coyotes sound like babies screaming.

Huh, whenever I hear a pack of them roaming down Franklin Blvd, they make a weird burbling susurration that sounds like some laughing, idiot elder god from a Lovecraft story.

Sean, are you sure they're coyotes? I mean, have you looked? Because if you didn't get a visual ID, it probably was an Elder God. I hear they like to hang in Hollywood these days.

The coyote stories are both creepy and amusing. I hear we have some in DC, as well, but I haven't seen them yet. I think the rats are fighting them off. Because god knows our rats are big enough to do so.

New Rant: So, if your place of work is CALLED "FedEx/Kinkos", you should either know how to work the FedEx stuff, or you should know which coworker does, so you can say "I'm sorry, I'm not really familiar with that yet, but [insertcoworkername] can help you". You should NOT insist that it can't be done, then try to do it, leave me very suspicious if the package I just paid $25 for will actually make it to it's destination and back to me, AND make me nearly miss the last pickup at your store (when I got there 45 minutes before it). DAMN. I've taken a comment card to send in and complain.

(I'm sending in a visa application. I had to prepay for them to send it back to me. I'm still worried it won't get sent back to me. Since I need my passport back rather urgently--like, don't have time to fuck around with people leaving messages that I need to come get it or send them money or whatever, which would probably take extra days for them to bother to do? This is a large concern)

I wish I had more practical experience with BF before I tried it. Someone to say, "hell, yeah, it's going to hurt for a little while." Instead of it hurting and then reading all this crap about how if it hurts, you're doing it wrong--the latch is wrong, etc. Never said, "if your baby sucks like a hoover, it might also hurt." Pfffftttttbbbbb. I'd have tried harder to stick it out. Rather than get discouraged that I was doing it wrong and give up. But the BF books are afraid of scaring women out of doing it. *sigh* /Rantypants

DH just called. He said chances are "slim" he'll make it home tonight. His flight out of Tallahassee was delayed and he only had a 40 minutes to make a connecting flight in Charlotte. If he can't get a later flight out of Charlotte, he's screwed.

I wish I had more practical experience with BF before I tried it. Someone to say, "hell, yeah, it's going to hurt for a little while." Instead of it hurting and then reading all this crap about how if it hurts, you're doing it wrong--the latch is wrong, etc. Never said, "if your baby sucks like a hoover, it might also hurt." Pfffftttttbbbbb. I'd have tried harder to stick it out. Rather than get discouraged that I was doing it wrong and give up. But the BF books are afraid of scaring women out of doing it. *sigh* /Rantypants

This is a really funny paragraph until you realize BF /= boyfriend.

Hah! That's what I was thinking, Aimee! I saw "practical experience/try it/BF" and thought "WHAT did she want to try with her boyfriend that hurt?? Whoah!". And then realized BF was breastfeeding, and not so much.

Aw, my co-workers just gave me a Powerpuff Girls fudge cake with "Happy birthday, M...." in pink icing. Hee!

Is it your birfusday???

It was on Saturday. I'm getting Up There.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY GC!!!!!