Frank Pembleton had a stroke.(I'd actually have loved to see Braugher play impaired for that whole year, like he wanted to) If he's not a detective, my cosmology's gone all wonky now.(Although there's something to be said for the Chandler shout-out implicit in blunt-force trauma...which I almost wrote as "blunt force drama"...if I blogged about SVU, I'd have a title now.)

I took today off to wait around New!House for the city inspector to make sure our new gas meter is not going to, you know, explode or something. I spent three hours pulling up 40-year-old vinyl flooring, which was covered in sticky glue from the 30-year-old vinyl flooring that we pulled up last week. Yuck. In the bright side, tonight we get to go to a screening of Stacy Peralta's [link] new film. A friend of ours is working on it and it is in final edit stage and she has very good things to say about it.

which I almost wrote as "blunt force drama"...if I blogged about SVU, I'd have a title now.

It's almost enough to make me insist you start blogging about SVU, but that's a harsh and cruel demand to place on anyone. Still, you really have to find some excuse to use that phrase somewhere.

Oh, I don't know, if I really hate it, I can cry, draw my lips in a few hundred times and dye my hair and make people start mistaking me for Mariska Hargitay.

That is a beautiful phrase, erika.

Jesus, Steph -- that's so crazy. Definitely report the income somehow, and eff your shady employer.

So, a coworker of mine got let go today. Of course, I've know it was going to happen for WEEKS, because my boss is just that unprofessional. Another coworker floated the idea of applying for the job, and my boss brought the idea to a higher-up last week, who was all, "And why does [coworker] even know that job might be open??" Yeah.

Total accident. Nice descriptor of the whole L&O pantheon, though(If I may say so)

Steph, yeah, I think pointing out to boss lady that you're going to have to report it legally and it will eventually come back to haunt the company -- you can phrase it as being concerned for the sake of the company. Besides, seriously, I would have expected that having to account for monies spent developing a book would be stuff you can deduct from the taxes owed by the company.

I got my student ID today! Now I can into movies at a reduced rate, woohoo!

In the absence of Tom's customary relevant links, may I present Francorp founder jailed for tax fraud?

I can't get over this sentence from yesterday's vaginal reconstruction link:

Some patients say having a sleeker, thinner labia makes a tremendous difference in their lives.

I...I...I just don't get it. But perhaps I spend too much of my life wearing underwear.

If you're being a pedant about kilo- and mega- and powers of two, you're wrong. Hmmph.

Timelies all!

Happy Birthday Trudy!