Happy Anniversary Jessica!

See, she doesn't like cold weather, but I don't like hot, humid weather.

We've been having this exact discussion for about 16 years now, although I'm for hot-and-arid not hot-and-humid. Robert's lobbying hard to retire to Yorkshire; I'm lobbying hard for Istanbul. At the very least, you and AS can have fun discussing it for a long time!

Nilly, I'm wearing my Hard Rock Tel Aviv t-shirt right now!

I'm exhausted. I just trundled back from the market with 17 pounds of Mal on my shoulders and around 30 kilos of fruits and veggies in the cart. Greeks are really nice people (when they aren't driving), and I had a lot of offers of help. Mostly they just all wanted to kiss Mallory though.

Now off to the butchers and the actual supermarket (where I can get my car washed inside and out for € 10 while I shop), then to make tzatziki and some form of dessert. I'm torn between peach pie and peanut divinity.

Timelies all!

Hmm, I seem to be less exhausted now than I have been for a while. I guess I'm sleeping better these days, despite sleeping on just a mattress. Must be working my self hard enough that I sleep through to the morning.

(This episode of "Navel gazing theater" has been brought to you by the letter I)

Happy Anniversary, Jess and Fone.

Happy Anniversary, Jessica and Fone!

Nilly,

Kat, I hope your first non-vacation day is as best as it can be for a non-vacation day!

Thank you! It wasn't that bad, just tiring and it would have been better had there not been a run-in with the post office that ended in my rage and my considering driving around my neighborhood seaching for my postman. But that is only tangentially connected to my first day of work.

I learned all sorts of depressing US reading and book stats. For example, only 1 in 3 US adults bought a book last year

80% of all books are bought by 20% of all people.

60% of high school graduates never complete a single book after leaving school.

Depressing, but if I'm above exceptional in the debt department, I'm also above exception in the book buying department.... hmmm...perhaps those two are related?

Grnk. Freshman move-in day was yesterday. It was also the first night of "we're back but don't have classes until Monday so we can spend 5 days alternately drunk and hungover!" for the frat boys next door. On a good note, I only had to walk into their house at 1:15, and someone came up to me, said, "Is it too loud?" and quieted them right down. On a bad note, this means I can't pass for a college student anymore. On a "remember for next time" note, I should go over there immediately when it's too loud, and not lie in bed angry for an hour first.

Happy Anniversary, Jessica and Fone!

Really not bad. I keep thinking it should hurt, but so far it hasn't.

Glad to hear it, Perkins. (Sorry, I had an emergency attack of need-to-go-to-bed right after I posted.)

She got a fat raise and a trip to the home office and her boss took all her suggestions and said, "WHAT SCRAPPY SAID!"

Hooray for Robin!

Huh. I thought the Haagen Daz Mango was a sorbet. Oh well.

They have both.

80% of all books are bought by 20% of all people.

That's depressing, except isn't that kind of stat true about most things? I feel like 80% of everything is always done by 20% of people.

On a "remember for next time" note, I should go over there immediately when it's too loud, and not lie in bed angry for an hour first.

Yes, this. They'll never realize they're too loud until you tell them.

Fuck, mang. I have to go to work AGAIN today.

That's depressing, except isn't that kind of stat true about most things? I feel like 80% of everything is always done by 20% of people.

definitely! 80% of my time managing my class is taken up by 20% of my students. I was more depressed about the 60% of high school grads never complete a single book after leaving school.

Happy Anniversary, Jessica and Fone!

YAY ROBIN!

Huzzah Robin, and hurray for a boss who's wise enough to see and properly value your scrappylicious wisdom!

Happy anniversary, Jessica and Fone Bone! Plans for the evening, or deferring until the weekend?

Also, most of the last several hundred posts made my head hurt, except for the very last exchange between bt and ita, which I actually sortakinda get. And bt remains the most thoroughly orthodox atheo-agnostic I know. Still, Bob Bob! So cool! And welcome!

ION, a world of gronk coupled with mild insomnia. And I'm all fretful about Hec, whose job has been almost nonstop vile for the last few months and whose insomnia is much worse. I desperately want the Magic Job Fairy to wave her wand and transport him to an HR department for an employer that's not so craxy and dysfunctional, with supervisors who actually, you know, supervise, instead of spending 95% of their time being blinvisible and the other 5% glaring and pointing at all the mistakes their staffers made while blundering around in the presence of an impenetrable system and the absence of any guidance whatsoever.

Happy Anniversary, Jess and DH!

Thank you!

It's a bit weird this year because we're going out of town tomorrow for someone else's wedding. But we'll probably do something over Labor Day weekend.