Charlie Trotter's. Wow.

Just tell 'em that if they make you feel bad, you're NEVER COMING BACK.

That's what got me into the situation in the first place. Well, not really, but close. I had a good dentist last time, but before that was bad and denial set in. Needless to say, I'm ashamed of a) the condition of my mouth and b) that I avoided a dentist as long as I have. I'm not telling how long. It's shameful and ridic. There's really no excuse. Which adds to the shame cycle.It's totally on me and my choices. And issues. I don't like authority figures, even to my detriment.

God, msbelle, I really need to come up. I'm so lame. Mom is begging me to visit and all I want to do is cry. I think I've developed an inertia to travel FOR NO GOOD REASON. But I want to.

Hope mac takes all that is coming with aplomb and your life gets easier.

Stupid geography.

desultory

deh-SUL-try

BUNNY, with a rich liver sauce.

I definitely approve. Meals like that don't happen very often, but it's important to take the opportunity when it does happen. Good on you for also getting the tour and all of the fixins.

Oh, I completely understand, sarameg. I've gone for at least four or five years without seeing a dentist in the past, and every month I avoided made me feel that much more guilty about it. Shame spiral, indeed. And it's not like I've been to one in the last year. Things need doing that I just don't want to deal with, and that's just not bright of me.

JenP, exactly.

Ok, and now I'm gonna cry, I think. I gave T (neighbor across the way who I tutored last summer for her play camp) a gift card as they will probably be moving soon/ end of school year. She just came over to show me what all she bought with it. Lotsa pink shirts, and pink is so her color! God, I loveher. And I talked to her dad and got to tell him how much him sharing his daughter with me meant.

Seriously, goo.

Gah. Somebody please tell me how I'm supposed to respond to an RFP question requiring us to identify all of our offices (there are 160-some), number of specialists in a particular function, and a couple of other details when they have explicitly limited our responses to a maximum of 100 words per question? For fuck's sake.

Somebody please tell me how I'm supposed to respond to an RFP question requiring us to identify all of our offices (there are 160-some), number of specialists in a particular function, and a couple of other details when they have explicitly limited our responses to a maximum of 100 words per question?

Write out the answer, taking as many words required. Save the answer as a text file. Compress the file with Zip. Convert the Zip binary file into hexadecimal. Copy and paste the hex as your answer.

Well, it's either that or make up a whole new language of German-style portmanteaus. Budapest survived being smushed, right? So I'm sure Chicaginnati-Philabaltimore will too.

half a pound in Germany is 500g

That's half a kilgram, which is 2.2 pounds. Half a pound is about 225 g.

I saw Julia Louis Dreyfus being interviewed about the billionaire heiress thing, and she said that it was not true, and that forbes was removing her from that list they put her on. I don't know if she was lying, or if she's be disinherited or something.

Annoyance of the evening: I bought gas, paying at the pump with a debit card. The pump only let me put in $50 of gas. (When the pump got close to $50, it slowed down like pumps do when you prepay and the pump approaches the prepay amount.)