Ha HA! I've been here an hour-ish, and I've totally already written a decent page of new stuff. In your FACE, paper!

Yeah, sorry, I'm going to be doing this all day. It's the only thing that will keep me sane. Feel free to ignore.

Congrats on the impending Sister-in-Law status!

::hugs my bluest of the Blue States that supports civil marriage rights::

if you divide f(x) by (x-a), why is the remainder always f(a)?

Intuitively, I have words to try and explain this with, but I don't know to put this into "mathematical" words. Oof, I wish I could talk to you on the phone or something to show you what I mean.

I'll try to write something down. It's so clear to me, and yet I find it difficult to phrase. Grr.

Thank you ita for your linking ethics and restraint!

but they are doing it themselves, just one initial set-up time. Really, I would not be mad.

Nrrrgh. Client has written snippy e-mail asking if there's some kind of hold-up, and when she can expect it to be resolved.

I have successfully resisted writing back, "Yes, there's a hold-up. The hold-up is that you are a freaking moron, as I sent that to you last Tuesday. Allow me to forward you that e-mail again, and copy it to all the people you just copied."

The One That Got Away, otherwise known as, The One I Let Go Because I Had a "Jackhole Only" Dating Policy got back in touch with me. He's still got great arms nicely accentuated with great tattoos. Still charming. Still funny. Still should have been a comic book artist, for he has the mad skillz.

Had a crush on me in high school, when I started my Jackhole Only policy. He'd sometimes say, "Allyson, are you sad today?" And I'd say, "I'm sad everyday, I'm in HIGH SCHOOL."

And then give me a cupcake and Mountain Dew.

And so before I came here, we had a short-lived thing, because I was moving and my heart was unbreakable.

Now he's in some sort of long-term relationship with a cutie girl and I'm still a hollow shell, heartless, out of shape moron.

I'm not a bright girl.

(((Allyson)))

Sam Seder (from Air America) was on CNN the other day:

Sam Seder: Listen, as far as the war on Christmas goes, I feel like we should be waging a war on Christmas. I mean, I believe that Christmas, it's almost proven that Christmas has nuclear weapons, can be an imminent threat to this country, that they have operative ties with terrorists and I believe that we should sacrifice thousands of American lives in pursuit of this war on Christmas. And hundreds of billions of dollars of taxpayer money.

Phillips: Is it a war on Christmas, a war on Christians, a war on over-political correctness or just a lot of people with way too much time on their hands?

Seder: I would say probably, if I was to be serious about it, too much time on their hands, but I'd like to get back to the operational ties between Santa Claus and al-Qaida ... We have intelligence, we have intelligence.

Phillips: You have intel. Where exactly does your intel come from?

Seder: Well, we have tortured an elf and it's actually how we got the same information from al-Libi. It's exactly the same way the Bush administration got this info about the operational ties between al-Qaida and Saddam.

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Oh, and I think almost everyone has made mistakes re: dating in HS.