jobs with beautiful campuses don't exist in NYC.

I worked at Columbia! Bitch of a commute but it was pretty.

Apropos of nothing... Allyson, I feel a rant coming on. You up for a call (if I can remember where I left the phone)?

I found the phone...

Allyson hates me.

Sigh.

Boo Creepy Foot Doctor Funny.

Yay baseball! That was fun.

Working at a college is a sweet gig (well not for me because I am a lowly consultant) but for the actual college employees. Lots of vacay. My college gives manager types laptops, so work from home possibilities. Good benefits. Reduced tuition. Pretty secure (although we went through a big budget crisis about two years ago). But, you have to put up with crazy professors (no offense to any college professors we have on the board who are obviously of the non-crazy variety). Sadly, most of the professors in my program are some of the least capable people on the planet. It's like they used up the last teeny little bit of brain power they had left getting their PhDs, and now they are just full up of crazy and ridiculous with a side of pompous and entitled thrown in for good measure.

Of course this harsh judgement may be a result of the fact that I had to go all the way up to campus to help one of our faculty members run a meeting for five people. That I had been helping him plan. For the last two weeks.

Also, Creepy Foot Doctor is hilarious.

Is Cecil Adams a Buffista? The Straight Dope

Assume a six-foot, 170-pound male vampire has a base metabolic rate of 1,800 calories per day. He sleeps two-thirds of said day but must adopt an active lifestyle by night in pursuit of hemoglobin, so add 2,400 calories. The energy required to turn into a bat, wolf, mist, etc, hasn't been clinically established but, judging from sparing use of the trick in Bram Stoker's book, must be substantial — say, 2,000 calories nightly, for a total daily requirement of 6,200 calories. A unit of blood (450 milliliters) contains about 600 calories; individuals typically hold 4,000 to 6,000 milliliters, giving us a potential of 5,333 to 8,000 calories per victim.

Hee. Take away the answer and it's like the coolest word problem ever.

Wow. A very unScarlett picture of Miss Johansson.

I have decided to rework the shoulder details of the costume, and feel much better about them now. My poor fingers are all scritched up from the wire and mesh work, though.

Oh my goodness. Maxim Scarlett. Well, I guess she's gotta live up to that whole sexiest woman alive thing.

And I have been imagining what this Aunie Entity costume will look like once it's all done. Are you going all out with the Tina wig as well?