His collection of uber-cheesy Hawaiian shirts endures, huh?

Alas, I have not been taking pictures all week.

I think it goes without saying that I love, adore, could not live without this board and all of you. But I'll say it anyway.

My schadenfreude is on overtime as a result, Susan.

so the effect is what's caused by an action.

Awesome! Thanks to both Emily and Amy.

After loads of psychology courses, I'm familiar with affect (the presentation of emotion) but have always been tentative about other ways to use e-a ffect.

The board has been so slow lately. I need entertainment, people!

I found out I don't have class next Wed. and Thurs. so GF and I may be heading to Disneyland and CA Adventure next week! Woot!

This is what I'm saying! More posting! Keep me awake!

I have to say that I really really value (1) the clarity, simplicity and elegance of our board and (2) the fact that Buffistas care about grammar, spelling and punctuation.

This is why I couldn't deal with the cancer support sites. Under the circumstances, I couldn't deal with the posts that appeared to have been written by a cat, except that a cat wouldn't type lol so often. Also, most of the people were asking questions that showed they knew nothing at all about their illness and treatment. You're on the internet, people. Google, for the love of god.

For those of you following the adventures of the dog, here's the latest: I was in another room and I heard a series of loud thumps. I discovered that the dog had wrestled a shoe into his crate and fallen asleep on it.

I discovered that the dog had wrestled a shoe into his crate and fallen asleep on it.

After all that hard work to drag it in there, no wonder he needed a nap.

I find it endlessly amusing & cute when Sass steals my DH's shoes, because they're so big and she's so small. He'll say, "Get my shoe!" at the same time I'll say, "Get the camera!"

except that a cat wouldn't type lol so often.

Here's the thing about "lol" -- I'd say that at least 50% of the time I see it used, it's used in a context that doesn't make any sense to me. Like, it's supposed to indicate that someone is (at the very least) amused, if not literally laughing out loud, right? So then why do people write things like:

"So then I just put my jim shooz on lol and laced them up and went to the grocery store lol!"

Because -- WHAT THE FUCK IS FUNNY ABOUT THAT?!? I have a good sense of humor, goddammit! But your excessive and a-contextual "lol"s are driving me apeshit!

Ahem. Thank you for letting me get that off my chest.

It's even worse when the posting is "Thier ar Big Sores im my muoth lol."

I'm pretty sure my cats are NEVER loling.