there's also some how can I be a good feminist if my husband supports me? going on, it would appear

I want my husband to support me.

Wait, that's not gonna work.

Do you suppose my cat can get a job and support me? Maybe some cushy government job? Like in the Department of Running Back and Forth Between Rooms For No Reason?

I have zero climbing stories (my family lacks climbers), though I did cut my finger on a fruit cocktail can when I was three and needed stitches. The doctor had my father hold me still while they put the novacaine into my finger... and my father fainted at the sight of it.

Word of advice when installing a new shower head: If you buy one off the rack at Target, the cuff that attaches the shower head to the pipe nowadays is going to be plastic. Therefore, don't go to any extra effort in screwing the cuff in, because you'll split the cuff and have to figure out how the hell you're gonna fix it without a replacement part.

Personal musical rediscovery: the Violent Femmes' eponymous first album. It's such a high school teen angst album for me. Masturbation! Not getting laid! Getting laid! Breakups! Yet it holds up surprisingly well after 22 years.

That's all for now. Have to interview some new web/graphic designers today.

Once he passes the Civil Service exam, I'd think he'd be a shoo-in, tommyrot.

Thanks for the Yays. Best way to counter an incipient panic attack that I've found.

Do you suppose my cat can get a job and support me? Maybe some cushy government job? Like in the Department of Running Back and Forth Between Rooms For No Reason?

Ohh, if your cat gets that job, could he get an interview for mine? He's really good at that and I'd like to be a kept woman.

Belated Happy Anniversary to Jessica & Fone!!

Stephanie, that is very exciting!!

Re: childhood injuries: There are 5 kids in my family and the list of childhood injuries is lengthy. Suffice to say, we all made it out okay with all our body parts and little to no mental deficencies.

Personal musical rediscovery: the Violent Femmes' eponymous first album.

Oh yeah. Hmmm. I wonder where mine is. Vinyl!

the Department of Running Back and Forth Between Rooms For No Reason

I'm pretty sure that's an actual department.

Hey, dw! Cool to see you around. Now Annabel needs to start posting.

Yay, P-C!!! All the job~ma/interview~ma I've got directed towards you today.

Yay, P-C! And much job~ma for later today, of whatever variety you'd like.

Heaps of interview-ma, slow-down-ma, and eventual Kansas City-ma to you -- and WOOT on the actual holding of a genuine job right this instant!

Lotsa job~ma P-C, and congrats on having something to tide you over!

I only ever had the Violent Femmes on cassette, and I'm sure that has long since bit the dust. I should reacquire.

I have discovered my cats have religious differences. The one is a devotee of Janus and observes by standing in doorways whenever possible. And meowing for us to open doors so she can stand half in and half out. The other has recently converted to the First Church of the Beneficent Catnip Fish, which involves a lot of hymn singing, or possibly beseeching prayers, it's hard to tell.