It's just that that means putting my cat on an airplane (shudder), shipping all my stuff, and condensing all the stuff I absolutely positively must have for my first week or so in a new state and a new job into a few suitcases.

Coming in way late, but as someone who just did this:

Do get kitty Valium and a soft-sided carrier. Damien was quite well-behaved, but the Valium made him not!yowl, which made the flight attendants happy and any potential cat-allergic people unaware of the feline in their midst.

Considering CA's insane vehicle standards (emmisions, tax, etc.), you're best off buying here.

Re: Shipping; you could throw yourself on the mercy of one of the space-having Bayistas - Deb offered to store my stuff when I moved here, which turned out to be unnecessary.

Re: crap that you'll need for the first few weeks; again, the Bayistas are quite generous. I still have Hec & JZ's wee TV/VCR thingy & bunches of tapes, Lee's inflatable bed, and Deb's corded drill. (We really need to arrange transfers, y'all.)

So. No worries. We take care of our own, remember.

Bathing suit has been acquired. As it turned out, both Bath & Body Works and The Body Shop were having sales, so I picked up some shower gels. (Never mind that I currently have more than I can use, as I only use them on the weekends, I wanted these)

When did Connie Chung go batshit insane: [link] ?

There is a back story on this. Connie's husband was cheating with one of the interns on this crappy show that failed. So I guess that song was her "fuck off and die world" moment. Hey I worked with a woman whose response to news that her husband was cheating involved firing an actual gun in his general direction. (She didn't hurt him; claimed she never intended to to -just wanted to make him dance.)

Huh. My husband cheated on me with an intern, my response would not involve warbling and writhing on a piano.

More like fireants, restraints and honey on the genitalia.

I was attempting to track down someone I went to school with in Indiana in 1989-90. Unfortunately, he has so generic a name I might as well have been searching for John Smith. I did get a giggle out of the demographic breakdown of that high school, though:

# of White (non-Hispanic) Students: 781 Student(s)
# of Black Students: 9 Student(s)
# of Asian Students: 2 Student(s)
# of Hispanic Students: 2 Student(s)
# of Native American Students: 1 Student(s)

I'd forgotten just how different that area looked, in so many ways.

Insent Emily

I've been trying to find a friend of mine named Mary Johnson. Not making much progress.

Emily, I used to ship stuff on Greyhound for real cheap, but that was years ago. And you have to pick the stuff up at the station.

The thing I was gonna make for dinner is supposed to marinate for 2-3 days. I haven't bought the ingredients, yet. Back to the meal planner...

Interesting. I looked up my HS - currently it has:

Total 1,474
Gender Male 36%
Female 64%
Ethnicity Asian 6%
Native American 1%
African American 60%
Hispanic 5%
White 25%

Special Education 11%
English Language Learners 1%
Free/Reduced Lunch 37%

I don't remember there being such a gender disparity when I was there, but otherwise that seems about the same.

It is 99 degrees outside. I do NOT care how expensive it is, I have the air conditioner on, and on it will stay until the wackiness stops.

So I read that Dianne Farr marries link, and it seems the young lady has written a book. It's called The Girl Code : The Secret Language of Single Women (On Dating, Sex, Shopping, and Honor Among Girlfriends). I decided to take a look inside on Amazon, with my normal nose in the air attitude towards Girl Power! books, but have stopped dead on this:

THE BOY: If you change suitors so fast that they rarely achieve name status, a man must be around for at least six weeks before you make your friends bother to learn his first name. Until such time, he should be referred to by this generic title.

For Women Who
Need to explain to numerous people what's going on in their love life,
Are between theages of sixteen and twenty-one or over twenty-seven,
Have overbearing mothers and aunts in their life,
Have called off more than one engagement.

Close enough, I have to admit.

I wonder...are they going to remember to call me to come in and spar, or should I get naplike or do any of my chores?