Crap. I just called the woman I have a noon phone appointment with, and she didn't pick up! I'm getting a little peckish, but I feel confident that as soon as I have food in my mouth (whether that's 5 minutes or an hour from now), she will call.
Natter 43: I Love My Dead Gay Whale Crosspost.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Timelies! Happy Ides of March, y'all! Let's all celebrate and go stab an emperor.\
An annoying boss will do in a pinch.
Huh. So I just learned that power in my building comes from two separate and not-interdependent lines. How? They keep losing power in the core of the building. I've not heard so much as a single whoomp. I am about as far from the core as you can be without being outside. Kinda weird.
Yay hamentashen! (I always love Purim, because my middle name is Esther and there are nummy cookies.)
Happy Ides Of March!
Seriously, can someone make this lady call me back?
Also, Julius Caesar's March wouldn't be the same month as ours, would it? I mean, had they shifted the calendar by then?
Oh, der. Julian Calendar: [link]
Indeed. I think they were on the Julian calendar and we're on the Gregorian.
Yeah, but there's not much difference between the Julian and the Gregorian.
I learned as a kid that Hamentaschen were "Haman's hat." Probably, children's books were not up to articulating the idea of bloody amputated ears.
their reading of the "megilah" (the book of Esther)
Nilly, are you familiar with the expression "the whole megillah"? It's Yinglish for "everything." On of my favorite Yinglishisms.
Also, Julius Caesar's March wouldn't be the same month as ours, would it? I mean, had they shifted the calendar by then?
Well, they would really have noticed if their year was only 10 months long. I think July and August were renamed from something else, not added in. Although there have been calendar revisions since then, which is why the Russian Revolution is called Red October, despite it happening (according to the US calendar) in November.
Stop harshing our sensation of impending doom! Et tu, Jesse?