...And, I'm out of here, because my dad called, and I'm heading out to his bar (a block away) and I said I'd only come if the dog could (I have to walk her anyway). And it turns out it's the owner's birthday, and the owner likes me ( likes me likes me) so we're all good.

Man, I so planned to catch up on SciFi and go to bed early tonight. Damn.

{{Trudy}}

((Trudy))

Raq, awful story about your co-worker's son. Awful. Shameful. Hope you get posted somewhere better soon.

SA - very cute indeed! Go team!

Welcome, Olivia Rose!

Pwned annoys me - although I'm glad that my deduction of its meaning (from contextual use in LJ) is accurate - because the pronunciation is opaque from the spelling, and it comes out as 'pwunned' in my head. Grr.

Punctuation and ~ma to Cass and Trudy.

{{Trudy}} How terrible for you and your mother.

{{{Trudy}}}

{{{Cass}}}

We usually say it "I OWNED you! With a capital P!" or "puhwohned." It's like wrod or teh, when you are typing fast and miss the "o" you hit the "p." I did a shirt for my gaming/LAN party/paintball team about a year ago, when we all had babies: [link]

See, knowing that doesn't change the fact that, in my head, it's "pwunned" - same as amych is "amitch" and wrod is "rod" in my head. If that makes sense. Um. I have issues.

{{{Cass}}}

{{{Trudy}}}

{{{Bitches}}}

I must get my ass in gear. I have SO much to do today!

I just wrote my personal statement for the Oxford scholarship. It's three pages long. Something tells me that's too long.

That is absurdly cute, Raq.

vw, did they specify a page length? If not, you're good. My one word of caution is that they probably don't read the whole thing as a rule, so be sure to open strong and end with a power statement. If they are interested after the initial skim, they will read the whole thing.