And if you already had something planned when the new job came along, usually you make that part of the negotiation in taking on the new position. IME, anyway.

And if you already had something planned when the new job came along, usually you make that part of the negotiation in taking on the new position. IME, anyway.

Oh, of course. And she wasn't even actively looking when she got recruited for this job, so no reason not to plan a vacation with her family. But still. It's easy enough to go back to the CEO for approvals and stuff, but she's not that easy to get to, either.

Starting a new job without a break between the job that drained your soul can burn you out bad. It's a fresh start, recuperation.

I couldn't agree with this anymore if I tried. I took a week between last job and this job and it was the best thing I could for myself.

Oh, you totally need a break between jobs! I took two weeks before I started here, and I had already been out of school for a week. That was awesome.

Supposedly, Osama bin Laden lusted after Whitney Houston and wanted to kill her husband Bobby Brown so he could marry her. Or so says a woman who claims to have been bin Laden's sex slave.

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Boof says bin Laden couldn't stop talking about his favorite singer and had lofty plans for her. "He said he wanted to give [her] a mansion that he owned in a suburb of Khartoum. He explained to me that to possess Whitney, he would be willing to break his color rule and make her one of his wives."

But bin Laden's murderous side also emerged in his fantasies about the pop superstar. "[He would say] how beautiful she is," Boof claims, "what a nice smile she has, how truly Islamic she is but is just brainwashed by American culture and by her husband - Bobby Brown, whom Osama talked about having killed, as if it were normal to have womens' husbands killed.

From today's press conference with W:

George W. Bush was asked at this morning's press conference whether he'll support Republican candidate Alan Schlesinger in his race against Joe Lieberman. "I'm gonna stay out of Connecticut," Bush said. When a reporter shouted out, "You were born there," the president said: "Shh!"

I think I just had the most ridiculous work dispute in the history of forever. It was about whether or not to use blue envelopes for intramural mail. I and my boss say yes, accountant says you only use them for money. I think we almost came to blows. I normally wouldn't fight about it, and just go ahead and do it, since boss and I are pretty sure we are right ( since she has worked here 33 years and I 6, and the accountant 4), but the accountant has to order them!

I think someone (maybe me) posted a link to Chaucer's blog before. Anyway, here's his review of Serpentes on a Shippe

Serpentes on a Shippe! (spoylerez)

Al of Londoun ys aflame wyth newes of the grete entertaynment of 'Serpentes on a Shippe,' the which ys perfourmed ech daye by the menne of the gild of beekeeperes (and thus ys ycleped a 'b-movie'). Ich haue just nowe retourned from a trippe to see yt wyth Litel Lowys and Tommy Vske. Whan ich was ther, Tommy founde for me a copye of the romaunce in fyve chapteres on whiche the performaunce ys based, and Ich shal pooste yt heere for yower redyge. (This writer hath a verye good style - ich am reallye jealous. Oon daye, peraventure, ich shalle write sum thyng of Arthur; and yet, the matir of Troye hath alwey ben easier for me.)

Spoyler alert: If ye haue nat yet sene the performaunce of 'Serpentes on a Shippe,' rede nat of the romaunce, for it doth telle of the manye suprises and straunge eventes that happen in the course of the storye, and thus it mayhap shall lessen yower enjoiement of the performaunce yt self.

THE NOBLE TALE OF SIR NEVILLE DE FLYNN & THE SERPENTES ON THE VESSEL

Hit befelle uppon a day that SIR SEAN de JEHANNE, who was a yonge knight and a gentil, dide wander as adventures wolde gyde hym nere to the fayre citee of Honolulle. He lepede on his hors from manye an heigh hille yn slowe mocioun yn the maner of a goode knighte and a valyaunte. And whan it was nyghe none, Sir Sean cam to a grete bridge that was made of oold by the Romayns, and from that bridge did hange doun-ward an eremyte whos visage was ful hewn and bledde and al his clothes and the place aboute weren bloode red. And Sir Sean askede hym what he did ther and wherefor he was hanged and who had so grievousli him woundede; ‘Fle from this place, Sir Knight,’ he seyde, ‘For the man cometh who did thes woundes to me and he is a grete kynge but a felon and a traytour and hys name is KYNGE EDICHIM and he hath doon this to me by cause ich haue stood ayeinst hys grete outrages and felonies.’

from Geoffrey Chaucer Hath a Blog

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...And thogh he scapede from hem, thei sawe wher he rode and knew of his lodging. Therwithal Kyng Edichim sente thre of his knightes to Sir Seanes lodging for to slayen hym for he had sene hys foule deede. And thus cam aftir vespers Sir Stuntman Number Oon and Sir Stuntman Number Two, son of Expendable Extra who had done manye deedes in the dayes of Uther Pendragon, and wyth hem Sir Stuntman Number Thre...

George W. Bush was asked at this morning's press conference whether he'll support Republican candidate Alan Schlesinger in his race against Joe Lieberman. "I'm gonna stay out of Connecticut,"

I kinda feel sorry for Alan Schlesinger. You'd think that Lieberman was the Republican candidate for all the Republican support Schlesinger is getting.

I need some sort of project to keep my mind busy until I get notes from my editor. My mind is racing and overheating. So annoying.