I should probably be thanking God that my computer doesn't have sound, huh?
Natter 58: Let's call Venezuela!
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Some lady brought a cat on the train. Which of course isn't allowed (as it was not a seeing-eye cat).
I wanted to go over and say hi to the kitty, but it looked like the woman didn't want to call attention to her illegal cat transport scheme, so I didn't.
When I first heard the meowing, I thought it was someone's ringtone....
Despite eating a ton of veggies for lunch around 2, I am starved. Debating between a bunless turkey burger or chicken gyro. I'd really just like a coffee milkshakey thing, but I think that'd be a bad example for mac.
Am jealous of Theo's backyard hanging out.
Tangentially, I love how the new metrocards say " your carbon footprint is 1/4 of the national average!" Like most NYCers need a boost in that smug superiority area.
Why *are* gas prices so low in MO?
(I can't believe I referred to $3.60-ish a gallon as low. Jesus.)
DUDE.
I just got my first ever official leave-an-hour-early-permission email! I can leave in twelve minutes! This is unprecedented--but AWESOME.
This story on state gasoline taxes has a chart of what each state adds to the price of gas through taxes (not including local/county taxes--Cook County, I'm looking at you!).
I think I'll leave early too, especially since I'll have to do some work on Memorial Day.
Why *are* gas prices so low in MO?
There's a funny orange blip in Texas where one county only has one city, Fort Stockton, and its gas price is about twenty cents higher than the surrounding counties'.