Wow, Andi, that's...wow.

Get better, Trudy. No bird flu.

vw, you get better too. Ask for help. You help others so much, you need to let karma do its thing.

Hivemind question: Is there an author along the lines of Stephen Jay Gould, but alive? I thought it was maybe Bill Bryson or Simon Winchester, but neither of those seem to be the right answer.

Related question: If you could attend a lecture given by any American, who would you want to listen to?

pancakes:

Oh crap. Milosevic found dead in his cell.

Jared Diamond? John McPhee? In response to the first, not the second question.

I think Malcolm Gladwell would be an interesting lecture. David Sedaris is notoriously great, but I'm not sure that's technically lecturing.

Question: is it fair that Eve regularly sleeps until 8 or even 9 on days I go to work at 7:15, but this morning she was up at 7? Despite keeping me up from 2-4am? I'm going with NOT FAIR.

Trudy, feel better soon.

Raq, I'm of a mind to process "lecture" as a reproving, unpleasant thing - way too gronky right now. Therefore, if I have to listen to one, I would prefer it to be by someone very gentle about it, like Mrs. Cunningham or Mrs. Cleaver.

Andi, are they on the really really bad crack? The one where you can't spell or type actual sentences? @@ ad naseum.

This is the way she communicates - in written or spoken word. Period. This is the person who specifically trained me to write one incident report for incidents involving more than one of the residents, then made me come in on my day off to re-write an incident as two IRs saying, "I thought you of all people would know to write two."

And the thing is, with her communication skills SO BAD, I can't make simple suggestions about how she can improve them. At first, I thought it was just her handwriting being so bad that I could not read it. And there she was, wondering aloud to me why no one seems to pay any attention to her written instructions. So I very gently told her I had a hard time reading her writing, and maybe if she would print that would help. It did not. Alas, I do not have the testicular fortitude to tell her she needs to take junior high level remedial English.

My jealousy is softened by my delight at reading that Perkins and Cass have enjoyed sushi and fizzy wine and beautiful scenery and each other's company. No the jealousy has killed me ded.

{{Trudy}} {{juliana}} Feel better sweet things.

We are doing chores. My house is gross. Perhaps it will be less so later.

I'm of a mind to process "lecture" as a reproving, unpleasant thing - way too gronky right now. Therefore, if I have to listen to one, I would prefer it to be by someone very gentle about it, like Mrs. Cunningham or Mrs. Cleaver.

Heh. Not this. More like a guest speaker sort of thing. Along the lines of who would you want to speak at your graduation.

Hivemind question: Is there an author along the lines of Stephen Jay Gould, but alive? I thought it was maybe Bill Bryson or Simon Winchester, but neither of those seem to be the right answer.

I'm partial to Charles Pellegrino myself.

Trudy and juliana, sorry about the oog. I hope you both feel better soon.

Hi Cashmere. How are you doing? How are those sweet babies of yours?

They're being very good at the moment! I'm very well, too.

I have attacked the nastiness that likes to live in my shower, and have completely shredded a (Target Brand) Magic Eraser in the process.

Frank, if you stop by here, call later if you want, and if I have gotten some work/research done then maybe we three can get together!