RUDE

BWAH!

I think we should start a fund to pay MM to post all day. Cuz funny.

Argh. I just realized that I'm once again going to have to work through the whole weekend. I'm giving a seminar talk on Monday, and there's a huge stack of papers I have to grade, and there's just no way I can get it all done tomorrow, or even tomorrow and Sunday.

I will be SO glad for Thanksgiving break.

Hil, in the misery-loves-company department, I'm right there with you. Not only will I have to work tonight, all day tomorrow, and all weekend, but I'm pretty sure I'll be finishing up Monday and Tuesday, too. Feh.

in the misery-loves-company department, I'm right there with you.

Waves tiredly

Yep. I'll be here till at least midnight tonight.

If I had your phone number, I'd have my brother call you. He's really good about birthday calls, and also sweet and good-looking and newly single.

Hey! Wasn't I supposed to get first pimping here?

....see, I think we should jello wrestle for first crack at JZ's brother. Or, no, I think y'all should jello wrestle, and I should sneak off with him while nobody's looking and ply him with Thai food and mojitos. Yes. Sounds like a plan.

Meanwhile - dude. ((Aimee's boobs))

...whaddayamean we're not supposed to use the punctuation for gropage? Pah!

Hmm. Should I nip across the road and get a couple of spring rolls for breakfast, and some freshly sliced pineapple with a baggy of salt/sugar/chilli mix?

I think I should. That sounds like the breakfast of champions to me. Yeah.

......there's a reason why my healthy living plan didn't work out, isn't there? However, in the spirit of reducing my wobbly bits to more manageable proportions, I have set myself a new target. Literally. We've got a new display in the classroom with a dart board thingy in the middle and lots of dart shapes with the kids' names on the barrels of them and a target ('to use capital letters and full stops properly' is a favourite) written on the fletching bits. I have 2 targets for me. One is 'To go to the gym 10 times' (because 'to lose .... lbs' seemed too much like setting the kids a bad example wrt body issues - plus this is one where I stand a chance of being able to move my dart towards the middle of the board reasonably quicklyish) and the other is 'to finish the first 40,000 words of my book', as I'm still hovering around 26k.

Hmm. We'll see how that goes, eh? Also? Good morning!

Having to work on weekends is just wrong.

I work every other weekend. but then my work stays at work, so it isn't a big deal.

my face pain is commin gback. time for more drugs.

I think dinner should just appear.

JZ's brother is an extremely good guy and a catch. Sly wit, easygoing. Likes the outdoorsy stuff. Very wanting the children. He calls his Mom for Matilda reports: "Is she still cute?!"

I wish I had a tenth of what you've got.

Aimee's hot and all, but don't sell yourself short. As pretty as you are in pictures, the live-in-person Maria just radiates the sexycool. (nsm the crazy)

Maria, have you met you? My main memory from reading about more recent f2fs (including the one which was your first) is seeing pictures of you and of Raq, and thinking how pretty you both are, and seeing everyone posting about the gorgeousness of you both.

Yep. The DC F2F for me was primarily about meeting Raq and Maria for the first time and getting to see Holli and Lizard. Also JohnSweden.

Juliana! I'd recommend Fay's stylist, Megan, who I could guarantee would give you an awesome haircut that you'd love...but she's also in the $60 range. Don't worry - we'll track something down for you.

Yep. The DC F2F for me was primarily about meeting Raq and Maria for the first time...

t is chopped liver