I totally made my phone call! Which basically included setting up another call, but still.

My problem, time-of-year-wise, is that there is an absolute assload of stuff due early September, but no one around to deal with it in late August. I should just take off so I'm not sitting here waiting. I could sit on the beach and wait!

And I'm having a hard time disentangling myself from a very stupid argument with a very stupid person in an LJ community.

Oh, I know this sensation. Middle of last week, I got called a Grand Inquisitor! By somebody I don't really know, but who takes me and mine as symbols of her oppression.

And then I had to spend 20 minutes on my hands and knees searching for the eyes that had rolled out of my head.

Nutty's part of a lynch mob, Nutty's part of a lynch mob...

The Chicago Tribune (registration required) has a fun article on how long to keep food in your kitchen. It's a case study of one woman's pantry, fridge and freezer and the expiration dates therein, and what should be tossed and what's still good.

Looks like I'll have to go through my salad dressings and check the dates...

do we have a trib login?

Middle of last week, I got called a Grand Inquisitor!

Does that come with a cool costume? Because that would rock.

I have to admit, I'm reduced to running around and poking this person. Reasoned discussion just wasn't working. Right now I'm trying to get her to hug me so we can make up. All this dissent is very stressful.

I could read that article without being registered, FYI.

I got called a Grand Inquisitor!

Did you bring out the comfy chair?

I was thinking about posting this in Mal's blog, but the only people who would get it are here: We took him to Early Learning, and he dove right into the baby-sized moon bounce plastic ball thing and refused to come out. The DH said, "He's as happy as a dog in an elk carcass."

I could read that article without being registered, FYI.

Lucky girl.

I can't. And bugmenot is blocked from here.

My LJ adversary doesn't seem to be the touchy feely kind. I just can't get the hug I need for closure.

Nutty's part of a lynch mob, Nutty's part of a lynch mob...

The best part was, we don't have any reason for our paths to cross, so I didn't even know I was such a villain till 4 days after she so bravely said so (in her LJ, from which I am banned).

Really, I mean, how does she expect me to find a suitable black hat, on such short notice??

(I think if it were a conflict with somebody whose opinion I valued, or somebody I expected to encounter often, it would be much more stressful.)