Power outage on train, have to walk mile to work on hottest day of the year. Blech.

Goodness-- katefate was here....

In other news, when did "middle class" start meaning that you were worth $1 million dollars.

I mean, I knew I was fooling myself that I was middle class making 28,000 a year working two jobs, but a million! I at least thought I could put in a claim to "lower middle class"

From a silly article about the curse of The Devil Wears Prada referenced here:

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Higher gasoline prices and interest rates -- which raise the cost of credit-card debt -- may be deterring consumers across all income groups, analysts said, but it's the middle class and the "nearly rich" -- those worth between $1 million and $5 million -- who are cutting back on luxury goods and services. "Instead of buying the $25,000 watch, they're buying the $10,000 watch," said Milton Pedraza, CEO of The Luxury Institute.

Power outage on train, have to walk mile to work on hottest day of the year. Blech.

Oh, man. That is legion in its suckiness.

Good morning!

Allow me to highly recommend the cold shower for hot weather insomnia. I did not do hot water at all. The cold water was such a shock when I doused one side of my body, I actually shivered. So I experimented with the other side and sidled into the stream of water from the foot up. This was less of a shock and I became inured to the cold quickly. After the shower I was all comfortable like, and lay on the couch for just a few minutes and fell asleep. Finally dragged myself upstairs and got up 4 hours later.

Adderal and a double shot of espresso have me surprisingly functional.

ita, I hope you get to feeling at least right-ish.

At least there's a big picture of Colin in my Metro this morning

Hee! I saw him in an ad the other day and thought, "Do I know that guy?"

I'm off for haircut and therapy, excuse the redundancy.

eta: wave to Sophia!

In other news, when did "middle class" start meaning that you were worth $1 million dollars.

Well, the "worth" includes real estate and retirement funds and stuff, but yeah -- that seems like upper middle class at the very least.

Also, Ack, bon bon! Someone here just dragged in with similar issues.

Hi katefate!

I think it is just a symptom of how everyone in America, except the very rich and the destitute THINK that they are middle class. No one wants to go around saying they are lower class, and I think, at least in the working world, no one wants to really be upper class, either...

Have we seen this? godchecker.com

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This has links to three different cephalopd Gods: [link]

Deity of the Day: [link]

edit 'cuz I can spell 'deity.'

The Crazy Woman Who I Suspect of Being an AI sent me an e-mail. She doesn't understand why I'm working on a particular document. Didn't her last e-mail tell me to stop working on that document? She encloses a copy of her e-mail to help me.

It doesn't say that AT ALL.

I'm just waiting to see if we get brownouts or rolling blackouts. There's a chance for thunderstorms this afternoon, which ups the possibility.

W's behavior at the G8 summit is really starting to worry me.