Gooooooooood Morning 2017 Edition! No Political Commentary Here!

[Grefter]

Ye.

[Shale]

Congraaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaats

[Dhyerwolf]

My evil school term ended today. No more needing to stay up until 3 am doing massive group projects for another 4 months!

[superaielman]

A: congratulations to ciato and elf. B: so you get to have a life again dhyer? Yay.

[Tide]

A: congratulations to ciato and elf.

Hear, hear

[dunie]

So in our effort to help make 2017 a less shitty year, Ciato and I are getting married this August.

PRESUMABLY they were in attendance for this.

o i c

congrats

[VySaika]

Conga rats~

Also, Ciato and or Elf, throw me a PM to make sure I have your current mailing address. I am doing another round of cookies in September and will send you some as a belated wedding present~

[Captain K]

Four days without power from Hurricane Harvey.  God I miss the internet.

Could be worse though.  30 miles north of us where the eye went over they won't have power for a month.

Also congrats Ciato and NEB.  I thought they were already married but I'm not known for paying attention.

[Grefter]

Functionally married, but in desperate need of a party for it.

Glad you came through ok Cap.

[Meiousei]

I guess I was luckier then you Captain K. We only had a power outage on Monday. However, our backyard flooded and from what I understood, if the rain had been one more foot, we would have flooded. My co-workers had their homes flood though. So small blessings all around.

Yet people are saying THIS was the worst storm in US history. I think that's a bit overblown given what happened to New Orleans and Katrina.

[Grefter]

Uh maybe it is more a statement about the weather purely more than the specific location and the damage?  Idk though.

[Captain K]

From what I hear it's the worst in terms of quantity of rain, whereas previous hurricanes were more wind-damage events.  Beaumont got 50 inches of rain in the last two days - they're just plain fucked.

[dunie]

I've run into so many woke and active white folk in Germany here that this really could have been a place for me to relocate. But now time's aged me, I have too many responsibilities and emotional ties back in Atlanta, such that there really isn't much space. I mean, once conversations relate to anything Turkey or Turkish-immigrant, then they're half-woke, but I'll be damned if I haven't found a chair at many tables where conversations are lit.

I was also asked out by an astrophysicist.

I haven't been asked out in a while - ya know, relationships and stuff. It was sweet, but I declined.

I feel really old among most of these Fulbrighters, who are joining someone's lab. Humanities folk are higher in age and are heading their own projects. It's interesting how the sciences are far more heavily funded under this program, as if it's just a 1 year job for science folk, whereas it is the only lifeline a Humanities person can try for to do independent research. Oh how the cogs turn! I can't wait for the gathering so that I can run away to the oldies circle.

[Hunter Sopko]

So everything has passed. Things are fine for me. Lots of downed branches, but the windows and car made it through okay. Worst of it was between 12-4am. Power flickered off and right back on a few times, but never stayed off. Cable and internet went out around 10 though, still not back up (posting from my phone.)

[Ranmilia]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/09/11/eight-people-found-dead-after-shooting-in-home-near-dallas/

I don't know if I should post this here, or not at all, or what, but I don't know if I shouldn't either.  My brother Daniel was driving people to this party at the time the shooting happened, and is very likely (haven't gotten the chance to confirm with him yet) the person quoted towards the end of the article.  This was his entire close social group, and part of mine as well.  One of the victims, Tony Cross, was one of my best friends from high school.  I didn't know any of the others well, but knew of them from Daniel talking about them. 

We unofficially know that the shooter was Meredith's ex-husband, who she kicked out of the house and filed for divorce from a week or two ago.  Redneck asshole full of generic male rage. 

Please keep the families and friends of the victims in your prayers.  I, personally, don't really know how to react.  Going to be sad for a while.  Trying to keep on doing fun stuff - definitely what Tony would want from his friends, he was super enthusiastic about everything, worked in game design and was one of the most supportive people pushing me to keep on doing stuff I love as well.  Worried that comes off as flippancy though.  But what can even be said. 

[Luther Lansfeld]

I'm so sorry to hear this, Alex.

[Ranmilia]

https://www.dallasnews.com/news/crime/2017/09/12/plano-police-release-names-victims-mass-shooting-party

Bit more info, good bios of the victims.  Sorry for spam.  Curious how little coverage of this I'm seeing, but, mrf.

[dunie]

i've searched for fundraising related to these tragic deaths. please share if you find any others not in the article.

[Shale]

God, Alex, I'm so sorry. If there's anything we can do from afar (definitely including fundraising) please spam on.

[Scar]

My house is fine. There was a tree from the neighbors yard that fell into my yard but it missed my hoise. All things considered, Irma missed us pretty much.

I was out of town galavanting with dl peeps while Florida was drowning. I'm no soldier.

[superaielman]

Whoof OK. >_< Lawsuits suck, I'll just say I know how that goes. And I'll be up in your neck of the woods next weekend (Saturday), shoot me a message if you want to try and hang out.

[dunie]

attended a dress rehearsal for the Peter Grimes opera in Frankfurt last night. like, I might never want to attend a regular opera showing after that. was given a ticket by an acquaintance who got their tickets from the set designer Ashley Martin Davis (who uses a headshot that seems to be many years old, oh--theater people!), whose p. famous. the set was fucking gorgeous, tbh. he took us back stage after I kept bringing up how great the design was and how deep the set was; he wanted to show us that it was in fact far deeper than one could imagine. Also. there are lights I have never seen in my life until today.

i'm getting to like operas. zauberflöte war eins und nun habe ich peter grimes erfahren. echt traurige oper.

[Lady Door]

Everything is on fire, figuratively and literally. The figurative fires are in my immediate vicinity and also in politics as a whole (local, state, and national, and global), the literal fires are a short drive from me and currently painting my sky with yellow and polluting the air to unsafe levels. This is going down as the most destructive fire California's seen in a while and that's really fucking saying something considering how much this state catches on fire. BUT WAIT - it's still on fire, so there's time for it to get worse! And the winds are picking up again!

I still have no job. Some of the companies have just stopped responding to me which I'm pretty sure is code for 'we don't want you to work here' but how fucking rude. As we get into October/November/December, we get into slow hiring season. It does not, however, change anything in terms of our bills, so, that's fun.

At least my house isn't burning. Knock on wood. Embers travel.

[dunie]

i was emo during an important meeting.

my fucking affect suxx.

[DragonKnight Zero]

Was out at a store in full costume Sunday.  Caught the attention of some small children and spotaneously spent a bit playing with them.  Felt pleased.

Also found out I can carry a broom onto public transit.  That's a relief.