What if you rip the pages out of the binding and throw them up into the air a whole bunch of times?

Are we random yet?

Are we?

Are we?

What if you rip the pages out of the binding and throw them up into the air a whole bunch of times?

All the physicists come down the hall and snigger.

I always thought you used the book of random numbers kind of like an I Ching - you flipped a coin or rolled a die or something to choose the page and row and column and used the resulting number.

But I've never had to use it, so I don't actually know.

Are we?

Throw a cat and a toddler into the mix. That should guarantee it.

I think some of the people praying for the Pope are probably praying that his last hours are peaceful ones, rather than that he miraculously get better. Though I'm sure some people are asking for both.

To me, the funniest thing about the Pope's passing is the Vatican announcements that refer to him as the Holy Father. It's just somehow ... disconcerting ... to read, "the Holy Father's blood pressure is dropping rapidly, and he is still recieving antibiotic therapy." Kind of like "the Commander in Chief cholked on a pretzel."

All the physicists come down the hall and snigger.

They're all going to mutate and die from their radioactive randomosity, so who cares?

Today is not a good day to be vertiginous. I swear I've never had more than a five minute phone convo with my boss before today -- so of course today it's to do with something she's had forwarded to her by both me and her boss, and I have to read emails and attachments and sound intelligent.

I need to barf. And that was inbetween two other conference calls, which luckily didn't require intelligence.

And then I promptly promised to forward her something, and forwarded it to myself instead. Took me TEN minutes to work out what the weirdness in my inbox meant.

Sadly and happily, this is better than three hours ago.

Oh my god, has anyone checked out Go Fug yourself today?

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Ugh, I'm so sorry you have to work and be intelligent and communicate and so forth when you feel so bad, ita. That ain't right.

ita, that sounds seriously unpleasent. Migraine or something similar?

Or did the office babies get you.....

I'm right there with you ita. The right side of my face is almost numb from a migraine and I am filling in for my boss today. Mostly just staring at the piles of work on my desk and holding my face.