Any talk of waffles throws me back to some song that Bert (of Ernie and fame) sang on a video my niece used to listen to about the W and what life would be like without it. It had the line, "a fine word like waffle would turn out just 'affle."

It's not any trouble
You know it's a double-you
When you say, "Wuh wuh wuh wuh."

I told her stuff! I recommended the Exploratorium, but she's scared of getting lost. We're having dinner tonight. Woo, meeting Buffistas!

So I can't be helpful? Harumph.

In conclusion, my boss really likes The Black Donnellys.

Me, too. I think the last episode on the slate is the one airing 4/16. Supposedly, it's not "officially" canceled yet, but so much stuff never gets officially canceled. It just poofs away.

They're going to put some awful Real Wedding Crashers type reality show in its place, which you know probably costs 1/4 of the price of TBD to make, and will get 8 times the ratings. Bye bye TBD.

Too bad for your boss, because it's being cancelled.

Too bad for ME, too. It's not official, though, right? They're just pulling it for a while, and they could totally bring it back and let us see how the story plays out, RIGHT?

So I can't be helpful? Harumph.

That is correct. Only I can be helpful. You can be smart instead.

Brrr. It's about 35 degrees here. It's my SPRING BREAK, dammit! Of course, NEXT week is all 60's and 70's. You know. When I'm back in SCHOOL.

Grr.

I have already had 2 cups o' coffee. I want more. Is this a bad idea?

One more day of work and then bank holiday! surely I can do that.

Kristin, I might get the name of your financial adviser when I finally, you know, have a real job. I sure as hell can't do this stuff by myself.

You know, I love that the sun is shining in manchester, and that we get light until after 7Pm, and all the other attendant glories of spring. But man, do I need a better curtain, because this sun shit hits me in the eyes like a one-two punch every freaking morning.

35? It's 26 here!

Last week -- I swear it was in the 70s/80s.

While I"m in LA, it was supposedly like, 80 in DC. When I get back, it will be 40. HOW is that fair?

I am LIVID. I have been asking this woman for a report on my students for several days. She is in admissions, which is where the applications go. If they don't tell me who the students are, I don't know that they've applied. I finally got the woman on the phone today, and she told me that she has been told by her boss (who is pissed that my job got taken from under her and elevated to the same level) that she isn't supposed to provide reports to me anymore. I am furious. I am giving myself an hour to calm down before I write an email. She's out of town, or I'd talk to her in person. Actually, it's good that she's out of town, so I can CC the guy who is both of our bosses.

I apologize. It's apparently our fault (as well as a couple of other states). Storms here caused chilly temps in the NE. We are sorry for the inconvenience.

Hey San Francisco people, tiggy is in your city with family (and one family member is on a business trip, I think). She's looking for kid-friendly tourist-y places to visit Any suggestions? She's at the Hyatt Regency and says the area seems very business oriented.

She's down at the end of Market Street near the Embarcadero. So she's very close to the Ferry Building which has kid friendly gelato, hamburgers and chocolate.

She could take the F-Market vintage street car line down Market Street until she's at 4th. That's about where the Virgin Megastore is. Cody's Books is around the corner and it's a huge bookstore with an excellent children's section. If she wants to continue into the Tourista Zone she could then walk over to Union Square which has a Disney Store, and also a Tin Tin store.

But I'd recommend walking down 4th Street from Market to the Metreon. Unfortunately the Metreon doesn't have the Where the Wild Things are play space anymore. But it does have the cool toy store Things From Another World (second floor) and a huge cool video game arcade. The Metreon is part of Yerba Buena Gardens which is a large arts space with lots of kids stuff. There's a kids museum (Zeum - I don't recommend it though), which is right next to a big out door play area, an indoor skating rink and a bowling alley.

If she went underground to the Muni and took the N-Judah train outbound she could get out to Golden Gate Park. Lots of fun stuff to do there. I'd recommend renting a paddle boat and going around Stowe Lake. Make sure to get popcorn and drinks (coffee, Icees) and then just enjoy paddling about in the lake. Very nice.

Also from downtown, you're fairly close to the Giants stadium which has a pretty big kids play area that's open even when they're not playing games. (If they're playing a game, however, you'd have to buy a ticket to get in. Still! So fun to see a game there.)