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Depressing. Let&#39;s go with &quot;depressing.&quot; I&#39;ll skip over the black-and-white thinking, the failure of reading comprehension,* and the weird entitlement to write their opinions directly on my site, and go straight to an incident that sums it all up.<br /><br /><b>(<a href="https://issendai.livejournal.com/627981.html">Read more ...</a>)</b></description> <comments>https://issendai.livejournal.com/627981.html?view=comments#comments</comments> <category>estranged parents</category> <lj:security>public</lj:security> <lj:reply-count>0</lj:reply-count> </item> <item> <guid isPermaLink='true'>https://issendai.livejournal.com/627883.html</guid> <pubDate>Tue, 14 Oct 2014 21:21:06 GMT</pubDate> <title>RIP Miss Ella</title> <author>issendai</author> <link>https://issendai.livejournal.com/627883.html</link> <description>Last night, Ella was hit by a car and killed.<br /><br /><b>(<a href="https://issendai.livejournal.com/627883.html">Read more ...</a>)</b></description> <comments>https://issendai.livejournal.com/627883.html?view=comments#comments</comments> <category>miss ella</category> <category>cats</category> <category>ella</category> <lj:security>public</lj:security> <lj:reply-count>4</lj:reply-count> </item> <item> <guid isPermaLink='true'>https://issendai.livejournal.com/627153.html</guid> <pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2014 21:55:13 GMT</pubDate> <title>Ginnie Post: Breaking a Sick System by Walking Away</title> <author>issendai</author> <link>https://issendai.livejournal.com/627153.html</link> <description><i>In this long series of posts, Ginnie talks with another forum member about the likelihood of her personality-disordered mother-in-law getting therapy and improving.</i><br /><br /><b>(<a href="https://issendai.livejournal.com/627153.html">Read more ...</a>)</b></description> <comments>https://issendai.livejournal.com/627153.html?view=comments#comments</comments> <category>ginnie post</category> <category>sick systems</category> <lj:security>public</lj:security> <lj:reply-count>7</lj:reply-count> </item> <item> <guid isPermaLink='true'>https://issendai.livejournal.com/626923.html</guid> <pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2014 14:30:06 GMT</pubDate> <title>Unexpected pleasures</title> <author>issendai</author> <link>https://issendai.livejournal.com/626923.html</link> <description>Thor fanfiction has been tough for me to get into, not least because the fandom&#39;s favorite pairing is Thor/Loki. Guh, squick. It&#39;s not the brothercest that gets me, it&#39;s Thor. I don&#39;t even like thinking about Thor/Jane, and that pairing&#39;s canon.<br /><br /><b>(<a href="https://issendai.livejournal.com/626923.html">Read more ...</a>)</b></description> <comments>https://issendai.livejournal.com/626923.html?view=comments#comments</comments> <category>fanfic</category> <category>thor</category> <lj:security>public</lj:security> <lj:reply-count>0</lj:reply-count> </item> <item> <guid isPermaLink='true'>https://issendai.livejournal.com/626603.html</guid> <pubDate>Sun, 27 Apr 2014 03:29:59 GMT</pubDate> <title>The hole in the center of the first Thor movie. Okay, one of the holes in the first Thor movie.</title> <author>issendai</author> <link>https://issendai.livejournal.com/626603.html</link> <description><p>Superhero movies aren&#39;t known for their tight, cohesive plots, but there&#39;s a fracture in the plot of <em>Thor</em> that&#39;s driving me nuts.</p><b>(<a href="https://issendai.livejournal.com/626603.html">Read more ...</a>)</b></description> <comments>https://issendai.livejournal.com/626603.html?view=comments#comments</comments> <category>loki</category> <category>movie reviews</category> <category>thor</category> <lj:security>public</lj:security> <lj:reply-count>15</lj:reply-count> </item> <item> <guid isPermaLink='true'>https://issendai.livejournal.com/626369.html</guid> <pubDate>Wed, 16 Apr 2014 00:12:19 GMT</pubDate> <title>How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is...</title> <author>issendai</author> <link>https://issendai.livejournal.com/626369.html</link> <description>.<i>..to have a thankless child.</i><br /><br /><b>(<a href="https://issendai.livejournal.com/626369.html">Read more ...</a>)</b></description> <comments>https://issendai.livejournal.com/626369.html?view=comments#comments</comments> <category>estranged parents</category> <lj:security>public</lj:security> <lj:reply-count>2</lj:reply-count> </item> <item> <guid isPermaLink='true'>https://issendai.livejournal.com/625944.html</guid> <pubDate>Fri, 11 Apr 2014 17:07:25 GMT</pubDate> <title>Ginnie Post: Changing Perspectives on a Mother-Daughter Estrangement</title> <author>issendai</author> <link>https://issendai.livejournal.com/625944.html</link> <description><i>The Mothers-in-Law Anonymous forum used to have a poster named Ginnie who was a hidden gem. She was a practicing psychologist in her 60&#39;s, and she had a talent for digging down to the bedrock of complicated psychological concepts and laying relationship problems bare with scalpel-like precision. She stopped posting a year or so ago, and a site reorg made forum posts from her active period inaccessible unless you know what to Google. I&#39;m going to quote from and link to some of her best posts so the rest of us can benefit from her wisdom.</i><br /><br /><b>(<a href="https://issendai.livejournal.com/625944.html">Read more ...</a>)</b></description> <comments>https://issendai.livejournal.com/625944.html?view=comments#comments</comments> <category>psychology</category> <category>estranged parents</category> <category>ginnie post</category> <lj:security>public</lj:security> <lj:reply-count>6</lj:reply-count> </item> <item> <guid isPermaLink='true'>https://issendai.livejournal.com/625723.html</guid> <pubDate>Wed, 09 Apr 2014 16:50:49 GMT</pubDate> <title>Stages of denial</title> <author>issendai</author> <link>https://issendai.livejournal.com/625723.html</link> <description>Some interesting notes on the stages of denial from <a href="http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/matter-personality/201305/hitting-denial-the-head" target="_blank" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">here</a>:<br /><blockquote><br /><br /><b>(<a href="https://issendai.livejournal.com/625723.html">Read more ...</a>)</b></description> <comments>https://issendai.livejournal.com/625723.html?view=comments#comments</comments> <category>psychology</category> <lj:security>public</lj:security> <lj:reply-count>7</lj:reply-count> </item> <item> <guid isPermaLink='true'>https://issendai.livejournal.com/625452.html</guid> <pubDate>Thu, 03 Apr 2014 15:07:53 GMT</pubDate> <title>Adventures in Whistling</title> <author>issendai</author> <link>https://issendai.livejournal.com/625452.html</link> <description>After several frustrating days of not being able to play my tin whistle because the lower notes needed radically different breath pressure than the high notes, I asked Google what was wrong. Google said: Your whistle is a Generation brand in the key of D, which is one of the best whistles out there. Tons of professionals swear by their Generation Ds. They&#39;re amazing, they&#39;re incredible, and here&#39;s a forumful of people talking about having to test an entire box of them at the store before finding one that was worth playing. Because while Generation Ds are excellent when they work right, their quality is all over the place. Here are instructions for tweaking your whistle to fix the issues, and here are warnings that unless you know what you&#39;re doing, you&#39;re more likely to ruin your whistle than fix it. By the way, the known issues have nothing to do with the difference in breath pressure, but do explain why your whistle has angry-hamster overtones.<br /><br /><b>(<a href="https://issendai.livejournal.com/625452.html">Read more ...</a>)</b></description> <comments>https://issendai.livejournal.com/625452.html?view=comments#comments</comments> <category>tin whistle</category> <lj:security>public</lj:security> <lj:reply-count>4</lj:reply-count> </item> <item> <guid isPermaLink='true'>https://issendai.livejournal.com/625180.html</guid> <pubDate>Sun, 23 Mar 2014 11:46:15 GMT</pubDate> <author>issendai</author> <link>https://issendai.livejournal.com/625180.html</link> <description>An immensely productive weekend so far. Yesterday I:<br /><ul><br /><li>Got my hair cut, a procedure I dread and loathe; my hair had started to cross over from Overgrowth Stage 2 (anime hair) to Overgrowth Stage 3 (Oscar Wilde)</li><br /><li>Dropped a load at the Salvation Army</li><br /><li>Got one of the most amazing massages of my life--if you&#39;re ever at the Square One Mall massage place, ask for Lili</li><br /><li>Went clothes shopping--found no clothes, but two pairs of shoes</li><br /><li>Got groceries</li><br /><li>Read a significant portion of the chapters on Japanese names of the 14th through 16th centuries, plus a bit of the chapter on 8th-century names that explained one of the mystery names from the later chapters</li><br /></ul>This morning I awoke just past 6, and for no reason except sheer cussedness, got up and:<br /><ul><br /><li>Put in two loads of laundry</li><br /><li>Converted my favorite, and now very dead, stripey purple kneesocks into armsocks</li><br /><li>Did a load of QC that&#39;s due much later today, solely so it wouldn&#39;t interfere with my tentative brunch plans</li><br /><li>Wrote a self-congratulatory LJ post</li><br /></ul>Now I&#39;m going to go read a book on handmade houses and see what else the day holds. Stand back. There could be vacuuming.</description> <comments>https://issendai.livejournal.com/625180.html?view=comments#comments</comments> <category>clean all the things</category> <category>productivity</category> <category>cleaning house</category> <lj:security>public</lj:security> <lj:reply-count>0</lj:reply-count> </item> <item> <guid isPermaLink='true'>https://issendai.livejournal.com/624933.html</guid> <pubDate>Fri, 21 Mar 2014 15:32:52 GMT</pubDate> <title>An open letter to Fred Phelps</title> <author>issendai</author> <link>https://issendai.livejournal.com/624933.html</link> <description>Dear Fred Phelps,<br /><br /><b>(<a href="https://issendai.livejournal.com/624933.html">Read more ...</a>)</b></description> <comments>https://issendai.livejournal.com/624933.html?view=comments#comments</comments> <lj:security>public</lj:security> <lj:reply-count>0</lj:reply-count> </item> <item> <guid isPermaLink='true'>https://issendai.livejournal.com/624743.html</guid> <pubDate>Fri, 21 Mar 2014 14:47:37 GMT</pubDate> <author>issendai</author> <link>https://issendai.livejournal.com/624743.html</link> <description>A little over a year ago I wrote about a friend whose husband became jealous and threatening when their marriage started to break up. He was stalking her and waving an entire army of red flags, and she was too ill and exhausted to take evasive action. Everyone she told about it said WHAT IN HELL RUN THIS MAN IS DANGEROUS AND HE&#39;S NOT GOING TO WAIT FOR YOU TO FEEL BETTER BEFORE HE ACTS, which only stressed her out more and drained what little reserves she had. I was frantic. A lot of people were frantic. When I didn&#39;t hear from her for several weeks, I checked the police logs for her name.<br /><br /><b>(<a href="https://issendai.livejournal.com/624743.html">Read more ...</a>)</b></description> <comments>https://issendai.livejournal.com/624743.html?view=comments#comments</comments> <lj:security>public</lj:security> <lj:reply-count>1</lj:reply-count> </item> <item> <guid isPermaLink='true'>https://issendai.livejournal.com/624530.html</guid> <pubDate>Fri, 21 Mar 2014 14:21:36 GMT</pubDate> <title>Embouchure: Dammit</title> <author>issendai</author> <link>https://issendai.livejournal.com/624530.html</link> <description>The correct embouchure for the Irish flute is, in fact, to be inside the flute. If you&#39;re not nose-down in the flute with the sounding edge at the level of your eyebrows, you&#39;re not close enough.<br /><br /><b>(<a href="https://issendai.livejournal.com/624530.html">Read more ...</a>)</b></description> <comments>https://issendai.livejournal.com/624530.html?view=comments#comments</comments> <category>tin whistle</category> <category>irish flute</category> <lj:security>public</lj:security> <lj:reply-count>2</lj:reply-count> </item> <item> <guid isPermaLink='true'>https://issendai.livejournal.com/623999.html</guid> <pubDate>Tue, 18 Mar 2014 16:30:58 GMT</pubDate> <title>An Embarrassment of Xiaos</title> <author>issendai</author> <link>https://issendai.livejournal.com/623999.html</link> <description>A few days ago another package slip arrived in my mailbox. I had a second package from Hong Kong, with a different tracking number. The &quot;lost&quot; xiao that Carrotmusic put on the slow boat from Hong Kong in February finally arrived.<br /><br /><b>(<a href="https://issendai.livejournal.com/623999.html">Read more ...</a>)</b></description> <comments>https://issendai.livejournal.com/623999.html?view=comments#comments</comments> <category>irish flute</category> <category>xiao</category> <lj:security>public</lj:security> <lj:reply-count>6</lj:reply-count> </item> <item> <guid isPermaLink='true'>https://issendai.livejournal.com/623819.html</guid> <pubDate>Tue, 18 Mar 2014 01:49:05 GMT</pubDate> <title>Some thoughts on narcissism</title> <author>issendai</author> <link>https://issendai.livejournal.com/623819.html</link> <description><i>Writing on narcissism, old, new, and refurbished:</i><br /><br /><b>(<a href="https://issendai.livejournal.com/623819.html">Read more ...</a>)</b></description> <comments>https://issendai.livejournal.com/623819.html?view=comments#comments</comments> <category>narcissism online</category> <category>narcissism</category> <lj:security>public</lj:security> <lj:reply-count>0</lj:reply-count> </item> <item> <guid isPermaLink='true'>https://issendai.livejournal.com/623352.html</guid> <pubDate>Tue, 11 Mar 2014 01:39:06 GMT</pubDate> <title>Thoughts on the Xiao</title> <author>issendai</author> <link>https://issendai.livejournal.com/623352.html</link> <description>The xiao was designed for people with long, long fingers and no chins. Frogs, basically. Lovecraftian sentient frogs.<br /><br /><b>(<a href="https://issendai.livejournal.com/623352.html">Read more ...</a>)</b></description> <comments>https://issendai.livejournal.com/623352.html?view=comments#comments</comments> <category>xiao</category> <lj:security>public</lj:security> <lj:reply-count>3</lj:reply-count> </item> <item> <guid isPermaLink='true'>https://issendai.livejournal.com/622918.html</guid> <pubDate>Mon, 10 Mar 2014 18:52:03 GMT</pubDate> <title>Xeno's xiao breaks the paradigm!</title> <author>issendai</author> <link>https://issendai.livejournal.com/622918.html</link> <description>The xiao has arrived.<br /><br /><b>(<a href="https://issendai.livejournal.com/622918.html">Read more ...</a>)</b></description> <comments>https://issendai.livejournal.com/622918.html?view=comments#comments</comments> <category>xiao</category> <lj:security>public</lj:security> <lj:reply-count>3</lj:reply-count> </item> <item> <guid isPermaLink='true'>https://issendai.livejournal.com/622721.html</guid> <pubDate>Mon, 10 Mar 2014 13:40:53 GMT</pubDate> <title>Xeno's xiao continues to elude me</title> <author>issendai</author> <link>https://issendai.livejournal.com/622721.html</link> <description>I got up early and went to the post office this morning to pick up the xiao, all atwitter with excitement, with my orange parcel notification in my hand like a ticket to Paradise. The xiao... wasn&#39;t there.<br /><br /><b>(<a href="https://issendai.livejournal.com/622721.html">Read more ...</a>)</b></description> <comments>https://issendai.livejournal.com/622721.html?view=comments#comments</comments> <category>xiao</category> <lj:security>public</lj:security> <lj:reply-count>4</lj:reply-count> </item> <item> <guid isPermaLink='true'>https://issendai.livejournal.com/622406.html</guid> <pubDate>Sat, 08 Mar 2014 21:41:03 GMT</pubDate> <title>In which Xeno's xiao moves another step closer to 1</title> <author>issendai</author> <link>https://issendai.livejournal.com/622406.html</link> <description>The xiao is at the post office.<br /><br /><b>(<a href="https://issendai.livejournal.com/622406.html">Read more ...</a>)</b></description> <comments>https://issendai.livejournal.com/622406.html?view=comments#comments</comments> <category>xiao</category> <lj:security>public</lj:security> <lj:reply-count>3</lj:reply-count> </item> <item> <guid isPermaLink='true'>https://issendai.livejournal.com/622114.html</guid> <pubDate>Fri, 07 Mar 2014 21:50:08 GMT</pubDate> <title>Quote of the Day</title> <author>issendai</author> <link>https://issendai.livejournal.com/622114.html</link> <description><blockquote><br />I see no hope for the future of our people if they are dependent on the frivolous youth of today, for certainly all youth are reckless beyond words. When I was a boy, we were taught to be discrete and respectful of elders, but the present youth are exceedingly wise and impatient of restraint.</blockquote><br /><blockquote style="text-align: right;"><br />-- Hesiod, circa 700 BCE</blockquote></description> <comments>https://issendai.livejournal.com/622114.html?view=comments#comments</comments> <lj:security>public</lj:security> <lj:reply-count>8</lj:reply-count> </item> <item> <guid isPermaLink='true'>https://issendai.livejournal.com/621804.html</guid> <pubDate>Thu, 06 Mar 2014 17:14:27 GMT</pubDate> <title>Five Things</title> <author>issendai</author> <link>https://issendai.livejournal.com/621804.html</link> <description>Five things make a post, so:<br /><br /><b>(<a href="https://issendai.livejournal.com/621804.html">Read more ...</a>)</b></description> <comments>https://issendai.livejournal.com/621804.html?view=comments#comments</comments> <category>fife</category> <category>xiao</category> <category>japanese names</category> <lj:security>public</lj:security> <lj:reply-count>12</lj:reply-count> </item> <item> <guid isPermaLink='true'>https://issendai.livejournal.com/621449.html</guid> <pubDate>Tue, 04 Mar 2014 16:07:46 GMT</pubDate> <title>QotD</title> <author>issendai</author> <link>https://issendai.livejournal.com/621449.html</link> <description>Quote of the Day: &quot;The best you can say about her is that in event of apocalypse, she&#39;s edible.&quot;</description> <comments>https://issendai.livejournal.com/621449.html?view=comments#comments</comments> <lj:security>public</lj:security> <lj:reply-count>7</lj:reply-count> </item> <item> <guid isPermaLink='true'>https://issendai.livejournal.com/621199.html</guid> <pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2014 17:56:33 GMT</pubDate> <title>Mothers-in-Law in the Delivery Room: Normal Y/N?</title> <author>issendai</author> <link>https://issendai.livejournal.com/621199.html</link> <description>How <strike>normal</strike> <b>common </b>is it to want to be in your daughter-in-law&#39;s delivery room?<br /><br /><b>(<a href="https://issendai.livejournal.com/621199.html">Read more ...</a>)</b></description> <comments>https://issendai.livejournal.com/621199.html?view=comments#comments</comments> <lj:security>public</lj:security> <lj:reply-count>19</lj:reply-count> </item> <item> <guid isPermaLink='true'>https://issendai.livejournal.com/620518.html</guid> <pubDate>Wed, 19 Feb 2014 18:49:38 GMT</pubDate> <title>Recorder, fife, xiao</title> <author>issendai</author> <link>https://issendai.livejournal.com/620518.html</link> <description>These past two weeks have been a one-woman orgy of upper respiratory illness, so it seemed an ideal time to take up the recorder and fife. Why the recorder? Because despite my deep antipathy toward it, caused by a traumatic sixth-grade music class in which everyone else had studied the recorder for five years and the teacher tried to teach new-girl me to play in, I kid you not, a minute and a half--despite my deep antipathy, the recorder makes noise every time you blow into it, unlike the fife, which makes spitty sounds.<br /><br /><b>(<a href="https://issendai.livejournal.com/620518.html">Read more ...</a>)</b></description> <comments>https://issendai.livejournal.com/620518.html?view=comments#comments</comments> <category>flute</category> <category>music</category> <category>xiao</category> <lj:security>public</lj:security> <lj:reply-count>16</lj:reply-count> </item></channel></rss> 
