Vaguely beset by nigglesomeness

Sep. 5th, 2025 04:29 pm
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Including being gaslit by the Royal Mail, like, I know they sent me a text yesterday and a text this am saying they were delivering A Parcel, but when I went to look as the window was drawing to a close, could not find, while online tracking said something entirely different (parcel still in transit to local sorting office).

In fact, Parcel has just turned up, several hours after indicated.

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Phone doing Weird Stuff - well, part of this is not phone per se, it was O2, as in, when I was out and about in the world the other day my web data allowance ran out and they send this message about texting 'WEBDAILY' to get a top-up, so I did, and did it? not until yesterday, which was totally pointless.

Plus, in relation to niggle this morning about Downstairs Flat having an electricity thing doing which involved turning off the Main Meter deep in the cellar which affects both flats, was trying to use phone as a hotspot with my laptop and it wanted some network authorisation code? With old phone this used to come up on the actual phone? Though I was also having issues with bluetooth and this may be down to ageing laptop....

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So there was also that thing of morning routine being disrupted by electricity being turned off. (Though now this thing has been done maybe we too can get a Smart Meter set up, because as I recall having to get at that was the issue.)

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Have actually, this week, started on outstanding overdue essay review, as well as putting it some more effort on keynote presentation for end of month (this is still a goer and is actually up on their site that I am speaking).

Moderate yay me?

Have just been contacted by A Young Scholar who I feel has imprinted on me like a gosling about an article of theirs currently going through the submission process....

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GP has requested to make appointment re routine medication review, which I have done, but am a bit anxious about (but perhaps I can get them put sumatriptan back on the routine medications list????).

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However, in better news, the grocery delivery came early enough that I have been able to get a sardegnera on the go for supper!

the matrix, neon genesis evangelion

Sep. 5th, 2025 11:37 am
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(16) The Matrix + header
(12) Neon Genesis Evangelion + header


(Neo, get in the fucking Matrix.)
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Awakened again in the middle of the night. What's up with that?

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Went downstairs to make coffee and discovered Icky (freshly arrived) had acquired four new chickens! Two half-grown chickens and two half-grown chicks.

He'd put the half-grown chickens in the coop with Black Chicken. We wandered out to check in on them. Black Chicken seems ecstatic! She will be Boss Chicken! And no, that's not entirely anthropomorphism: Chickens actually have very complex emotional & social lives.

Icky took this opportunity to interrogate me about the peach tree from which nearly all the peaches had fallen.

"Yeah, I baked a pie with them," I said. "Pity they don't stay on the tree to ripen more—"

Icky scowled. "What are you talking about? They're ripe! That's why they fall off the tree."

"You think? They taste good when they fall off the tree, but they're so small & pale. At the pick-your-own places, they stay on the tree till they're larger & more golden—"

"So, you have made up this complex theory to disguise the fact that you're just wrong—"

I stared at him, incredulous. "Iggy, I don't give a fuck. I am just talking to be polite and pleasant. My ego is not invested in this conversation. Believe whatever you want to believe. I truly do not care."

That shut him up.

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The two half-grown chicks are currently hopping around downstairs as they are too young to be introduced into the coop. Black Chicken would lead her newly assembled merry band to peck them to death.

I personally would not want half-grown chicks, however adorable, running around through my house. Half-grown chicks shit, & chicken shit is icky. But Iggy is Icky, as we all know, so maybe it's a matter of kindred substances finding each other.

The kiskas are confined to quarters until the chicks find housing elsewhere.

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Other than that, yesterday was kind of a wash.

The sentences aren't quite condensing.

Meaning I can kind of hear their rhythmn and intuit their layout on the printed page, but the individual words aren't coming.

I tell myself that this will all get resolved in the second draft, but I'm not entirely convinced.

Still. I've got to stick with the schedule I've developed for myself. Next week, I start tax classes, & that means I'll be juggling three balls in the air. Three balls is a lot.

Yesterday I beat the Capra demon

Sep. 5th, 2025 03:01 pm
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Please enjoy this eloquent depiction of The Capra Demon Experience:



(Content note for animal harm in the form of killing horrifying skinless zombie dogs. Also one man's slow descent into existential despair.)

This is a notorious point where a not insignificant number of people ragequit and stop playing the game altogether.

Also as previously mentioned I struggle badly with tracking multiple inputs, I have the reaction speed of a slime mould, and my default combat state is "panicked and flustered."

It took me about 7 hours (spread across multiple days -- admittedly, most of this time was doing the boss run again and again and again and then dying within seconds of the fight starting) and I am very proud of myself.

(And right now I am dealing with a medical stressor -- hopefully nothing, but had to go get some tests, waiting on results -- so I will take my distractions and wins where I can get them.)
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Another of the AU_gust ficlets, this one for the prompt "Masquerade Ball" and also for [community profile] allbingo Crime Classics square "Foreign Bodies." I put 0 research and accuracy into it and the fandom doesn't have enough fic to warrant an AU, but I was thinking about WML when I saw the prompt. Anyway, less traumatic than the actual incident's end in 1.6, one trusts.

Masquerade Ball (633 words) by thisbluespirit
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Wish Me Luck (TV)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Colin Beale/Matty Firman
Characters: Colin Beale (Wish Me Luck), Matty Firman
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Regency, Spies & Secret Agents, Ficlet, Community: allbingo, Costume Parties & Masquerades, Alternate Universe - Napoleonic Wars, handwaves accuracy, Matty just being Matty in any time period, Implied Sexual Content
Summary: Matty and Colin get caught in a compromising position.

(I thought I was doing better today but I just failed at the summary sentence three four FIVE times in a row, so I do hope my editing was actually okay. It was only tweaking, so let's hope so.)

Photo: Butterfly

Sep. 5th, 2025 02:43 pm
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I took a cup of tea outside in the afternoon sunshine and saw a bee, a butterfly and then this butterfly:



A comma! I've never (knowingly) seen one in real life before so this was special :)
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harassment

Me: "How can I help you, sir?"
Customer: *Grabs a toilet seat off the shelf.* "I want to… uh… buy this."
I take him to checkout, ring him up, and hand him the bag.
Customer: "So… can I get your number?" 

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Sep. 5th, 2025 12:45 pm
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A lady walks into the store, where we sell vacuum cleaners. Lady: Do all of your vacuums run on electricity? Me: …. Yes?

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That’s How I Roll… Unexpectedly!

Sep. 5th, 2025 12:30 pm
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Within two days of her being in our class, S had singled me out as a target. It was awful.. S was nearly twice my size and stood a good head and a half taller than me, so I couldn't fight back in any way.

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September 5th, 2025: I want it on record, specifically because he does not, that my friend PATRICK WISKING is the inventor of the chocochop! I am merely its #1 fan and salesperson!!

– Ryan

For Sale: Nintendo Switch games

Sep. 5th, 2025 09:20 am
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I'm still trying to raise some more money to throw at debts, so would anyone be interested in any of the following Nintendo Switch games?

Pokémon: Let's Go, Pikachu! (example on Amazon)
Spyro Reignited Trilogy (example on Amazon)
TemTem (example on Amazon)

For payment, I have CashApp ($Settiai), PayPal, Venmo, or Zelle (nancy.lynn.foster@gmail.com).

If you know anyone who might be interested, please point them my way. I managed to sell the Echo Show from yesterday, which definitely helped, but I could still really use another $150-200 and managing to sell these games would take a chunk out of that.

Chicken Jockey from Minnesota!

Sep. 5th, 2025 09:00 pm
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Something with a bit more humour, because this always makes me laugh:



I first saw this on social media, but most recently I saw [personal profile] conuly post it.

The funniest part is the very deliberate way the announcer says "Chicken Jockey" almost like she can't quite believe what she's reading. (Or, it might just be the Minnesota inflection. I can't tell!)

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Amusing point: We are five days into September and I have already written over half of what I wrote in August. August was absolutely a MISERABLE month for writing.
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2025/138: The Golden Gate — Vikram Seth
.. "Dear fellow!
What's your next work?" "A novel..." "Great!
We hope that you, dear Mr Seth--"
"In verse," I added. He turned yellow.
"How marvellously quaint," he said,
And subsequently cut me dead. [stanza 5.1]

Seth's verse novel, The Golden Gate
should really be reviewed in rhyme.
A story told in lines of eight
or nine syllables: worth your time.
A tale of love, protest and cats:
and death, and homophobia -- that's
the nineteen eighties for you, in
fair San Francisco, shrine to sin.Read more... )

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Sep. 5th, 2025 11:45 am
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(At the time, I was a uni student full time, but also worked part time at two different jobs to pay bills. One of those jobs was at a local theatre. Obviously I’m very stressed from spending all week at uni, and every single weekday night and weekends at work. I live with my family, […]

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1. When did you "lose your innocence"?
I was skeptical with a tendency to cynical even as a child, but I'd also earnestly claim I didn't entirely lose my innocent approach to life fully until I was in my forties. (Yes, I'm ignoring any other connotations.)

2. Would you say you have an accent?
Everyone has an accent. I have three to choose from in my native language, and presumably "foolish foreigner" accents in all other languages I attempt, lol.

3. Do you hope to be married (married again if divorced)?
It's complicated but, yes, like most people I prefer having a life partner of some kind.

4. If you could take one technology to a desert island (the obvious satellite phone excluded), what would it be?
Hmm, depends on the type and position of the island but I'd choose whatever was most likely to get me back home safely, either transport or signalling. If I'm stuck there then I'll take a Star Trek style replicator, I suppose, although I'm not sure how those are supposed to work (presumably one has to feed in some sort of raw materials which might render it useless). So at the other end of the tech spectrum I'd want the most reliable low tech fire-starter (twisted firestarter...).

5. What is the last activity you bought a ticket for?
Boat trip to Ynys Echni, which is an island but neither deserted nor a desert. I like boat trips. :-) Before that would be a bus ride. My other regular tickets are train, museum / exhibition, and cinema.

6. Tell me all your most secret... tickets*? :D
* I'm assuming you all have accents and the sense to escape from a desert island. The state of your personal relationships with yourself and the world are your own business afaic. ;-)

Day 9 Reveals 2025

Sep. 5th, 2025 07:18 am
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A Homecoming for Robins (Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics))
written by [archiveofourown.org profile] DayenuRose, performed by [archiveofourown.org profile] Litra
Summary: What started as a simple surveillance case became something so much more when Robin spies Jason Todd stealing tires. The problem--Jason is supposed to be dead!
Now Robin is on the much more difficult case to bring Jason home.

Winging Against the Storm (Captain America (Chris Evans Movies), Agent Carter (TV))
written by [archiveofourown.org profile] nineofhearts, performed by [archiveofourown.org profile] Cinnamonbunprotectionagency
Summary: Set during WWII, Peggy has joined the WASPs flying planes for her country in the US, while Steve (no-serum) is a ground mechanic for the Army’s airfleet. Steve is stationed at an airfield that Peggy occasionally ferries planes to, creating an opportunity for them to meet one day when Peggy’s plane almost falls out of the sky.

The Apothecary's Self Saving System [text, audio] (人渣反派自救系统 - 墨香铜臭 | The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù, 薬屋のひとりごと | Kusuriya no Hitorigoto | The Apothecary Diaries (Anime), 薬屋のひとりごと | Kusuriya no Hitorigoto | The Apothecary Diaries (Manga))
written by [archiveofourown.org profile] XxMiserySmilesxX, performed by [archiveofourown.org profile] MathematicalSparkles
Summary: So Shen Yuan is kidnapped and taken to the Inner Huan Hua Palace to serve as an maid just a few months after she FINALLY made it as an apothecary? Excellent. Just excellent! Add in a few murder-mysteries, a whole lot of poison, a gaggle of Ladies in Waiting, and a certain curly-haired eunuch who won't leave her the fuck alone, and it seems she has her work cut out for her. Now for the main issue: keeping her head attached to her neck in the process!

Resonance, or Patrick's Podcast (Schitt's Creek)
written by [archiveofourown.org profile] rockinhamburger, performed by [archiveofourown.org profile] Amanita_Fierce
Summary: You’re listening to Mind Your Small Business, a podcast to help you with your small business. I’m your host, Patrick. Welcome to the first episode of this show. My husband David says I should start with a “brief biography to help brand myself as a trustworthy source” and if that isn’t good business advice, I don’t know what is.

Patrick starts a podcast about running a small business. His husband is a pretty central figure.

Dispatch from a Hidden War (Animorphs - Katherine A. Applegate)
written by [archiveofourown.org profile] Poetry, performed by [archiveofourown.org profile] Talviaamu, [archiveofourown.org profile] Poetry, [archiveofourown.org profile] Bauglamir, [archiveofourown.org profile] horchatapods, [archiveofourown.org profile] redtailedhawk90, [archiveofourown.org profile] AppleSapling, [archiveofourown.org profile] klb, and [archiveofourown.org profile] Aether
Summary: After the end of the Andalite-Yeerk War, National Public Radio puts out a news series looking back on the events of a war against Earth that most of the planet never knew about. Today on Dispatch from a Hidden War, we hear about a hidden tragedy that played out one sunny night in the Arctic Circle.

Starwatchers [text, audio] (The Mandalorian (TV), Star Wars - All Media Types)
written by [archiveofourown.org profile] deliciousblizzardshark, performed by [archiveofourown.org profile] mistbornhero
Summary: Lilt: Hi friends, I’m Lilt Feray
Chix: And I’m Chix Manro
Lilt: and this is Starwatchers, your one-stop source for all Luke Skywalker news, sightings and trivia

“don’t shoot” and other bad ways to meet your soulmate [text, audio] (Marvel Cinematic Universe)
written by [archiveofourown.org profile] ziazippy5379, performed by [archiveofourown.org profile] semperfiona
Summary: Natasha wanted out, wanted a new life away from Russia. She wanted more control over her life, and the only way she could find with even the slightest chance was by going with the agent known as Hawkeye.

We Still Miss You, Old Friend (Merrily We Roll Along - Sondheim/Furth)
written by [archiveofourown.org profile] septemberbells, performed by [archiveofourown.org profile] horchatapods
Summary: A few scant months after Gussie followed Frank out of that disastrous interview, she sees Mary in another news studio. She has the completely undignified urge to hiss like the stray cat that drops in at her place no less than once a week for the food she pretends not to feed it, to guard her territory, her career, her life. "I'm the star here," she doesn't say. Lord help her, she thinks it, though.

The Royal Invitation (Disney Theatrical Animated Universe, Frozen (Disney Movies), Beauty and the Beast - All Media Types, Moana (Disney Animated Movies), Aladdin (Disney Animated Movies))
written by [archiveofourown.org profile] flipflop_diva, performed by [archiveofourown.org profile] J0305
Summary: Dear Disney Princesses,

Your presence is humbly requested at a Royal Gathering unlike no other — where royalty can come together to relax, to learn and to lead their kingdoms into the future!

The invitation came without fanfare and without a signer. The actual gathering was even worse.

between the saltwater and the sea-strand (Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005))
written by [archiveofourown.org profile] shadowsong26, performed by [archiveofourown.org profile] Elle_dubs
Summary: For a moment, between Zuko’s ship exploding and Iroh finding him on the beach, the world holds its breath.

a memory in the attic (Warehouse 13)
written by [archiveofourown.org profile] coffee_and_cardamom, performed by [archiveofourown.org profile] thunder_of_dragons
Summary: The Warehouse remembers.
Three moments, forgotten in time. Or: Claudia endures.

she likes me for me (Dimension 20 (Web Series))
written by [archiveofourown.org profile] travvymybeloved, performed by [archiveofourown.org profile] Poluche
Summary: Fig was no stranger to playing as an adult. She was known for it, really, throwing herself into relationship drama with whatever workforce she could weasel her way into. Jawbone had had so many concerned conversations about it with her. She had just never been herself in an adult relationship, and with the realization that she had an adult life now came the realization that Ayda had been living one already.
Fig would hang the stars in the sky for Ayda if given the opportunity. Failing that, for now, she could settle for upgrading them to a proper adult relationship. She had fun with being young, typical teenagers, but she was great at rolling with the punches. Her life had changed, so now her relationship would change. That’s how these things went.
She just had to figure out what a proper adult relationship entailed.

'cause dying on your lips is how i wanna go [text, audio] (Our Flag Means Death (TV))
written by [archiveofourown.org profile] shadoweddepths, performed by [archiveofourown.org profile] coveredinbees
Summary: Izzy can’t help it if he notices Bonnet sometimes. If his eyes land on the bulge of muscle under Bonnet’s rolled-up sleeves. If he occasionally wonders what it might be like to have those hands on him, those delicate and unscarred hands. If he thinks about the shape of Bonnet’s mouth, the curve of his lips and the particular quirk of his self-satisfied smile. If he just – just looks, sometimes, in ways he should definitely not be looking at his fucking boyfriend’s boyfriend.
“I’ve seen the way you look at me,” he says as if he can read Izzy’s mind. “I’ve seen you stare at my mouth.”
“You’ve seen jack shit,” Izzy retorts. Like fuck is he going to admit to any of that.
“I know what I’ve seen, Israel.”
Oh, fuck. The sound of his full name, spoken like that, sends shivers racing down his side. It’s a fight to keep his body in check, to keep himself from visibly reacting. He feels like he’s balanced on the edge of the cliff, still waiting to see which side he’s going to fall down. Like a step in either direction will irrevocably change his life in ways he hasn’t even realized yet.

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Sep. 5th, 2025 11:00 am
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I am watching a quiz show with my family. My brother suggests an answer to one of the questions: Brother: Can I be super holy and say ‘pray’? Me: No, because I was going to say that! Technically you’ve just ‘stolen’ my answer….

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Add Milk To Get Snap, Crackle, Pour

Sep. 5th, 2025 11:00 am
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This older couple comes through our drive-thru nearly every day. At first, I try to accommodate them; their car doesn’t pull up close, they’re older, and I make it easier to hand things out. But it quickly becomes clear that they are the most entitled, abusive customers we have.

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not quite

Sep. 5th, 2025 07:12 pm
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I spent most of the day in the room, listning to an irregular rumble that never quite seemed to stop...

..around 5:30pm, I realised that it was the elevators.

I called down to the front desk and they promptly moved me...to a room at the back corner which smelled like it had previously housed a smoker. You're not allowed to smoke in the rooms, sure. But someone who smokes like a chimney had inhabited that room not too long ago, and I could smell it.

I called down to the front desk, they sent up housekeeping, who sprayed perfume through the room. Not helping! And then they moved me yet again - about four rooms along and there's no smell and no elevator rumble...

What a drama. And I'd slept pretty well last night. It was just during the day that I was listening to that rumble and thought at first it must be construction work, only to realise after hours that, no, it's probably the elevators.

Bad design, as my dad the architect would say.

At any rate, I'm moved again.

NOW can the drama be over? Please? Pretty please?

I'm feeling better still - more energy, but the slightly congested nose and throat again. I stopped taking the phenylephrine after last night. And looking through the drugs the doc gave me, there's an anti-histamine, and an anti-inflammatory, and when I tried taking the metformin (another anti-inflammatory) last night...let's just say it got unpretty.

Tonight and tomorrow is to make sure I'm back to (near-)fighting fit. I should have been in Georgia, by now, meeting the rest of the tour...

*sigh* Okay, no dwelling. Just resting.
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I hit the Feed Bag while I was downtown (because Pip forgot something he’d purchased yesterday) and got in a walk around the park.

I hand-washed dishes, went on a couple walks with Pip and the dogs (including one in the rain), cut up chicken for the dogs' meals, and scooped kitty litter.

We had burgers and Gus’s potatoes for supper.

I finished the KJ Charles book and started True Gretch, an autobiography, and watched some HGTV programs.

Temps started out at 61.3(F) and reached 82.4 that I saw when I got home a little after 3pm. (It had already hit 70.0 by 9am, before I left to visit mom, so I knew it was going to be hot.) It got really windy (there are trees outside mom’s room and they were blowing like crazy); it looked cool, but it was not. We got rain later, but not the forecasted thunderstorms, thankfully, as they drive our dogs nuts.


Mom Update:

Mom was doing better today. Especially after they told her she might be discharged. more back here )

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Sep. 5th, 2025 10:00 am
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We have friends visiting from out of town and decide to take them to our favourite bakery which sells amazing traditional European (mainly German and Austrian) cakes by the slice for take-out. We have told them about our favourite cake, which appears regularly on the menu, and our friends are keen to try it. There […]

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Three pics

Sep. 5th, 2025 09:56 pm
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Last month I had a birthday which as usual has left me at an unmemorable number, so for the rest of the year I'll be confused math lady if anyone asks my age.

Older woman with short greyish hair looking worried. She's peering at maths equations displayed across the pic.


The home screen on my pc is set to cycle through scenic views, then a while back microsoft added supposedly intriguing links (not). It randomly resulted in this combo, however, which is genuinely intriguing. Maybe sheep are deeper thinkers than we'd thought?

Sunset on a steep rocky hillside, four sheep standing serenely. Over them, white text reads - unlock the secrets of active listening and learn strategies that can help transform your conversations.


And this one's on tumblr.
The Rabbit of Doom


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