I'm watching Harper's Island -- I have to say this is just

odd. So far no one has a clue who is dead. and I don't really care that any one is dead. too many slimy people

But I'll probably keep watching.

Plus you get french fries automatically when you sit down.

I think that the guys behind the counter decide what you're going to have the moment you sit down. They have a dare-you-to-defy air to them.

Ugh ita. I wish I had a job lead for you.

To go back to Aurelia's question from last night, it looks like NBC won't make/announce it's decision on Chuck (or Life) until 5/19

Life is apparently canceled. Boo!

Could someone here do me a favour and get me a job as a technical project manager or a business analyst or combination thereof in the Greater LA area? I work hard and flexibly.

oh ita. I might be able to find you one in NS, but I think that even the summers are too cold for you here.

Ugh, ita. Looking for a job right now must be a nightmare.

ita-- I wish I had a job for you... but even if I did it would be in upstate ny.

My boss had to leave tomeet her daughter, who is uninsured and peeing blood, at the emergency room in Albany. Now I think I am going to have to take my cat to the vets ASAP because she is having trouble peeing. I don't even know who to call in to or who could cover for me.

We have both Red Robin and Fudruckers around Durham, NC. I like the Red Robin better than Fudruckers, and the burgers at a couple of small, Carrboro restaurants better than either.

Boomer's in Bellingham has fantastic burgers. Just sayin.

ita, dammit. I'd give anything for an adequate job for the moment to appear for you. This sucks so hard.

I would have liked to see that first treatment--that seemed the organic way for the storyline to go. I have heard that Weatherly and Alba were being diva-ish about producing and the storyline, and that at one point it had gone so far Weatherly was counting lines in the script to make sure Alec didn't have more than Logan. Couldn't have been a happy set to work on.

Hmm. Well of course chains are not going to match local places (or sometimes small chains that still have local roots.)

Incidentally, everywhere I've ever lived the best onion rings and fries in town were always at some local bar. (That applies here in Olympia took where the best fries in town are at the Iron Rabbit.) I wonder if there is something about bars where the demand for fries is just at the right scale.

Most opiates make me wide awake. Cheerful, but awake. The sum total of drugs that make me sleepy = Ambien.

Winsteads in Kansas is a chain

Calvin Trillin has written at some length about the glories of Winstead's in Kansas City.