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.

Nilly, there are no feet even near your mouth! And...it's all of that. Isn't that fun & special? But really, my problem is me. In some cases, time and familiarity will let me relax. In some cases, no amount of time and familiarity will help, because it is inherently stressful for someone like me; however, it has a finite drop dead date, so I just need to roll with it until we get there.

I actually had written out everything that was going on, with all the interlocking parts and I think we are all insane. Really.

Brett Favre is a Jet.

I haven't been following this too closely. Does everyone in Wisconsin hate him now? (Not 'cuz he left, but because he was (I think) being a dick about it?)

There's a good deal of resentment both towards Brett and towards the Packers right now. Long-time season ticket holders are threatening to give up their tickets (which is just a cruel tease as far as I'm concerned). Unfortunately, a LOT of anger is also being directed towards Aaron Rodgers - who said some unpolitic things at the beginning of this mess, but is now just trying to keep his head down and play. Personally, I'm with the Pack and Rodgers - to the point of considering going to the 49ers-Pack preseason game (I hate preseason games - they're such a tease).

lisa, you [Edit: both singular as well as plural] look both pretty and fun-having. Yay!

Jeebus, I'm clutching my beer so hard in that pic. YAY!

sara, much-less-stress~ma to you.

however, it has a finite drop dead date, so I just need to roll with it until we get there.

Well, that's what I was wondering. Is there a deadline in sight? And can you hang on until then.

"Ruined" in the sense of "taken everything away," I guess. The speaker spent years pulling himself up from relative poverty to a position of wealth and influence, but now all that's gone and he's a wanted fugitive trying to survive on the run. Oh, and his country has been overrun by its oldest enemy and is under martial law, which he's patriotic enough to consider worse than anything that's happened to him personally.

Upon reflection, ruiner is just not working in that sentence. Gâcher doesn’t really work either. I think I might just use prendre, which in its basic meaning is “to take”, but can also imply “to take by force” (including seizing, capturing, taking over) and is used when talking about thieves, kidnappers, or even someone who “steals” your idea.

"Vous avez pris tout ce qui m’est cher, alors je ferai de mon mieux pour vous le revaloir." (You’ve taken everything that I hold dear, so I’ll do my best to pay you back / get even with you.)