flea, this is why I'm afraid to have a baby.

It's a little more complicated with a toddler in the mix. With two, one of them manages to wake up when the other one's asleep.

I can't imagine adding loud, idiot frat boys to the situation.

It's a little more complicated with a toddler in the mix. With two, one of them manages to wake up when the other one's asleep.

I can't imagine adding loud, idiot frat boys to the situation.

But I'm saying, just the one baby terrifies me, sleep-dep-wise, not to even mention all that craziness!

But I'm saying, just the one baby terrifies me, sleep-dep-wise, not to even mention all that craziness!

Yeah--it's hard but you learn to reset your scale of exhaustion.

Awesome octopus chandelier: [link]

The colors on the tentacles are so pretty. Only about $10,000.

An entire department on my floor is in a meeting, and predictably, it's the department with the most customer foot traffic, and even more predictably, everyone's pissy that Nobody Told Them that entire department would be in a meeting for a whole hour today.

I want to make the elevator lobby run red and sticky with their blood.

Heyyy. Oasis Hong Kong, a no-frills, low-cost airline, has applied to make Chicago one of its departure points: [link]

Other people thought the same thing about the muzak in The Office last night: >[link] Why does this make me so ridiculously happy? Thank you, bon bon.

tiggy, lisah, I flailed all over my lj (and Vonnie's), too.

About The Office...

Sepinwall mentions this, too, you're right. What is Karen going to do? How can she stay there? Does she have a lease? Can she get another job? Will she be able to make herself leave? Ooof. And yet YAY!

Angela had me crying too, by the way. And is it just me, or was her pony tail way loser than usual?

tiggy, I would normally be upset about my boss leaving me in an office with that loon, but I don't imagine I'd feel like Michael had all that much control, and Jim is technically management now, I think. It didn't ping me 'til you mentioned it though, so I hadn't thought about it.

There are some really good scenes in the Producer's cut, for people who didn't see it. I feel badly for fans outside of the U.S., because NBC won't let them watch it. I wondered if there was an anonymizer site they could use, so NBC would think they were coming to the website from inside the U.S.

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I forgot to go to sleep last night, until about 1:30, for the second or third night in a row.

Hate it when I do that.

I have a question. Say someone's husband was an idiot and included the wife as a dependant. When the wife went to file, would it be better to put just "Married" or "Married but withold at higher single rate"?

ETA: I'm talking taxes for those of you who haven't already invaded my brain.

So there's a growing movement of people who believe that unpasteurized milk is much better for you than the pasteurized stuff: [link]

Huh. I grew up drinking raw milk and I turned out just -- OK, that's not really a good argument.

The unpasteurized milk adherents also believe that for raw milk to be safe it must come from cows that only eat grass. Corn-fed cow milk is bad.

Uh-oh....

eta:

Researchers at the University of London analyzed the diet of 4,700 children in Shropshire and found that those who lived on farms and drank raw milk had significantly fewer symptoms of asthma, hay fever and eczema. Children who drank raw milk were 40 percent less likely to develop eczema and 10 percent less likely to get hay fever than their non-raw-milk-drinking peers. Blood samples showed that they had 60 percent lower levels of immunoglobulin E, an antibody released by the immune system when it's confronted by allergens. (IgE, in turn, causes cells to release histamines, which is what causes an allergic reaction.) In their conclusion, study authors Michael Perkins and David Strachan surmised that the lactobacilli found in raw milk protect against eczema. They also stated, "Unpasteurized milk is known to be rich in a variety of gram-negative species and their lipopolysaccharides, and it is plausible that a persistent exposure to a diverse milieu of bacteria from an early age is likely to have an effect on the developing immune system."