Love that song. It's an insta-earworm for me, but in a happy way.

Theater Major Has Too Long Borne Shakespeare Teacher's Blunt Upbraidings, Bitter Scoffs

Tep, The Sundays came up on random, not a cry for help or hairpats.

Good deal.

Note to self: Do not take Benadryl before work when you've slept badly due to a cough. It causes you to zone out on phone calls and dream of strange confrontations on desert roads while you're trying to troubleshoot computer problems.

Very sassy haircut, beth. Embrace the tousled.

JZ's been a whirlwind of productivity this morning. I should make her martinis more often.

She just took the baby and headed out to update our parking sticker.

She was pretty funny describing her trauma at Matilda's shots: "Water kept coming out of her eyes!"

Today I: write write write. Then in the late afternoon: socialize!

Tomorrow I get up early to accompany EM to her court hearing to turn her Temporary Restraining Order into a more permanent one. She was just a wreck when I talked to her yesterday. She's lost like 20 lbs in the last two months stressing from the harassment. And she's only 5'1".

Hec, is the harassment still ongoing?

Hec, is the harassment still ongoing?

Nope. He's behaved since he got the temporary restraining order. The dozens of calls a day from a blocked caller ID stopped too.

But she was very freaked that he had escalated into the violence and putting his fist through her window. She's been barricading her door at home - feeling like she's under siege. He definitely put the fear in her.

That's why I'm going. There's no legal reason for me to be there. She just doesn't want to face him alone.

I will have to restrain the urge to pinch his fucking head off. But there will be glaring.

So is he gonna be there to contest the restraining order being made permanent? Or would he not care (assuming that he really does not intend to harass her anymore)?

That's something I've never understood - if someone isn't harassing someone else and doesn't plan to have anything to do with them, why do they object to the restraining order? and why are courts so reluctant to grant them?

Oh My God. I wept pretty much from cover to cover. I was reading it out loud (kind of to The Cat Daniel, but mostly not, because really? He could care less) and there were places where I just had to stop and breathe for a bit.

It's very much weep-inducing. I love it, but man, it hurts to read.

Except for the part where Lovejoy was an antiques dealer. And now instead of "Go on, Lady Jane, you know you want to buy this sixteenth century mirror to admire your lovely face in" it's all "Fucking kill the fucking little girl now you cunting hooplehead fuck.

Yes. I had minor o.0 face when I watched Deadwood, due to Lovejoy. It meant it took a bit longer for me to deal with Al, because, like Hugh Laurie, American Sex Symbol, it broke my brain.

Really - when you put on a pair of pants and the first thought when you see yourself is "it's Hammer time!" it's time to retire them.

Isn't it? I laughed out loud when I read this, because I'm going through the same thing. I hate that about weight loss. I mean, it feels like complaining that my diamond shoes are too tight (even though I'm doing it for health reasons), but when I find myself walking up stairs and having potentially humiliating pants failure, I know that, once more, it is time to shop for clothing.

I suppose I should console myself with the fact that a: my knee doesn't hurt as often; b: I'm saving money on food; and c: in theory, I'll save on future health care costs, thus making the frequent wardrobe replacements less painful to contemplate.

That's why I'm going. There's no legal reason for me to be there. She just doesn't want to face him alone.

Bless you for going, mister.