Okay, this is ridiculous. I have so little work to do today. Really, so very little. Two hours' worth at most, with possibly another hour coming in near the end of the day or tomorrow morning, and nothing else to occupy myself until quitting time on Friday. And yet, I am completely unable to buckle down and make myself finish it. I could go away for two hours, finish up, and come back here and slack for the rest of the day entirely guilt-free, but instead I'm on a steady rotation of 5 minutes of work, 55 minutes of slacking, and a continuous infusion of work-slacky guilt.

Quick, someone, give me a Stern Glare or a Dire Threat, please!

I love poppet. I tend to give people specific nicknames--like lambchop or babycakes or whatever and call them that all the time. I will also give strangers specific nicknames, like saying "Thank you, Nice Tall Man" to a guy who let me ahead of him in line or something.

Many scents are migraine triggers, but some are just fine. I wear Origins Ginger Essence, which is citrus-y but not sweet and very yummy.

I never did. I don't think I used any endearments regularly until recently.

I picked up the habit working in restaurants and bars, where it's extremely common. (Among staff, I mean, not to customers, though I guess that's true some places.)

On endearments; people of a certain age may randomly call others of either gender "babe". To me, the gender neutrality makes this inoffensive, especially since it seems to be done simply for emphasis.

Quick, someone, give me a Stern Glare or a Dire Threat, please!

If you don't do your work, I won't send you pictures of ita wearing a leather skirt! If you don't do your work, I'll mail you all of my dustbunnies instead!

I encourage Jilli to add "poppet" to her repetoire of endearments, particularly as an affectionate diminuative.

Oooh! I use it sometimes, but certainly need to use it more often.

I watched Bones. Which may have been inadvisable, given the topic.

This is me. I totally watched and, as soon as I realized where they were going, told myself to stop watching. Yet, I did not. Now I feel the need to go for a cancer screening.

Kristen, if it is late and you are tired DO NOT watch some piece on PBS (my it's late and nothing's on default) called the New Medicine or something like that. Due to one segment, I had the most traumatizing nightmares and woke up paranoid and imagining pain in all sorts of places.

Where on my resume do I put, "Author"? And how do Iformat it? Does it even go there? What? How? Huh?

So many annoying questions, have I.

If someone who studies physics is a physicist, does that mean a gothicist is one who studies goths?

Oh no. It means people who study Ken Russell's movie Gothic.