Well, there's a mixed blessing. "You can go home now! Figure out how!" Be careful, sumi.
Working from home is so far unsuccessful. The good news about working from home on a Friday is that there's always tomorrow.
Who among us can ignore the allure of really funny math puns?
Willow ,'Empty Places'
Natter 53: We could just avoid making tortured puns
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Jesse - Aug 24, 2007 6:23:17 am PDT #6566 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Ginger - Aug 24, 2007 6:23:55 am PDT #6567 of 10001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Yes, be careful! I hope there's an easy, safe way home. As much as I complain about the drought, it's only lethal if you're a plant or wild animal.
Sue - Aug 24, 2007 6:24:47 am PDT #6568 of 10001
hip deep in pie
Take care sumi.
My minion just kicked up a stink about answering the phones at lunch. I understand her position, (she's the only professional level person who regularly gets asked to sub on phone duty) but at the same time, I am @@. Of all the things that suck about where we work, getting asked to answer the phones once in a while is so not worth the grief.
Toddson - Aug 24, 2007 6:25:06 am PDT #6569 of 10001
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Good luck on getting home, sumi!
We'd been having a drought, but we got several days of rain which may have alleviated it. I hope.
brenda m - Aug 24, 2007 6:27:00 am PDT #6570 of 10001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
we got several days of rain
So did we, last night between 4 and 7 pm. I think your way is probably better.
Scrappy - Aug 24, 2007 6:30:18 am PDT #6571 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
All you Midwest-istas--let's be careful out there!
§ ita § - Aug 24, 2007 6:34:07 am PDT #6572 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Yikes. Stay as dry as possible, folks.
Sophia Brooks - Aug 24, 2007 6:34:21 am PDT #6573 of 10001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
Sumi- Be careful
Sue- did she move up to "professional" from "support staff". Because I get really cranky about substitute phone answering because of that sometimes.
Kathy A - Aug 24, 2007 6:34:39 am PDT #6574 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
I hope you get home all right, sumi!!
IcompletelyON, Jon likes carrots. Well, maybe not, but carrots likes Jon!
Susan W. - Aug 24, 2007 6:38:54 am PDT #6575 of 10001
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
The drought level here has been declared "exceptional," which sounds much more fun than it is. Exceptional is meteorology-speak for 100-year drought. We're neck and neck with the worst recorded drought in Georgia. Weather records: never a good thing. It's already the hottest August on record, and we're looking forward to another extra-crispy day. The two things are apparently related; the system that's stuck over the southeast is blocking the rain from going anywhere, so the midwest gets floods and we get the surface of the moon.
When I was in Alabama earlier this month, it was above 100F every day I was there. I commented to my mom that I didn't think I'd experienced that much triple-digit heat in my entire 18 years growing up there in the 1970's and 80's, and she agreed. That kind of heat used to be almost unheard of. It was much more low to mid-90's with high humidity, which isn't exactly pleasant but also doesn't sap all your energy the instant you walk out the door. IIRC Birmingham has had less than half the average amount of rain for the year thus far. On top of the punishing heat, the air quality is terrible. So, yeah, I'd love to send some rain their way.