Good morning SA! We always seem to be posting at the same time. I'm not used to Buffistas being on the same schedule as me. Very odd.

I suspect it's a morning thing... at this current company it's really convenient because I'm the only person in this area, so I can look busy and be online at the same time. We'll see how long that lasts. :)

a bit of toast and jam--

There's an online journally-type thing that covers television, and for the life of me I can't remembe the name. It covers television that's airing and that comes out on TV, and it's not really professional, more a group of people who like television a lot enough to write about it. I think it starts with an S, like srxw.org or some incomprehensible acronym that's escaping my mind. Does this ping anyone?

Happy Birthday, Polter-Cow!!!

Happy Birthday, Herah!!!

Timelies to Nilly, Jars, and SA.

SA, it seems to me that whenever I've moved, I've gone through a period like that, because nothing is where it's supposed to be. You've moved a lot in the past year or so, so it makes sense that it's hitting your where-to-put-and-find-things center in your brain. I hope you find everything, particularly the expensive stuff.

Also-- why is Audrey Hepburn dancing to "Back in Black" on my teevee. If I didn't know better, I would think that they had filmed her ROLLING OVER IN HER GRAVE...

Sophia and connie, what was this on?

Also, when I heard the news on the radio, they just said "a plane", but I assumed it was a small plane because of that small plane that hit the Empire State Building a few years before that....I figured it had happened before, and anything else didn't even occur to me. Until I turned on the TV.

I learned the news from Narrator. Online. The school had scheduled a Kindergarten Tea Party, for all the kindergarten students, parents, and younger siblings at 11:00am. I'd just finished giving the then-babies (Julia wouldn't be three for a couple of months, and Chris was one and a half) breakfast and their baths, and getting their clothes ready, so we could get there in a not-crazy-rushed sort of way. I sat down with a cup of coffee, and loaded up the message board where a bunch of ex-pat Bronzers were licking our wounds in exile, expecting to find the same silliness I'd seen (among our Brits) early-early in the morning.

I think I just need to stay away from appliances. The microwave set off the breaker (fixed that.) Then my freezer spontaneously exploded and attacked me with frozen naan. Then I made the mistake of turning on the tv at the worst possible time and I threw the remote at it after 5 sentences yelling "Banality fuckers banality!" and the batteries popped out. So I had to endure long enough to manually change the channel (to fuzz) and reprogram the remote.

Maybe I should cut the lights and use candles. Maybe my laptop will explode next!

sarameg, did they get you in the night?

Emeline in her Krav t-shirt and ready to take anyone on...

SA, it seems to me that whenever I've moved, I've gone through a period like that, because nothing is where it's supposed to be. You've moved a lot in the past year or so, so it makes sense that it's hitting your where-to-put-and-find-things center in your brain. I hope you find everything, particularly the expensive stuff.

Me too! And that's true. I think, really, that it's going to take the rest of the month for me to properly decompress from everything. Which, while frustrating, isn't that unexpected. A lot has happened in the last year.

why is Audrey Hepburn dancing to "Back in Black" on my teevee.

Oh God. I can never return to the US, where there are such clear signs of the Apocalypse. Apocalypso.

Strega, there was a very similar article in the press here yesterday that I keep meaning to post.

You know what's sad? The attack on the embassy in Damascus is making me nostalgic for the good old days, when all attacks were small-focus and mostly amateurish, as was the news coverage of them.

Happy birthday, P-C!

Sophia and connie, what was this on?

It's a commercial for skinny black pants at the Gap.

That thing about people supporting the president after 9/11 is bullshit, from my perspective. We spent days waiting for him to come up here. It was fucking Giuliani who stepped forward and who people rallied around. Here, at least. It's crazy to me how many people hated him when he was Mayor who somehow forgot all THAT.

Dear The Rest of the Country,

If you are thinking about voting for Giuliani for President, please remember: The very last thing you want to do is to give this person more power. Seriously. Trust us on this one.

Sincerely,
A Concerned New Yorker.

Great news from Down Under!

Less great news from Down Under - WTF is up with people going around killing sting rays? Do you seriously think Steve Irwin would be down with that? People=craxy.

Not job yet, unfortunately. And I'd really like someone to hire me for a decent wage so I can stop writing cover letters.

I hope that Shrift gets an excellent job very soon. But not an absolutely perfect job, because I want to laugh when she snarks on it. Just a flawed coworker or two. That’s all I ask.