find now.
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Her ribs and her tailbone (where there are/were metastases) have both stopped hurting altogether (maybe an occasional flare up once in a blue moon, but nowhere near what it was).
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And the big one: Her back is better than it’s been since I’ve met her (seven years ago TODAY). Yesterday, while walking Baloney, she actually jogged a short distance. I was laughing hysterically (wish I could upload the video). Today, we went to Costco and she walked around the whole place, only taking a very short break.
I’m just… I’m SO happy, and hopeful. Cancer’s not some unkillable monster. It can be defeated. She’ll kill it. I feel it.
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That’s amazing news 
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Thinking of Gambit. Such a cool superhero, forgotten in the Marvel mare magnum…
That’s so good to hear
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A little while back, I found out about a job opening I thought I should have an ok shot at. It’s for a two-year (maybe renewable) full-time contract teaching for a program I’ve taught for before for a couple summers. I contacted my old supervisor from when I worked there and asked if she could write a letter of recommendation for me. She said she couldn’t as she was also applying for the job. The job posting is basically her current job but a little worse. I assumed she was moving on or they got money for an extra position. No. They are having her reapply for her current job.
I hate this kind of garbage. It’s unfair to her and to anyone else who applies. The worst is, I’d already emailed a couple other people asking for letters and they said yes, so I had to go through the motions of submitting the application anyway knowing I’m not going to get it over her. I’ve now spent probably 15-20 hours over the last week putting together a not great application for a job I already know I’m not going to get and just submitted it. So frustrating.
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Sorry to hear that.
I hate how some companies do this (specially government ones) without having any consideration to the amount of time wasting they generate. In the 2000s I went through three processes similar to that to get a job with DEFRA, only to find out that they had already a person that was already with them (as an intern or in a lower position) lined up to get the job, but they had to announce the positions to the public to keep up with their policy. Very frustrating. Specially when I had to ask for a day off to travel miles away (back then it would have been like Nottingham to Gloucester or similar) to get to the interview.
They save face by going public, they may find somebody amazing for the job, but by default, 99% of the times they always contracted their person.
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IN the private sector, advertised jobs often either are ‘we’re hiring anyone remotely qualified because the job sucks’ or 'we’re going to hire Billy Bob, but we have to interview ‘. or ‘we’re promoting billy bob, so we’ll advertise his new job, but extend offers for the old one.’ (and as the guy who got the promotion and to supervise the bait-and-switch backfill, wow is that awkward.) there’s also lots of ‘we’re going to hire x’s guy as the contractor, but have to interview other people’ and ‘we need a new guy’, call the usual recruiters.’
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Despite this being my second dance with the disease, and having suffered for over a fortnight, only today have I recorded a positive covid test! Part of the problem is that any attempt to take a throat swab triggers a very violent gag reflex (as opposed to my usual gag reflex, which is to tell a bad and inappropriately timed joke), but I’m so loaded with virus now I could probably swab my eyelid and get a positive result.
It doesn’t help that my partner Tina has been testing positive daily for over a week and is roughly a week or ten days ahead of me in terms of when the symptoms began. Both of us had an apparent swing towards recovery before a sudden reversal and worsening of symptoms, from which stage I’m slowly emerging* now. Horrendous. For three days I’ve been utterly useless and Tina has had to take on caring duties despite not being nearly fully recovered herself. Fever, chills, throat full of broken glass, exhaustion and—in an exciting development yesterday—blacking out and collapsing in the bathroom. Thank goodness for kind neighbours and swift mail order to keep us supplied with essentials.
All gets a bit much at times, the inability to swallow water without practically screaming having grown especially tiresome at a rapid rate, and I don’t know how either of us would have managed were we going through it alone.
Keep wearing masks, washing hands, using sanitiser, staying a couple of metres apart etc when appropriate, people. Governments, media, businesses and most of the public like to pretend otherwise, but covid is still prevalent and no joke.
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Oh no! I’ve seen lots of people testing positive incredibly late in the symptom cycle
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I am stealing that Gag Reflex joke
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Yeah, but how are the cats? (posting for my employer)
I know it’s not appealing, but drink lukewarm stuff if you can. Wishing you both better, and soon.
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The cats are wonderful. And spoiled. And worth it.
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