I've decided referring to it as a new zen is a lot better than the other way I could look at it. Heh. But really, when the skin on my back starts crawling halfway into work (stress,) I need to just chill and find a better view of the situation. Badly.

Lisa, the pics are great!

sara, is there an end in sight to this round of stress?

I get used to it and am not so freaked by everything that's going on all at once on a tight schedule?

Thanks, Kat!

I get used to it and am not so freaked by everything that's going on all at once on a tight schedule?

Is this a never ending thing? Just the way things are at your work now for the forseeable future? If so, then, yes with any luck you can just get used to it and things will go well and allow you to relax a bit (if that's just mentally, psychologically or whatever even if the intensity of the work doesn't let up).

I get used to it and am not so freaked by everything that's going on all at once on a tight schedule?

sara, please tell my to shove my foot deeply in my mouth and have a fine meal of shoes in sand sauce if I'm overstepping my bounds here, but I'm not sure I understand - is it that the newness of all those going-at-once things and their tight schedule is what's so stressful, and therefore time and getting-used-to-things are pretty much the best things to help getting over this newness and getting things on a better track, or are the very things themselves (which are new and tightly-scheduled) tense-making by nature, and no amount of time and getting-used-to is therefore helpful and a whole new whatever-it-may be is required, preferably with chocolate (which, um you may have already started doing, what with directing the way you try to think about matters and all)?

(Sorry for the messy phrasing. Apparently, not-enough-sleep makes me even wordier than usual. By this time next week, I'll probably need three posts, seventeen parentheses and I have no idea how many typos, just in order to type "timelies".)

Oh, Allyson, did you note I answered your question about bats?

My favorite part of the henchman ad:

Great promotion opportunities - right-hand-man position constantly being unexpectedly opened.

My favorite part of Nilly's post:

Apparently, not-enough-sleep makes me even wordier than usual. By this time next week, I'll probably need three posts, seventeen parentheses and I have no idea how many typos, just in order to type "timelies".)

Aside from the rest of it, I mean...

I can't even think about my work stress, because it's just too much. All I can do is try to do what needs to be done.

Cthulhu fonts

Toward a Canonical List of Zombie Rhymes

What are zombie rhymes? Well, they’re like this:

Q: What do zombies like to eat?
A: BRAAAAAAAAAAINS.

Q: What do vegetarian zombies like to eat?
A: GRAAAAAAAAAAINS.

Q: What do vegetarian zombies eat when they’re on vacation in Jamaica?
A: PLANTAAAAAAAINS.

Q: What is the favorite city of Illinois zombies?
A: DES PLAAAAAAINES.

Q: What are zombies’ favorite scale model entertainment?
A: MODEL TRAAAAAINS.

Q: What do vegetarian zombies eat when they’re on vacation in Jamaica?
A: PLANTAAAAAAAINS.

(a) In Jamaica, isn't more like "plant'n"? (b) Now I need to add where zombies live in Boston: Jamaica Plaaaaain. s.