I'd pay good money to watch you ask Cricket to edit in a bikini.

And then I'd have to pay good money to a medical professional to fix you up.

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If anyone has some job~ma to spare I'm hopefully discussing future projects with Nickelodeon tomorrow

Lots & Lots of Job~ma, with a scoop of Negotiate~ma on top!

Disney is even going to let me bring in an assistant for the busiest part of the show.

Why do I get the feeling I won't be able to do this due to schedule conflicts.

I don't think Cricket will edit in a bikini. I think she'd hurt me if I suggested it.

Yes, but what if she says Yes!... :: slaps self :: bad host. bad thoughts.

I'd pay good money to watch you ask Cricket to edit in a bikini.

Um, I'm thinking you could sell tickets to that. Popcorn too.

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Why does he need so much less sleep than me?

because he is sprog, and apparently all (several) 2-3 y/o sprog are timed to go off sometime while we are trying to catch up on sleep this week.

who me? yeah. Last night, she had a bad dream that earned us 3 hours of sleep total. She actually asked for a dreamcatcher for her room. Tonight looks to be a repeat.

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It is really random what of the iTunes music didn't bite the bullet and was saved. Crazy. Different loads from different times. Either way, like 2/3 of my rips are gone. All my ratings and play counts. :: sigh :: Guess I know what I'll be doing for awhile.

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I'm glad to hear you're doing better, Omnis. Sorry about the itunes, though. That bites.

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I'm being good and just chopped up a bunch of vegetables for tomorrow night's dinner. I figure I'm awake now, and I generally have no energy right before dinner, so might as well do the prep stuff now.

Cauliflower is difficult to cut.

I'm also trying to read A Brief History of Time, but I think I have exactly the wrong level of physics education for this book. There are some passages that just seem really boring because I know all of that stuff, and then other passages where he'll mention something for like a sentence and I want to know more. I don't know enough about it to know where I should look for more info. I also want more equations. t /geek

(OK, that tag never really closes.)

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Jars, I think you're mom and mine must be sisters or something. I'm so sorry, but at least I seem to have found my long lost cousin! Oh, and I have serious just about everything to add to the pile of flesh heading towards your mom. I could stand to lose it, and it sounds like she needs it.

GC, what gorgeous pics. You two are so adorable together.

Javacat, I thought you were planning on giving me some notice to clean and then taking my futon. But if you want to come fast or want your own room, some of those listed are really B&Bs, and I don't really know about them, but of the hotels, the Alaskan is quirky and historical but probably a little bit seedy and noisy; the Driftwood Lodge is boring, but clean and inexpensive; you don't want the Juneau Hotel or anything in the valley. Actually, I just saw the Silverbow, and I would go with that one. It's nice. Interesting and comfortable and quirky, but also clean and not right over a rowdy bar. Instead, it's right over fresh bagels and really good coffee. Definitely, if not my place, then Silverbow.

I think we have Celebration this year, too, because it's every other year and online I thought I saw that the last one was 2006. It's a lot of fun. Or, come for Folk Fest. That's pretty great too, and it's earlier in the year so the weather's a bit iffy, but the airfare is a lot cheaper!

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Chiming in with a mighty Word! to the hotness of GC and GF. Ignoring meara's cupcake talk. Hil, you've reminded me to cook cauliflower! I'm going to make it into a puree with some spring onions and coriander, I think, and make some gravy to go with. Mmmm...

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Morning!

So class last night had a bit of a slap down. Coming from yours truly.

We have a girl in our class who is 17 and a senior in high school. She is extremely intelligent, has been taking college courses since she was 15, and is so effin obnoxious, I can't stand it. Most of the class rolls their eyes when she wants to interject in the discussion because she has this tone that is just whiny and put-upon. Her "bad reading experience" story was fifteen minutes on how she was forced to read Animal Farm in fifth grade (?!?!?) and, being a vegetarian, she found the book so offensive and didn't understand why her teacher would pick a satire on communism for a 5th grader to read and teachers are horrible when it comes to holding kids back from reading and blah blah blah. She just doesn't shut up.

Anyway, last night we were discussing Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and I made the point that while there was no obvious moral to the tale as was the custom with children's stories of the time, it seemed to me that the Queen of Hearts represented Queen Victoria blah blah blah analytical cakes. The Obnoxious One says, "Well, maybe, but then who would the King of Hearts represent? He was just so quiet and didn't really do anything except pardon people the Queen condemned." I looked at her and said, "Prince Albert. Queen Victoria's husband. Who was quite like that." TOO then goes off on a rant about how much it must suck to be a king in England if it's always the Queen that are "bloody" and making all the decisions and tries to lecture *ME* on the British monarchy and succession. After she shut up I replied, "Prince Albert wasn't the King because the monarchy came down through Victoria. The current Queen's husband is also a Prince Consort because the royal line isn't his. However, when the current Queen dies, there will a King again and probably for the next long while. Unless something God Forbid happens. And as it stands right now, four people have to die before there will be a directly ascending Queen at which point England would have the first Supermodel Monarch." She just stared at me. And then our prof called break.

I feel kinda bad for slapping at the little girl, but she just pressed my buttons. She's a bratty little know-it-all who feels the need to spout all of her knowledge all over without a thought to the actual discussion at hand. I don't mind know-it-alls - hell, I *AM* one, but be a know-it-all about the discussion - not some random bullshit about your little brother's teacher and how you wished he was gifted like you.

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