Amych! Are you around for a bit? Do you have any time to look over something for me? I need a sanity check.

There's a commercial on for a special plastic pot for cooking pasta in the microwave. They're actually talking about how difficult and inconvenient it is to cook pasta on the stove, because it uses boiling water, and if the heat is too high, it'll boil over, and if it's too low, the pasta will stick together. Also, there's a shot at the beginning of a woman collapsing under the weight of carrying pasta, a pot, a lid, a colander, and a few other things that I couldn't identify.

Happy Birthday Kat!

I just know if I hit them with questions about true alternative lifestyles, they might just look at me as if I've grown a third eye. Because what romance considers "alternative" vs. what's truly alternative are no doubt quite different.

I recently made the mistake of trying to explain slash to a group of romance writers over lunch. We were talking about how you know you've made it as an author, and my measure was, "When there's a thriving fanfic community devoted to my work." I added that I was fine with people slashing my protagonist and his best friend, but if anyone slashed my protagonist and antagonist, I didn't want to know, because I'd have to hunt them down and kill them with a spork. Anyway, they knew what slash was, but they seemed baffled by the idea that I was writing my protagonist and his friend as straight while being aware of and comfortable with a potential for homoerotic subtext.

It was weird. I'm used to being the vanilla one at the table.

my excitement for the weekend? time to get a new toilet. grr.

Oh msbelle!

yep, feel my excitement as I read through toilet reviews online. What is AWESOME about this is 1 ) that the things I am reading with good reviews were not at my Home Depot, so I am not sure about local availability 2) I probably have to take a day off work 3) The water has to be shut off to all toilets in my apartment line (5 others) while they do the switch.

The cost just means that apartment work I had hope to do in August is now cancelled.

The American Standard Cadet III is a good model, and readily available.

When we had to replace ours a few months ago (because 50 year old toilets are no one's friend), we weighed that vs. the Toto, and the Toto didn't have enough advantages to outweigh the price difference. We're pretty happy with the Cadet III.

I spent WAY more time than I wanted to on toilet forums before that.

I was looking at Toto Drake, Niagara Flapperless, and Eljer Aqua Saver. Based on price only at the Home Depot it was between the Kohler Wellington and the Cadet III, but both of those were panned on the sites I was reading. Thanks for letting me know you are please with your Cadet III.

Happy Birthday, Kat!

I have also had raspberry pie. I think.