I know it's not right, but I do it anyway.

I'm Lee and Jilli on this. Sometimes I do reword to avoid using it.

Ivana Milicevic (she played Sam Finn in BtVS s.6 ep.15 "As You Were") is the guest star for the A story on The Unit.

Had to laugh at Bob's sour comment about helicopters. I've heard several variations on that theme from a number of pilots and mechanics. Wonderful, fascinating, scary, horrible machines.

I really didn't expect them to go for the happy ending like that.

If you want to be hardcore, add a tablespoon of hon-dashi per cup water before stirring in the miso paste. (It vastly improves the taste.)

GC! A raise and a layoff in the same day...oh, that is bitter salve indeed. I wish her the best in her search.

Thanks, ita. Back at you with the search part.

ION, has the new Weird Al song/video been posted here yet? I know, I know, "Weird Al?" I thought that, too, and then I watched the video (a take-off on Ridin' Dirty called, wait for it, White and Nerdy). It's effin hysterical. Be on the lookout for the brief Seth Green appearance: [link]

Some lyrics:
I been browsin', inspectin' X-Men comics
You know I collect 'em
The pens in my pocket, I must protect them
My ergonomic keyboard never leaves me bored
Shoppin' online for deals on some writable media
I edit Wikipedia
I memorized Holy Grail really well
I can recite it right now and have you R-O-T-F-L-O-L

I'll always love the old farmhouse and its stories.

My mom's family's farm was sold a few years ago, and my uncle finally moved out last spring. A couple of weeks ago, when Mom was out visiting, we went driving with another one of her sibs to check out the old homestead, and found everything torn down and the new subdivision is already going up. Mom and her sister had to spend a few minutes figuring out where the house had been based on the one tree that they recognized that was still standing.

A huge shock to me, even though I knew that everything was going to be gone. Gramma never redecorated that house, and her eldest son who lived there after she died had let it go quite a bit, but I have such fond memories of holidays and summer weekends spent exploring the attic and climbing the apple trees, washing the green apples in the wellwater and getting sick from too many of them, playing b-ball in the hayloft amidst the parish school's desks that were stored up there after the school remodeled.

I did memorize the Prologue in Middle English for one of my undergrad classes, though, which is useful only so far as it baffles high school students.

I love Chaucer!! Memorizing the opening section of the Prologue (up to "A knight there was, and that a worthy man, that fro the time he first began to riden out he loved chivalrie, trouth and honour, fredom and courtesie" and that's all I know) was very helpful for me to handle the rest of the semester's Middle English. It was also fun for when some local radio hosts had a segment about "what stupid thing do you still remember from school?"

For some reason, Gawain and the Green Knight was totally incomprehensible to me. I gave up and got a modern translation.

G&tGK is written in a northern non-London dialect, so it's pretty incomprehensible to just about everyone who's not an expert in that dialect. My book has the dialect on the even pages and the modern translation on the odd ones.

I was seriously considering auditing a class on Old English in my senior year, but my advisor talked me out of it, which was probably a good idea for my GPA, but I still wish I had taken it.

Be on the lookout for the brief Seth Green appearance

Was that also Donny Osmond as the backup dancer?

Heh, watching Colbert this morning while I ate breakfast, and The Word was on MPREG. Seriously. Nearly spit out my Kashi.

GC, sorry about the layoff. Good luck to her in her job search.

I'm up too early.

GC, sorry to hear -- that so sucks. I hope, though, that the promotion means that she qualifies for a better severance package/more unemployment benefits (in MA at least, your amount is predicated on your previous salary)/better job title & description on the new resume.

My limited experience with outsourcing to India says that it's so not worth the money you save. But the company that does it has to learn via eventually (and expensively) rebuilding an IT department. Feh.