V. pretty tattoo design! Looking forward to seeing the actual tattoo! Also - holy cow, you have the Best Job EVAH!!!!

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"to explain what aliens want, and why they're kidnapping men and anally probing them."

Don't women get kidnapped and probed too? Or are they just used for alien/human crossbreeding experiments?

See, I was just sitting there biting my tongue. Because I'd already made a number of "OMGWTF???" style comments* during the course of the day, so responding to this blathering by saying "...but, leaving aside the whole issue of whether aliens ARE actually visiting the earth, and if so why this random Thai gentleman is the world expert on them, to the best of my knowledge it ISN'T just men who claim to have been taken away by aliens and, er, probed. It's also women. You're just hung up on the buttsecks notion, dude. Also, this Thai bloke is flown over to the US by NASA to speak with aliens? Regularly? What are you SMOKING?"....well, I felt that this would be a little combative. So I just bit my tongue and nodded and smiled.

*eg: AustralianReikiMasterBloke: "...and was it teleportation that put the pyramids there?"

MyFriends: respectful silence

Me: Er, yes. On Stargate. In the real world, though, it was the farmers who travelled up to Giza during the time of inundation to work on the great building project, for which they were paid - it wasn't slave labour. There's archaelogical evidence indicating where they were housed, and they built great ramps of earth around the pyramid as it was being built in order to move the stones up to the next levels.

AustralianReikiMasterBloke: And if we see another person in distress, we instinctively help them. We don't just tell them to piss off. Why is that?

MyFriends: respectful silence

Me: ...because we have social skills?

AustralianReikiMasterBloke: And if we see another person in distress, we instinctively help them. We don't just tell them to piss off. Why is that?

Me: ...because we have social skills?

Because hundreds of thousands of years ago we learned that a soft word turns away being beaten to death with a club?

And if we see another person in distress, we instinctively help them. We don't just tell them to piss off. Why is that?

Because humans have evolved as social animals who support each other in order to provide a support system that allows ALL of our children to survive, increasing our evolutionary viability as a species?

"...and was it teleportation that put the pyramids there?"

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I'm trying to get myself motivated to get dressed and go grade papers. (I was supposed to be tutoring today, too, but that got canceled because of the World Bank protests.) I really just want to go back to bed. But I've got a stack of papers that really need to be done today.

Ellie is with my mom on her way to New Mexico right now for an entire week. I miss her a bit. It's so weird being home alone.

Do you just collect these weirdos, Fay?

So, yesterday, I finished the entire run of the UK Office, by watching the Christmas special, and that was hands down the most romantic thing I've ever seen.

Show broke me. Hard.

It's wonderful, isn't it? Their relationship is real and hard-won and based on respect and acceptance and understanding and all kinds of things which are SO important in love but so hard to make "romantic" onscreen. And damned if they don't manage it beautifully. Great music in that ep, too.

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Hi, Bitches! I was gone. How's things?

Good to see you, Zen! Much ~ma to you and your family.

It's wonderful, isn't it? Their relationship is real and hard-won and based on respect and acceptance and understanding and all kinds of things which are SO important in love but so hard to make "romantic" onscreen. And damned if they don't manage it beautifully. Great music in that ep, too.

OMG, yes. I can't imagine how much it would have hurt having to watch it in real time, over a couple of years, rooting for Tim and Dawn the whole time.

And I loved it that even David finds a girl by the end, and starts to learn how to not be such a complete wanker all the time. Because that's the real heartbreaking beauty of David Brent -- he's horrible, but you can see that he's not a horrible person (unlike his "friend" Finchy), that deep down there's a good man there, whose just so full of fear and neuroses that you just never know what's going to come out of the poor man's mouth. But when he relaxes and stops trying so hard all the time? He gets a woman who likes him and wants her to call him again.

The show really, really broke me. I was crying and flailing, and just in bliss over such a wonderful TV show. Am now a serious Ricky Gervais fanboy.