This is the way things are - accept it."

No, A thousand times no.

Oh, okay, I'll pack some more sweaters.

I come see your new place and steal your boxes on Sunday afternoon. I could bring pie.

That's the sort of theft I'm down with.

More Lane would be nice, but less Kirk is mandatory.

Congratulations to your friends, Nilly!

NIlly, that wedding sounds lovely. I'm glad everyone had such a good time.

If Kirk has more than a couple of lines then that is too much.

If Kirk has more than a couple of lines then that is too much.

Yes, last weeks diner scenes were painful every time he spoke.

I was just reading a (rather self-serving) article in the NYTimes about why the lack of cohesion on the Yankees is actually a strength.

I read that. I expect the underlying social science -- group dynamics -- is perfectly sound, but its application to the Yankees was silly and wrongheaded. (That goes double, trying to contrast the "loose-knit" Yankees to the "tight-knit" Red Sox. It's not that the Sox were a lovefest; it's that one of their primary spokesmen is a social butterfly.)

(Actually, Spring Training gossip has been little short of venomous, in regard to people who have left the Sox over this past winter.)

The basic idea is that cliques are not necessarily a detriment to group functioning, and that they will naturally arise in a large enough group. Smaller social units mean that, if there's a falling-out, the whole group doesn't go into disarray. The keys, though, are people who can function in more than one clique, providing the social bridges from one group to another, like the skater kid Hec mentions above.

I am really really not a bridge person, but I can usually recognize one when I meet him/her. On LiveJournal, there are people I call superconnectors through whom you just sort of naturally meet other people you wouldn't otherwise meet.

TAR: I'm not clear on why everybody seemed to be running low on money -- maybe the nonstop train was more expensive?

Oh, good point. This was definitely the case when I was traveling in Mexico - the nicer/express bus was far more expensive. Re: the brothers. My cheering at the end came down to the fact that I feel like I'll grow to like the brothers more as the race goes on, and I didn't at all have that feeling about the blond women.

I just helped my boss fire a gun. Actually, it's this thingie that's used to drive nails into mortar, and it uses a .22 caliber shell (minus the bullet) to fire the nail into the mortar. So when it goes off it's as loud as a gun (.22 caliber guns are small and not as loud as bigger guns).

You have to press the end that holds the nail into a hard surface before it will fire (as a safety mechanism). But still, my morbid immagination was wondering if you could kill someone with it....

Nilly, the wedding and the henna ceremony sound lovely!

spend a few moments every hour contemplating comics and good Mexican food.

Timmay and Connor (Angel). Eating Mexican food and playing "My father (figure) is more fucked up than yours."

t /Tim-whore

why is it that if I eat breakfast before I go to work I am hungry by NOW, 10:30ish, but if I eat nothing at all, I am not hungry until 12:30 or 1?

also? I am wearing a new suit that I bought back in Oct/Nov, but just now got altered. It is pictured [link] there, the jacket is a one-button grey pinstripe and then the pants have one big button like the jacket on a tab waist. It may become my new favorite suit. I am wearing it with a peachy/pink microfiber tee.