I hate grading, even when I like the papers I hate having to grade them.

Did you ever find a taker for the one you were getting rid of? We are definitely interested.

I did not! I'd be very glad to get it off my spare bed. Do you also want a probably broken VCR and the shell of a PC?

Okay, having watched 2 episodes of the Janice Dickinson show I get why people hate LA. If those people actually exist and are being sincere, I might hate LA.

Are you in grading hell too, Kristin?

PLUS I just got a wee bit of grief from the hubby because I'm not working. Sigh. Guess I should be working.

Burrell, not tonight, but I will be starting Monday and going through Christmas. Feh.

Not a happy camper tonight. After straining my back moving magazine boxes to the new digs, I returned to my old apartment to discover that the work crews had blocked off the back stairwell with scaffolds and not bothered to announce it. The front stairwell, of course, leads to the door I chained from within. I ended up slithering through the scaffolds like Catwoman instead of breaking down the front door.

In Journeyman last night they talked about a wide spectrum anti-biotic which wouldn't even touch a viral infection. It isn't supposed to, right?

I have a ballistics-related question brought up by tonight's Unit. They talk about a soft-nosed hollow bullet, with a cavity half-filled with mercury. The premise is that when it makes contact with the target the mercury which has been pressed to the back of the bullet slams forward and the impact is expended before the bullet can penetrate the target deeply--premise being that you can shoot a guy and not worry about the through-and-through getting a bystander.

From either gun knowledge or physics knowledge, does that makes sense?

For the Journeyman question, you are totally right, ita.

I have no idea on the ballistics one, though it also sounds like a great way to slowly poison someone--they get the bullet out, but the mercury still gets to them?

Ye gods and little fishes. I just sat bolt upright and remembered that midnight is the cutoff for open enrollment for health insurance at my gig.

Nothing much is changing--I just need to beef up my pre-tax reimbursement account. Still, it's a good thing that my GOING TO SLEEP RITUAL INVOLVES BREAKING DOWN FUTURE AND PAST MEDICAL PLANS.

I'm going to be alone forever, I just know it.

I've asked one gun/physics krav geek that ballistics question. We shall see. As to the idea that the bullet can come out--I'm curious to know what condition it's in. From the scene of the juice exploding I couldn't begin to imagine. Might really mess up the ballistics testing, which could be a very good thing. If you're a bad person.

I don't even have a class and I am up early assessing papers. (No grades, just comments in the form of a letter). UGH. Why did I agree to this.

ita, I'm gonna say no to the VCR and unworking PC. But we'd love the TV. When would it be good to come by and get it?

ALSO, fuck! I missed the open enrollment period for the FSA. I am such a moron.