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.

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ETA: Hi Zen! I'm so sorry to hear about your mom. Tons of coping~ma to you and your family.

Zenkitty, lots of hugs and ~ma of all kinds to you and your mom and your sister.