I had a cat Sam that was very nice and calm and loveable, unless you were silly enough to bring cheetos into the apartment and not immediately give the entire bag to him.

Sadly, I was not the one to discover this, and I had to reimburse my cat sitter for neosporin and bandaids.

I have a question. How does one stop Buff Diving?

How does one stop Buff Diving?

Wait until you starve to death and the problem solves itself?

Network goes down.

so I am getting a series 2 TIVO for free tonight. I am gonna need help setting it up I think.

Come on guys, help distract me. I am grading, but every couple papers I need a distraction so "If you can get 30 miles per gallon, how many miles could you drive on 10 gallons? 3" doesn't completely destroy me.

I just stumbled across the finale of this "Laddettes to Ladies" show, where they take trashy English girls, send them to finishing school, culminating in an actual debutante ball. I wish I had seen the whole thing! What's nice is that even though the fancy people at the ball called them out for not being the "real" debs (basically based on their accents), they said how lovely and poised they were.

Dana, are the hives all over, or in one area? I'm just thinking about the recent leakage into your place, and wondering about mold and mildew. I know you said they applied fungicide to your carpets though, right?

Tons of fungicide. On carpet and walls. Carpet pad was replaced, carpet was steam-cleaned. We think it's pretty unlikely. I did think of it, though. I'm in that fun stage where I'm halfway convinced that I have everything from Toxic Shock Syndrome to Ebola.

I was just about to scoff that of course you don't have Ebola because you'd already be dead if you did, but the CDC is telling me that the incubation period for Ebola hemorrhagic fever is actually 2-21 days.

Have you been in contact with any monkeys?

Not that I remember. Or poison ivy. Or, really, much of the outdoors at all.

t not scratching, not scratching...