My friend just gave notice at the soul-sucking evil law firm she's been working at as a receptionist/admin person for the last five years (for example, the other day one of the partners said, about a woman with tremendous qualifications who they'd interviewed for a position there, "She'd be pretty if she lost 25 lbs." and they didn't hire her). So, as one small act of rebellion my friend is sending me some potato salad today via the courier service they contract with. Thank you, Evil Lawyers!

oh - good for her. we hate those evil people.

I r tired.

That's awesome, lisa!

I should be less tired than I am.

That is awesome.

Oh, I am feeling so much better than yesterday. I has tired and headachey all yesterday afternoon and evening.

It's like Les Nessman and the godless tornadoes.

Heh.

That and the non-flying turkeys are the two funniest episodes of that show.

SM, a friend from college days, draws my attention to this gem:

Australia's top treasury official is taking five weeks leave to look after endangered wombats.

Ken Henry, treasury secretary and animal conservationist, has warned that hairy-nosed wombats are "on death row".

But opposition politicians - and even wombat lovers - question if now is the time to be thinking about wombats.

Inflation is at a 16-year high, interest rates are up and fuel prices are rising. Mr Henry will also miss a central bank meeting.

Mr Henry will be looking after 115 hairy-nosed wombats in an isolated spot in northern Queensland, with no mobile phone coverage and two-and-a-half hours on a rough track from the nearest town.

"There are 10 times as many giant pandas in the world as there are these guys," said Mr Henry.

The opposition isn't sure this is a great idea even though, in what must be one of the lines of the year, Brendan Nelson acknowledges that "I think we all love the hairy-nosed wombat."

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Hey Lisah, is this a big Baltimore firm?

re Les Nessman et al. - I still hear echoes of the first episode when Howard Hesseman's character, being told that the format is changing and he'll have more freedom, blasts Cincinnati with some rock music and then leans into the microphone and says "bugger" (actually, I think it was "buggahhhhhhhhh")

I'm assuming he's a relative of billytea.

Tyson Homosexual.... bahahahahaha...I am 12 today.

I tend to lowball the pain. When I had my surgery, I kept telling them I didn't need pain meds. Finally the nurse said "I'm not asking you if you can bear it, I'm asking if you feel any pain at all" and I said "well yeah, it hurts but I can deal." She then made me take some drugs.

My friend Julie said when she was in labor, she realized there's no reason to overestimate one's pain threshold BEFORE you are in full blown labor. She said she was about a 7 on pain tolerance before the kid. With the twins, apparently she said she was a 2.

I don't wanna go teach summer school.