That could be a topic for a slow afternoon - rate the suicides of famous intellectuals by how cool the suicide was.

I remember reading over my mother's shoulder when she was working on a poetry syllabus once, and realizing that you could have a whole trimester-long class on Female Poets in the 20th Century Who Killed Themselves.

Okay, it was really a matter of discovering on the same day that Virginia Woolf, Anne Sexton, and Sylvia Plath had all done themselves in, as opposed to being hit accidentally by garbage trucks or dying of old age surrounded by eccentric grandchildren.

Oh wait - now I remember. I think he was handling some chemical (cyanide?) and he got a little on his fingers. Then he touched the apple.

That's the theory, anyway.

Who was the female Beat poet who died after receiving overly strong electroshock therapy (that her parents made her get because she wasn't a proper '50s woman)?

That does suck Allyson. But vacation is on it's way...you'll make it through.

I’m not allowed on the board during the day anymore

Man. You had a bad day, too.

My day sucked too, in the end.

Don't want hairpats, though.

What if I just tell you I looooove you?

My body aches all to hell, but other folks have it worse.

ION, how long does it take you to type the alphabet? It took me about 9.1634 seconds. (I'm not a fast typist.)

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Can you believe someone did it in 1.5 seconds?

I totally can't beat anyone in the "I had a shitty day" game. I've definitely had worse.

6.12 and change, but I think it might improve on a different computer. For some reason Safari is being ultra-sluggish, and Firefox is only slightly better. I am just enough of a dork that I really, really want to run back to the office and try again. But I won't, because that would just be fucking depressing.