I had leftover pie for breakfast. I love my day off.

Now the dog is whining and whining and whining. So I think that means I have to go walk her and go to the post office and send a book to Dana!

msbelle, check out the source of the pill that "doesn't do anything at all"

Omg, everything that could possibly go wrong is.

Oh dear. I was afraid I was going to have one of those days, but I seem to have shed my bad day all over everyone else.

I love waking up to NPR, but that doesn't work as well when my alarm goes off between 5:30 and 5:45 in the morning and ND doesn't have to be up until much later. I am a really deep sleeper and am guilty of the snooze button, but that doesn't seem to bother him (I have lightning reflexes when it comes to snooze-button thwapping). It's a problem, actually. Having to be quiet in the morning makes me sleepy.

My cats are the ultimate snooze button, though. They come over and curl into me and start purring. Very difficult to get out of bed when a happy cat doesn't want you to.

The Glo pillow isn't the first time someone has tried to turn a pillow into an alarm clock, but this method sounds much better than others. The Glo pillow turns on an embedded LED 40 minutes prior to the designated waking time. It will slowly intensify in brightness until it is a full on. It does this to slowly ease the body out of the deep slumber. The slowness of the waking process doesn't shock the body clock into waking up therefore leaving the person extra groggy.

Yeah, that'll work. Since it already works so well for, you know, the sky. That's why we're all up at dawn every day in the first place.

Yeah, gradually-increasing light isn't going to wake me up at a given time unless it's bright enough to give me a tan like Richard Dreyfuss in Close Encounters of the Third Kind.

I don't have any problem waking up. I have a problem with making a commitment to staying awake.

I do wake up whenever the sun comes up unless I have good shades to block it. That pillow might be jut what I need.

Or it might give me nightmares that I am sleeping on a radioactive mushroom.

It's a problem, actually. Having to be quiet in the morning makes me sleepy.

This is me. Luckily, I can have NPR on if it's not above, what you might hear coming out of someone's headphones from a seat away.

Xposted with Bitches, after discussing with Andi, not everyone here is also there and vice-versa :

I was catching up on my reading of eWeek, and lo and behold who should show up but our own Jilli.

It was a brief article covering the Microspotting blog.

A petticoat- and top-hat-wearing Goth was another Microspotted employee, also not the image presented by "PC guy."

From the interview, readers learn that not only does this Technical Editor on the Dev Div team write an online advice and etiquette column for Goths, she often finds herself doing the same for Microsoft employees who have questions about her subculture.

"Every team I’ve been on, I’ll get someone who wanders into my office and says, 'So, my kid’s getting into this wearing all black kinda thing, listening to weird music … can I bring them into to talk to you?' And I’m always like, 'Sure! I’m happy to explain that you can still be a freak and a gainfully employed grown-up,'" Jilli** V***** told Microspotting.

(real name removed by me)

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I give no comment on the article itself, just "Buffistas! in unexpected places!"

ETA: Feb 18th issue

Another chart that cracked my shit up: [link]