Random Free Shit Report:

(1) Lunch today was good, though I talked so much that I didn't eat it all and then I was starving an hour later. But -- and now I can't even remember if I said who I was meeting; a friend's SiL, who wanted career switching advice -- I actually had a good time with her. My friend's family is rampantly, rabidly self-entitled Republicans (I know, but I have to have at least *one* Republican friend), but SiL is about as yellow-dog Democrat as I am. I have no idea how she married into that family. She must really love my friend's bro.

Anyway, after we talked work, we engaged in some serious Bush-bashing, which was marvy. I like her a lot. Maybe we can hang out more.

(2) I belong to an online market research site -- take this survey, blah blah blah -- and they always say "IF you meet our demographic needs, we'll send you free shit to try and give your opinion on," but I never meet their demographic. Until today -- I came home and had a package in the mail containing a silver-wrapped something identified as an energy bar, with vehement instructions to NOT eat it, not even OPEN it until I got the accompanying survey e-mailed to me.

I'm highly amused at my TOP SECRET energy bar. Which I dutifully did not open. I also got $5 for evaluating it. So -- free food AND enough money to cover 1.5 comic books!

You are the nicest Sean I know. And I do know several.

Aw, shucks.

::scuffs toe::

The TiVo has died, apparently of a frelled motherboard.

(begin soft-focus montage (with "My Heart Will Go On" as background music) of the W. family's time with the TiVo, the activation of the 30-second skip, rewatching sports plays, the replacement of the HD after it fried thanks to the Seattle Blizzard 2004 (TM) power surge, watching TiVo'd shows at 3am with newborn Annabel, Annabel watching Sesame Street, fading to a single image of the TiVo Series2 in the black box with words under it:

W. FAMILY TIVO -- SEPTEMBER 29, 2002 - OCTOBER 13, 2005

Fade to black.)

I am going to fail my exam tomorrow.

I doubt it, sj, but why do you think so?

Because I can't seem to retain any of the information.

That feeling always sucks. I hope you can access tomorrow.

Thanks. It is for my psychology class. I have an A so far in the class and there are 4 other exams after this, so I can always make it up later, but this chapter is more on the biology of the brain than anything else we are studying this semester. Hate it.

Good luck!