Yeah, I seem to recall your bizarre fortunately-unfortunately period there, Gris.

ION of smell, or lack thereof, the dog just came back from $90 (and 3 1/2 hours) worth of pampering and primping. Meanwhile I haven't had a haircut in six months. What is wrong with this picture?

Well, I'm fairly certain, even with split ends, you don't smell like a dog...

This is true. Plus I haven't been leaving great clumps of the stuff all over.

It's probably pointless and a waste of time, isn't it, to call out someone on a writers' loop for being a pedantic, condescending snob who thinks her country (England) is utterly superior to mine when it comes to literature, intellect, and all-around civilization? Because it's pissing me off.

ETA it's not that I don't love England, because I do. This woman just can't complain about anything in the publishing world without slurring "Yanks" and our tastes, and she's even playing the "it's called English for a reason" brand of prescriptivist grammar.

Gah!

Okay, I can pick up my Passport on Monday, so that's good. Got things prepped for what the folks need in Beverly Hills tonight. Had a quick cup of coffee with Kristin this afternoon. I have clothes packed for my trip to Orlando. I'm now frantically getting the rest of my stuff together for the trip so that I can get in the car and head to LAX in an hour.

Stop this ride, I think I want off.

Tell her it would be more correctly, etymologically speaking, to refer to the language as bastardized French-Angleish

It's very tempting, believe me.

"And yet we're the ones spreading it all over the world now, huh?" is always fun.

What is wrong with this picture?

At least you don't need someone to express your anal glands?

Three hours of overtime later....I'm stuck. I need some data that is in the office to continue, so it will have to sit. Oh, well. I got it part of the way fixed.

Funny thing - a bunch of the players (the project managers, my contract manager, my program manager, and my supervisor) were also online tonight, so lots of heated e-mails about whose fault, who should have caught the problem that was valued at $100k when all was said and done... Me, I'm smelling like a rose for jumping in and getting it fixed.

I skipped a grade in elementary school. Fourth, after a year of spending part of my day with a fourth grade class to learn long division (and part of the day on a bus to a part-time gifted program at another school, but that is a whole different thing). Since my birthday is in February I went from being one of the older kids in my grade to being just a little younger than the rest. Can't say I ever noticed it causing me problems.

DH and I had instant chemistry, but it was the daily spending time together doing things like shopping for groceries and hitting the laundromat that really cemented our relationship.

My new house has heat and hot water as of today, too! It's very exciting. Kitchen is painted, living room is painted, hallway is painted, bedroom is painted. I have one coat done in the office, and the paint bought for the bathroom. I still have to figure out exactly what colour I'm putting in the dressing/sewing/guest room. Some sort of blue, I think.

{{Erin}} travel safe and have a fabulous time in NYC.