Go ita! on the non-head-pain thing.

I almost don't want to say anything out of fear of jinxing it....

"degrade gracefully"

I've been looking for that phrase! I meant to file it next to "planned obsolescence" but couldn't remember the "degrade" part. Thank you!

It needs to be lunchtime sooner.

It needs to be hometime sooner.

Now I need to stay on top of the head pain. Often I don't realise it until it's so full blown that the pills I have at home aren't useful.

Emily, I love that phrase. I need to slip it into more conversations. I did slip it into a krav class once, and everyone thought I was nuts.

But I am!

Tom--thanks for that link. Agriculture and politics continue to surprise me. I think I got the beet is king idea from something like that--that the US didn't import cane sugar, instead importing beet sugar. Which is not the point, even if it's one of the after-effects.

Then again, enough of my ancestors worked in cane fields (can't stand the stuff myself--the smell/taste of everything from the growing plant through the cut plant all the way to wet sugar nauseates me) that my perspective has odd holes in it.

Um, isn't Natter whitefont for current seasons?

Oops! Sorry! I’m sorry if I spoiled anyone, I hate being spoiled. Twenty lashes with a wet noodle!

bon, have you watched Damages at all? Sparky? Lee? Vortex? They're spending a lot of slow time inside a law firm, and I was wondering how they were handling it. Of course, if you cast Glenn Close you're hardly going to be spending time with fuzzy humanitarianism, but even as an outlier...

I have. I like it, but not enough to keep up with it. When I had 5 eps on the Tivo and no cable, and still didn’t watch it, I knew it was a goner.

Often I don't realise it until it's so full blown that the pills I have at home aren't useful.

My boss was like that. She wouldn’t realize what was happening, but I would notice that she looked tired, and that she was reacting to light and tell her to take an imitrex. she often wouldn't, and then I'd have to follow her home because I was worried that she wouldn't be able to make the drive.

It needs to be hometime sooner.

Yeah, but you're six hours in the future. Here we haven't even hit elevensies yet.

It does need to be lunchtime. I got desperate and ate a slice of bread with peanut butter on it, which was not planned for my day's eating. Now I'm worried that I didn't bring enough food.

I'm pretty sure sugar cane is (or was) a big industry in Louisiana (hence, the Sugar Bowl college football game).

And south of Houston is a town called Sugar Land, home to Imperial Sugar. And Tom DeLay.

Okay, but this, from wikipedia, is just wrong:

In 2006 CNN/Money and Money magazine ranked Sugarland third on its list of the 100 Best Cities to Live in the United States.

I watched the Cane pilot a while back, and liked it a lot. Took me a while to figure out all the characters & relationships though - it was the most densely written pilot I saw all season.

Yeah, but that means I've been in work for seven and a half hours already.

Also, I promise I'll be thinking of you when I go home at five.