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Within the last two months both parents have landed in the hospital, a friend lost his house in a fire Monday and another was involved in a serious car crash with a fatality yesterday.

Please be careful out there 😳

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So bullying and depression claimed another victim today. Please people. If you need help--Talk to someone. Hug your friends more often. Remind them that they're not alone. Even if that doesn't work, be nicer to strangers. I'm not one of those touchy-feely types, but goddamn...one kind words can make a world of difference.

Go be good to each other.

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My brains are fried. I need a week or two away. I'd prefer sand and palm trees, but i have a good friend outside Paris that's willing to entertain me for a bit. One of my other friends is working for Tesla in San Diego and might be worth a trip.

Anyone have suggestions? I'm already sick of freezing my balls off here, so anywhere...
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juliju:
ahah south america is hot this time of the year :P
shaneq:
Now you're talking! The only thing worse than my Spanish is my Portugese. Id have to find a friend before I left the airport :p I could cheat and go to Belize...
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It seems to me that as an adult in a reasonably professional environment, that I shouldn't have to be explaining to other adults that bullying, isolating and berating a coworker is not just shitty, it's illegal. at what point does someone look down at their clearly miniscule gentalia and decide that because of their inadequacies, they must make a constant effort to belittle and abuse...
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Poor girl wasn't much past 30, came home to see her family for vacation this week and has some sort of fatal seizure (or that's what we've heard from her family).

For the longest time we shared our obsession with Cuban food, high octane coffee, sending each other wildly inappropriate memes & videos while at work and her teaching me the fine art of swearing...
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nebula:
I'm so sorry about your friend. Hope you're doing okay, and have people to talk to and help support you.
shaneq:
Came as a huge shock, but I'm fine. It has gotten a bunch of us together that haven't seen each other in a long time...and she'd have approved of that (and the ensuing shenanigans) so we're hoping to make the best of it.