shrift, I had no idea that practically every girl at my grammar and middle schools was your temp receptionist!

My condolences.

Tell her you've got your entire divorce planned right down to the caliber?

That doesn't really sound like a plan for divorce, more like proactive widowhood.

Someone on my LJ friendslist has an icon of a cupcake. Having scrolled past it, oh, twenty or so times, I would knock over a herd of nuns to get a cupcake at this point.

Till death do you part. You die, you part. (/God's Detective) who also said, by the way, that the Jesuits said one's sexual orientation isn't secure till one is twenty-six. I'd be *so* tempted to share with receptionist girl. Maybe that's why I don't have a day job.

Dana, I'd pay good money to watch you knock over a herd of nuns.

shrift, I had no idea that practically every girl at my grammar and middle schools was your temp receptionist!

I was always about adventures and computers and science, and most of the other girls thought I was weird.

Well Lord knows I can go to Catholic mass and still recite just about all the responses/movements without even having to think about them, so not that far off.

Yeah, I can go through Mass on autopilot, too. I still reflexively cross myself before and after saying grace at my friend's house, even though they're Lutherans and Dave kids me every time I do with "You Papist!"

Ooh. I just discovered that the woman who wrote "The Physics of the Buffyverse" and who does the Cocktail Party Physics blog is gonna be in Chicago tonight, doing a reading at Women and Children First (a feminist bookstore). Hmmm - it's within walking distance of my apartment....

A reading of The Physics of Buffyverse ?

Yes. I guess she's on a book tour now for it.

In her new book she demonstrates how Joss Whedon and other writers of the show have drawn on specific concepts in quantum mechanics, relativity, and string theory to develop innovative plots for episodes. There are teleporting demons, temporal folds, time loops, and dimensional portals similar in concept to the hypothetical wormholes proposed by real-world physicists. In short, the Buffyverse offers a unique lens through which to view the precepts of science with fresh eyes. Science nerds and Buffy fans, unite!

I dunno - the science-y parts of Buffy and Angel were not really why I watched the show....

So it looks like pouring rain will be almost perfectly timed with my departure.

And the umbrella's at home on the couch.