Rapunzel would also work for that. "Sorry, trapped in the tower, you know how it is"

Mr Jane wants to make the front of the bar look like the bow of a ship and then fly a pirate flag from the rooftop deck for Halloween.

He is also crazy.

but...but...it's HALLOWEEN! How could you not want to go to the party???? (It's my favorite holiday.)

Heh. To be fair, the last couple of years I've gotten really in to it myself. But for those times when you can't manage being around the humans, it's still a great trick.

Mr Jane wants to make the front of the bar look like the bow of a ship and then fly a pirate flag from the rooftop deck for Halloween.

Which reminds me, tiny pirate

Which reminds me, tiny pirate

Awww. I want to knit that for the cherub.

GodDAMNit.

Just got an email telling us that although tomorrow is a faculty work day (no classes) so that we can work on writing scads of narrative comments, we have to be on campus.

WTF?!? Why? That is so fucking arbitrary. So I get to lose 2-3 hours of my "work day" to commuting when I could be working from home?

Last year they always let us work from home on comment-writing day. This is ridiculous. I'm pissed.

Just got an email telling me that they chose a different candidate for a position I had applied for internally. The job requirements are a perfect match to my experience...but the job is in Denver. Oh well. I'll take solice in the fact that I got a personal e-mail in a timely manner instead of a generic message 2 months from now.

FIVE MORE DAYS.

Just got an email telling us that although tomorrow is a faculty work day (no classes) so that we can work on writing scads of narrative comments, we have to be on campus.

I so feel you. We got a similar rug yanked after a long week of meetings and stuff when it was "clarified" at five minutes to twelve that

Noon: Wrap. Go Home!

on the schedule did not in fact mean we could go home. I about lost my shit.

Mr Jane wants to make the front of the bar look like the bow of a ship and then fly a pirate flag from the rooftop deck for Halloween.

AWESOME.

Also awesome? The Malificent costume. Though the Queen from Snow White was always my favorite. She had the best outfits AND a talking mirror.

I don't have one myself, but I don't think they're entirely unpractical - nursing a 4-month old in public is close to impossible without a cover because they're so distractable.

Annabel was fully bottle-fed by 4 months, but I can't imagine that she would've been willing to eat under one of those things. She was forward-facing in her Baby Bjorn from 5 or 6 weeks because she fussed and fussed when we wore it with her facing into our chests, and all my early experiments with the sling were failures for the same reason.

Annabel will be a pirate for Halloween, in this costume: [link]