That's one smug looking cat. shrift, I take it the kitten knows its hit the jackpot.

It totally has. Our last family cat died at the end of April, I moved to Chicago in May, and my mom gets off work for the summer very shortly, which means that kitten will have the entire house and my mother for her willing slave.

Could I get Random Ego Boostage, please? I'm a good person, and mumble something I forget, and People Like Me? I used to be sexy, I'm occasionally smart, and I have terribly good intentions?

I'm a wee bit tipsy, and nervous about tomorrow. Fucking high school. Fucking... fuck. Fuck.

In return, I offer... uh. I made a Geometry Jeopardy game! And I have many amusing papers about pi. Oh! And! Some kid said he wished I taught Algebra II so I could be his teacher next year. Which, honestly? Even if he IS just kissing ass? So. Sweet. So this one total... er, two or three promising young women with unfortunate social propensities are not the end of the world, right? Even if I didn't handle it right? Nobody died. And even if they did lose all respect for me, who cares! I have to spend less than three more hours with them in our entire lives!

Okay, drunkenness fun. Buffistas yay! Whee!

Er, sorry. I chugged my G&T.

Also, one day I'll stop being NGA again, right? We don't talk about the NGA club so much anymore. Why is that? Is everybody GS but me? Or have the rest of you matured past that point? ("We do not press the point. We waive it. We look over it.")

Seriously. Big G&T, total chug. I'll go away soon. Sorry.

You're very smart, Emily. You're sexy. You're a good friend. Even more important, YOU WILL NEVER SEE THOSE PEOPLE AGAIN.

YOU WILL NEVER SEE THOSE PEOPLE AGAIN.

One week, all new people! By this time next week, they will be over and done with!

EMILY! You are smart and awesome and when you get to my side of the country I will take you out for G&Ts and have you meet pretty tattooed boys.

when you get to my side of the country I will take you out for G&Ts and have you meet pretty tattooed boys.

Yessss. Life is worth living again. Tell me, will there be tattooed boys who find math discussion oddly endearing?

Ginger is very right, Emily. WooHOo for G&Ts. And woohoo for you, too, you very smart, very funny, and very pretty person, you.

Pics of the suit, Robin? It sounds pretty.

Darling stripey kitten! Very cute Petey pics. And also? Walter! Walter is the cool dude of dogs.

Tell me, will there be tattooed boys who find math discussion oddly endearing?

Quite possibly. Even if they don't understand all of it.

Quite possibly. Even if they don't understand all of it.

Excccccccellent. (How would you pronounce that?) Vive la geek!

Emily? In the Bay Area again? But how completely foamy is that??? Emily would be the best darn hire the Oakland Unified School District ever made, that's what. Why? Because she's smart and funny and knows about Teh Math, you darn betcha she does. Plus it would be fun to take her to the bookstore.

Also: what Ginger said. Those little dummies promising young people are busy thinking mostly about about summer vacation and gettin some anyway.

And I can say: From a random sampling of dogs met by me, Walter may be the coolest dog ever.