Ah-ha, Connie, but you forgot my wily Irish wiles! I'll be the super night owl that isn't night-owly at all but fresh and awake and (sadly) at work.

Why will no one pay me to take a year-long holiday?

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SA, msn.com is going to stream it. You can probably watch it.

I don't know the correct show business terms, but they picked up the show for 22, but have some sort of option to kill it at 13. I think that all has more to do with contractual/payment stuff than anything else, because they can, of course, cancel it after any number of episodes, and they will, if it doesn't retain some of Gilmore Girls lead-in.

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If I find out how to get someone to do that for me, I'll let you know. Previously, the only way I've found to do it was to get laid off from a job I loved with all my heart, so it was something of a mixed blessing. And it wasn't for an actual year, more like eight months of unemployment pay & severance c a r e f u l l y stretched out.

Think of it as character-building?

Today my little work group has been called to an "introductory meeting" with the brand-new CIO, so I suppose I should dress nice and show up for it.

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Huh, it's paired with GG? That should do it some good.

It's one here, and I'm starving; I always get stuck with the later lunch break, from one thirty to two thirty. Today's menu: broke-ass former college student tuna on wheat. Yum.

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imagine it's your mother's corpse.

How did they legally obtain the corpse? I can't imagine anyone letting them have it, least of all me.

Honestly, though, I don't seem to be as attached to the shell as your question implies you expect. Cremation or cheap box with little embalming--those'll work for me. The sucking vacuum left in my life by people's deaths is the big deal. Their corpse is not.

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I haven't watched Eureka. Is it too late to jump into it, now?

I see no one got back to you on this, and I'd say not too late. The premise is pretty straight forward and it has not been, too date, terribly arc-y. There are a few things that might not be clear from a random episode, but it's definitely not hard to start in on (especially since Sci-Fi has been airing them out of order anyway).

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Speaking of Eureka, in Canada, it's premiering on Space this Sunday: [link]

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How did they legally obtain the corpse? I can't imagine anyone letting them have it, least of all me.

You said you had no issue with people eating or having sex with dead people. You didn't say you had no issue with people eating or having sex with corpses to which they somehow have some legal claim. Any legal claim on a corpse is limited by laws on proper handling, other than those outlawing necrophilia and cannibalism, anyhow.

The sucking vacuum left in my life by people's deaths is the big deal. Their corpse is not.

Of course the loss is far more important than the final disposition of their shell. But there's no reason for this to suddenly become an either/or proposition.

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I see no one got back to you on this, and I'd say not too late. The premise is pretty straight forward and it has not been, too date, terribly arc-y. There are a few things that might not be clear from a random episode, but it's definitely not hard to start in on (especially since Sci-Fi has been airing them out of order anyway).

Thanks, Frank.

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Soon, everyone will know about you and lori and the gun!

I still want to dive under the table. Or behind a couch.

I've been going to sleep earlier. And waking up tireder. Not right. I love sleep. Why is it not loving me back?

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