Shir, your prof for Mythological Origins of Art can't comprehend shades of grey/layers? Why the fuck is he teaching it? Origins of art are rarely clear-cut.

I have no idea, but he just won't accept any layered answers. Which makes me worry about the test.

Say, hivemind: what's the name of the symbol of the snake in The Neverending Story? Ororo-something?

But my Oklahoma dream was very beautiful, very green and big and for some reason, with a deserty training base in it.

Shir, Oklahoma has its dry and dusty areas, but they are more high plains grassy and not so much rock-sand-cactus deserty. Otherwise, your description fits very well.

ouroboros

Thanks, Barb!

Yeah, things have Not Been Fun in the publishing industry this year. Luckily I'm fairly certain my job is safe as long as the company itself is solvent, but workload pressure is going to be increasing and there's no question of bonuses or even cost-of-living raises for the foreseeable future.

At Random House, Wednesday's reorganization has sewn great confusion.

C'mon Washington Post blogsters! It's "sown" not "sewn."

The only problem with the Strange Buildings is that this one is apparently destroyed, not strange: [link]

We can compromise and say it was destroyed strangely.

C'mon Washington Post blogsters! It's "sown" not "sewn."

Hopefully someone will figure it out soon.

Interview fail: this woman shows up 30 minutes early for her interview here, and is sitting in the reception area, poking away at her Blackberry, which she has not put on mute. So there's lots of beeping from it and sighing from her. This interview is for a very senior position.

I would not hire this woman, but I'm judgmental like that.