thanks all for the happies.

I have worked here for a year and a half. (Maybe exactly that today? Huh.) Anyway, WHY OH WHY do people not know how to spell my name?!? My boss spelled my last name wrong in an email to someone Outside, and another coworker just spelled my first name wrong in an email!

No wonder I'm cranky. I'd better have a right-hand cookie.

Which they probably wear as a hat.

oh, and beer. for waiting for the plows to come through.

Our neighborhood almost voted for secession because of the plowing problem two years back. we were going to blockade using water taxis.

t /homesick.

though my former busdriver DH has never spent a full winter in the north so this should be at least amusing. he has my car today.

My boss spelled my last name wrong in an email to someone Outside, and another coworker just spelled my first name wrong in an email!

Your last name is, like, phonetic, right?

I'm having really, really shitty day today. I just keep telling myself, bonus in two weeks... bonus in two weeks..., hoping that it will keep the jackholes and the douchebags at bay.

I just spent the last hour at my desk writing a blog entry. Is that what it's like to have a desk job that has few responsibilities? Cause if so, I totally missed that aspect of employment when I was in the classroom.

I laugh at the folks who are in the mid-atlantic with their storm fright. But I don't laugh too loudly as LA folks are morons in the rain and it looks like we have a big storm coming tomorrow or friday.

(Though not enough to drive out Bernadette from Priscilla, Queen of the Desert.)

The day anything does this will be the day when there is no chocolate left in the whole universe.

Signed, Loves Priscilla With A Fierceness That Might Be Called Psychotic

(P.S.: Have similar problems with that Elrond character, to greatly amusing effect.)

Your last name is, like, phonetic, right?

Yeah. I'm pretty sure she says it wrong, too, but she hardly ever says it in situations where I could correct her.

Oh! AND! Just recently I was saying how my grandfather said it without the second R, and it turns out most people spell it that way, too. So I said it out loud several times. She leaves out the first R.

Your last name is, like, phonetic, right?

SERIOUSLY. Poor Jesse. You totally need a right-handed cookie!

I want soup. Warm, creamy (or cheesy) soup. I could make this soup at home. But, I am here. Feh.

Check out this footwear for men: [link]

AFTER an absence of seven years on the menswear scene, Manolo Blahnik has dusted off his sketchbook - and created a line of men's shoes so fabulous, they are pretty much guaranteed to knock your man's socks off. The six-piece collection runs the gamut from safely stunning (the red suede Oxford brogue), to the outrageously gorgeous (in the shape of leopard print sandal, Bir). "It's not a big collection," reflects the designer, who was honoured with a CBE just a couple of weeks ago. "There are some simple sandals in beautiful materials, and a few classics - with a twist. I thought it was time to bring back some colour into the male wardrobe." Look out for the collection, due in store from February.

I'm trying to think where I could wear the leopard print sandals....