Best wishes to you and your family, -t.

Now people are asking me grammar questions about technical stuff. If something is extended "until a certain date", is that midnight of that date, or midnight of the day after that date?

HOW THE HELL SHOULD I KNOW. The person who requested it in with that phrasing is ESL to begin with and notorious for weird grammar.

And I'm having a weird moment where I'm hyperaware that my limbs are ....limbs. It's very strange.

I'm so very sorry, -t, for your grandmother's passing and for all you've had to endure. All sympathies and punctuation to you and your family.

-t, much strength to you. Much, much strength.

I'm very sorry, -t.

Try not to get bitten by stuff.

I will heed both this advice, and the example set by those before me.

Yes, don't come back a weremonkey or something. But have a great trip (when it happens later).

That Jamie Foxx story is just appalling. Brain dead doesn't even begin to express the level of stupidity involved.

Hippo birdies to Nutty!

All the best wishes for peace and strength to -t and family.

Timelies.

Happy Birthday, Nutty!

Happy Birthday, Nutty!!!

So sorry for your loss, -t. But glad you're safe.

And, happy birthday, Nutty!

Those stupid boys are lucky Jamie Foxx didn't just kick their butts into court. I wouldn't be surprised if that was actionable, considering it happened at work. (One of my co-workers always leans over to me after my boss rants and walks away, and says, "That's actionable harrassment, you know. I'll witness!")

Quick Question for people who work at Uni/Looniversities:

I am having an argument with the theatre department over work study students. I just feel like what we do is not the way work study is intended to work (or worked at all when I was in school).

First, let me say that we pay students incorrectly anyway. We budget a certain amount, say $500, for a student worker in a certain job (costume intern, Master Electrician, Props Master). Because students have to be paid hourly, basically we make up an hourly rate and a number of hours per week which will equal that budgeted amount.

Now, if a student has work study, HR says that the work study pays 3/4 of the hourly rate and the department pays 1/4.

So what the theatre does is pay the student $500 and then has work study pay them $1500 more. But if the student doesn't have work study they get paid $500.

This all seems wrong and vaguely unethical and unfair to me (especially since it means that some of the students now make more than I do once you multiply their pay times 3!), but I cannot for the life of me articulate why.

Am I going crazy?

I'm very sorry, -t.

Yes, don't come back a weremonkey or something.

Right, knew I was forgetting something. Have a great trip, ita!

Speaking of weremonkies, has anyone heard from Gus lately?