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Can you really consider Nabakov an American writer, though? (Just because the plot of Lolita sounds vaguely like the illegitimate offspring of Chris Hansen and Jerry Springer doesn't make it an American novel, even if Jeremy Kyle is off the air.)

Oh, yeah. No hills in Florida.

Get the stick - you can paint the jeep. I drove a stick in Orlando for about 5 years. It's not a big deal even in traffic once you get back in the groove. (Granted, it was a Saturn, which was very forgiving, but still...)

To heck with the color, get the stick.

You get a like because we don't have an "ohgodno" reaction for the thought of a bucket of crickets , but ohgodno 😱

Could be worse. At least crickets aren't spiders.

They'll probably constipate the ever loving shit out of one (so to speak).

I think that those are one of the gifts that you get when you join AARP (along with a handy pill organizer and an attractive fanny pack), so sometime after 55. (Haven't joined, so can't actually confirm.)

Report cards are in - I am passing 3rd grade!

Post-op gas. I have taken care of women who've had kids and kidney stones; all of them told me that kidney stones were a lot worse.

No.

Now I have seen this, and cannot unsee it.

Berenstain. You're welcome.

Who listens to the music? (I'm usually concentrating on the dialogue.)

I used to watch that with my kids back in the day...between that & having Gargoyles on Disney, I can have 90's flashbacks.

The recorders are not as bad as I'd feared, but the music teacher makes up for it.

You're a bullshit artist, but it's not going to work in this case. Good luck.

Don't tell me what to do. You got an answer didn't you? Been there. Not a good feeling. I don't trust you, Zeni, but I don't wish any harm on you, either, and I'm not kidding about the meetings. If you can prove - not just say, but prove- that you're making an effort to be sober, you're going to have a better chance of getting and staying on a transplant list. Whether it be through AA or some other recovery program, your odds are going to be better if you can demonstrate that you're actually making an effort to change what got you to this point. Yeah, you're not drinking now, but odds are you're also generally sicker than a pig now, too. The powers that be need to know that you're not going to just go back out and start drinking again once you feel ok.

You know, a lot of AA groups are doing zoom meetings now.

Ok, from the heart here, don't write a novel. Not now. When I'm depressed, and I try to do something monumental or new, and I fail, it just makes me feel worse. What does help is doing smaller and/or more familiar things well. Maybe write some original short stories, maybe a couple of new video scripts (hint hint😉)...baby steps, ghostie. Accomplish a few smaller things, and feel better about yourself first.

They're not bad, but but then again, the prion that causes mad cow disease is found in neural tissue.

No,that would be down a bit lower, like just above your hip bone. And your gall bladder's on the right...sorry, friend, I'm out of suggestions. Hope it lets up.

Is it low enough to be a kidney stone?

Ayuh.

It wasn't Covid. It was Betty White. There can be only one.