Shit I Didn't Say:

(After I've had exactly one half hour to myself all day, eaten dinner with a toddler clinging to my leg and another one screaming her head off, and while I'm standing in the doorway getting ready to take a much needed break while a kid has one of my feet in the air trying to remove my sock) Um, I'm sorry I didn't notice or react to your witty and sweet innuendos. I'm tired. I'm distracted. I love you. Now let me go read my book in peace.

You should probably just stop reading.

I can read Alison Weir AND watch Veronica Mars at the same time!

I did something today I haven't done since 1988--I swam laps!!! I only did 11 laps, but I also floated on my stomach and kicked for three minutes solid (felt that in my rear and the backs of my thighs). I'm going back on Thursday night and will try and boost that up to 15 laps and five minutes kicking. I also made friends with the woman swimming in the next lane, and told her I'd see her on Thursday.

I'm going to try and go over in the morning and use the treadmill and weight machines before going to work. Have to work off those paczkis!

Everybody who hates giant puppets at demonstrations may want to make an exception for this satirical puppet from a German protest:

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Warning - non-erotic puppet tush.

Catherine of Aragorn be cast as a sharp-faced, dark haired Spanish woman

She's Irish - she was in The Commitments.

It's actually a heavily Irish cast - I'm assuming that's where they're filming.

Yay Kathy!

Shit I didn't say today: "Is it absolutely mandatory that everyone wait until as close to my final deadline as possible before revealing that editorial support I've been promised will be TKO'd by other projects that were supposed to be over by now? And that said deadline remain rock-solid for me while the schedules for other projects are apparently fluid?"

Shit I didn't say today:

"So, you declared a bunch of terms final without ever having shown them to an editor? Do you listen to *anything* I say to you? Or read your e-mail?"

"Pot, meet kettle. No, seriously. Stop being an ass."

11 laps is a good start, swimming is a tough workout! I'm going to try to start swimming laps on Thursday, maybe make it a once a week thing, since the community pool is supposedly open in the afternoons. I figure if I can get in the habit now, I'll be well-positioned to spend more time in the water when it gets hot.

Shit I didn't say:

AAAHHHH AHHHH FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU ARRGGGHHHHHHHHH

....it's still kind of a rough week.

Poor Jesse.

I hope it gets better.

So, what's in people's "shit I didn't say" file for the day?

You are a pompous ass. No one would care what you have to say except that you have managed to kiss your way into a position of some power, so we have to pretend to care what you think.