It was pretty awesome.

This morning I passed one of our social workers, sitting in her Tercel on the approach to the Bay Bridge. We waved at each other, she disappeared in my rear view mirror, and then I got stuck, and it was after 9:00 when I actually made it onto the bridge, and then she and I ran into one another again in the elevator on the way to our offices.

Allyson totally wins. Car-diving Lori and skin cream!

Congrats Cashmere! Welcome to newest baby buffista!

Lori is so awesome!

There totally needs to be an Alias-style TV show about her.

Action hero and scientist. She's the Buckaroo Bonzai of our time.

I think the admin sent me someone else's office supplies. Normally I'd send them back or ask around, but it included three different colours of Post It flag highlighters. I don't want to give them back.

Unrelatedly:

NBC has decided to resurrect its controversial The Book of Daniel on the Internet. According to MediaPost, the network is planning to allow viewers to watch the four unaired episodes online -- presumably for free. The episode that would have aired last Friday has already been posted without comment on NBC.com. Fans have apparently not discovered it there yet. A fan blog associated with the Daniel site was last updated a week ago. Meanwhile, Daniel creator Jack Kenny has lambasted NBC for its decision to cancel the show. "I think pretty soon we're all going to have to be sitting in a room with these bigots and have to get their approval before a network will sign on to do anything," he said in an interview with the website afterelton.com. Kenny blamed the Rev. Don Wildmon's American Family Association for launching the campaign that resulted in Daniel's cancellation. "I feel badly for NBC because they were put in an untenable position. They were behind me 100-percent the whole way. ... Yet they were being cornered by advertisers, who were being cornered by emails. Advertisers don't want emails of any kind. The more emails they get ... the more they want to run from it." On his website, Wildmon told his supporters, "People like Kenny don't want people like you to have a voice. They want to deny you the right to get involved. You are supposed to sit back and take the trash. And when you do speak up they call you names."

I'd probably agree with him more if the show wasn't so awful.

FWIW, squids have their brains mid-body. (Technically speaking, cephalopods have no head.) Their esophagi pass through the middle of it. Of course, the requirement that the brain be encased in a bony protective cage doesn't apply either.

I AM IN LOVE.

Now see, I go around all day spreading misery and gloom and generally being a nattering nabob of negativity, but at least I gave Shrift something to love.