Sometimes performance reports are amusing:

Yakov Smirnoff was in the House.

Had a real scare. I'm in Washington State. My brother is in the hospital in Charlottesville VA (unrelated to his previous hospitalization). He called me a few minutes ago on his cell phone asking telling me an earthquake destroyed the hospital, that he was alone in the dark and to please get him some help. (He told me he was hanging up to preserve the battery.)

My first thought was to call the Charolttesville police, and found out there had been no earthquake or explosion. I called back on his hospital room phone, got a nurse who was there reassuring him that he was fine, the hospital was fine, he had just had a really bad nightmare. Even with the nurse right there he asked me if I was sure there was no earthquake. From past Buffista conversations, I gather that some really strong pain meds can have paranoia as a side effect.

Cool, real life Simpson opener.

Typo, that is scary. I hope he's ok.

Christmas gifts for the family!

That's the plan this year, I think.

We are in high election angst here at Chez Burrell. But at least I now know we're in good company.

I'm going to be heading for a post-election crash, no matter what the results of the election are, I fear.

I'm going to work and it's not dark outside. Yay!

Oh, SHIT, Typo Boy! I'd have totally freaked out over a call like that! Thank goodness he's in a place where they watch over him for side effects like that, rather than sent home alone or whatever. I'm sure I'd still be shaking.

At least you'll have some laughs over this in the future, but in the here and now, not so funny.

God, Typo Boy. I'm glad the two of you are OK. It is the definition of scare.

IWow!CoolUniversityNews, my Victorian England class? My lecturer was really excited about the possibility that I'll be writing the end-of-the-year paper on the Doctor Who episode (when I mentioned the episode, he offered it as a subject!). I'm trying to get his approval for writing the book reporty semester paper on Neverwhere.

Shines

Edit: oh, and I just spent an hour lying on the grass in the sun, listening to music and catching up on Black Hole. I really don't wanna say anything, but man, that's the hardest day on my schedule (12 hours including 4 hour gap).

That is scary. Pain meds can definitely have effects like that, and steroids even more so if that happens to be something they're giving him. My mother would go through bouts of being convinced that she was being held hostage in Florida (which she had a longstanding hate-on for). I'm glad you were able to figure it out quickly and reassure him.

ION, billytea should know that the Shedd aquariaum is having two weeks of free admission in honor of the 75th birthday of an Australian lungfish.

Oh dear Typo, what a scare! I hope your brother is okay.

Yikes, Typo, that sounds really scary. Glad things are OK on the natural disaster level, at least.

I just sent an email to coworkers about phone banking for Obama, which I think is probably sketchy, but I titled it "personal request" and said explicitly that it has nothing to do with our work. It's just, HQ is right by our office! Why not do it??