I mean Edible Arrangements. Looks like they're about the same price range as Harry & David.

I've had the Edible Arragements before.

One was sent to a guy who was promoted, it was cool instead of flowers and then the other was sent for a birthday to a lady from her husband.

They are very tasty and pretty.

There's also The Cookie Garden.

My sister is inordinately weirded out by Edible Arrangements. Something about how it's wrong to make one thing (fruit) look like something else (flowers).

I like Harry and David. Everything I've tried from them has been good.

I just, once again, spent a day at my office and accomplished nothing. Well, I kind of accomplished something -- I realized that an idea my adviser wanted me to look at doesn't actually work. But then, once I realized that, I accomplished nothing else.

it's wrong to make one thing (fruit) look like something else (flowers).

I love it when they make one thing look like something else! I'm a big fan of marzipan for this very reason.

Sends Laga a pie plate. Made of marzipan.

Just because.

Bingo!

t wishes Andi was on IM, so he could IM her from work.

I sort of curled up in a ball for a week and dropped off the radar, and she freaked out and then felt humiliated for giving a damn, and decided that she couldn't be doing with someone so unreliable.

I've been pretty much curled up in a ball for the last year. I'm glad most of my friends are made of sterner stuff. Not calling your grandmother does not make you a bad person. Curling up in a ball does not make you a bad person. You give of yourself by being warm and funny and probably the best thing that every happened to your students.

I just got back from my day of being a venue "captain" at the ginormous book festival. My co-captain had the initiative and IQ of a philodendron. He also disappeared for almost two hours WITH THE FUCKING RADIO. I am all out of personality and on the way home, my car drove itself into the liquor store parking lot, because I got through the last hour of volunteering by thinking about beer. Now that I have a bottle of SweetWater's seasonal in me, the pain is subsiding.

Kristin, the ruptured ovarian cyst is hugely exhausting and it made me so queasy that I was convinced it was some kind of intestinal ailment. This is why I was baffled when the doctor kept asking me if there was a chance I was pregnant. I just said "Is there a star in the east?" I know you feel like you have a lot to do with the beginning of school, but really curling up with pain pills and comfort food is the way to go.

(I do have a favorite story from that incident. Being a less sane person that Kristin, I spent all night pacing, screaming in pain and pretty much randomly taking any medicine I had, then drove myself to urgent care and was pacing back and forth in front of the door when it opened at 8 a.m. My friends yelled at me, at length, for not calling them to take me to the ER. One said, "The next time you have organs exploding inside you, call me!")

Daniel, what's the name of that ducky IM program? I don't think it got installed on this computer yet. Can you do gmail's IM from there?