Huh. The embassy cafeteria is serving rum-flavoured hot tea this morning. It is no Earl Grey, I tell you.

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My tape only got the first few minutes of Alias. Feh.

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Re: Alias

Honestly, I'm just ready for

Sark and Vaughn to hookup.

My thoughts exactly last night. I'm so happy having Sark back. I wish he would stay for a while. I always think Alias is best when they have a good villian, which I haven't seen this year. Gina was great, too, but Sark is one of my favorite characters ever.

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Re: Alias

Sark is so pretty to look at. And his voice too...mmmmmm...

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vw, I'm a skipper - how is your progress with your final paper going?

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Raquel! Aside from the tea, how's it going?

Yesterday I was sick, and came home halfway through my commute, and slept and then watched movies while I knitted. Today is such a do-over you wouldn't believe it. And I may be able to stay in communication, too!

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Alias was good fun. Gina was a surprise to me. A good surprise. And I got a new tag. I agree with David on the Sayid/Shannon temporary. It doesn't really bother me though. I rather non-plot to me.

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Alias: I love the idea of being able to blow Sark's head off at will. " Nobody messes with Flinkman's friends."

Heh.

I mean, I also enjoy that Sark is such a punching-bag and the cradle of sarcasm. I am all about the sick amusingness. He still looks like he is 11 years old, but now, he is the most supercilious, world-weary preteen in the universe.

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vw, I'm a skipper - how is your progress with your final paper going?

It's basically done! I thought I was going to turn it in to the professor when I saw him yesterday, but wonderful Allyson (who I so appreciate her taking the time to look at it for this very reason) found a few factual things wrong with it, so I need to fix those. So, I'll be spending a couple hours on it today and turning it in tomorrow. Basically, though, it's done. I'm SO excited!

Thus ends the journey of the incompletes. I'm thrilled beyond imagination.

Thanks so much for asking.

Poor Theo! I'm sorry you were sick. How are you feeling today?

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Apparently there will be a news special on the "menonite mob"

Kat, what menonite mob?

So, I figure i do 60K worth of work a year. I make 42-43K depending on bonuses that seem to come right before I'm about to quit.

So if I divide one number into the other, I get .7

Now, if I multiply .7 by 5, I get 3.5

Is that the number of hours that I should sit on my ass and do nothing until they catch up to what I should be making, or the number of days I should sit on my ass and do nothing until they catch up to what I should be making.

Neither. You don't need to do the last calculation at all. You're getting paid 70% of what you are worth to them—in work performed. So, if X = 100% of all the work you do now, you need to stop doing 30% of X (or 0.3X). That is, the work you perform should be equal to 0.7X.

The 3.5 number is sort of nifty though, so if you want to exact a surcharge for making you figure it all out, you could tack it on.

There's a new book out contending that predation played a much larger role in human evolution than has been acknowledged--that many of our distinctly human characteristics evolved first to deal with predators and then were used for other purposes. The book argues that schalrs have neglected these effects because we don't have any consistent predators any more.

Except each other. ijs

Even Scarlet the heroic mama cat made me a little sad, since she was so hurt. But she's awesome all the same.

Oh Alibelle, I remember that. I think that happened right when I had Benjamin. I have a memory of being in a hospital bed, bawling my eyes out, watching the news story.

I associate Saltines with: being out on our boat in Biscayne Bay, riding home at the end of the day. Very hungry, but only having the Saltines to eat. Becky (my next door neighbor) and I would ride on the prow of the boat and eat Saltines. Also, I liked to eat them with peanut butter.

Huh. Weird. I also associate Saltines with Florida.

I do not associate Saltines with Florida, but I've never been to Florida. I do like them with peanut butter, but mostly associate them either with being sick, or with soup (which also has a strong sick association). The oddest part of all that for me, is that despite the strong association with with illness, I still love them.

Nilly, how's your internet connection, today?

Laura, how is your son's knee?

Theo, is today a do-over in that you're staying home?

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