On the plus side for your living room: absinthe and snarking from both SH and the Stroppy One.
On the plus side for the Castro: grand surroundings, and two thousand snarky gay men appreciatively oohing and ahhhing at all the things that make you ooh and ahh.
Ahaahaha. I would say offer it to Cass or Trudy.
Trudy has an album signed the day it dropped. She's good.
Maybe your light fixtures do look like props from Phantom of the Opera.
Do you honestly think Pete would let me have those in the house? No matter how gloriously over-the-top I think they are?
Do you honestly think Pete would let me have those in the house?
I'm certain of it. There's no possible way his refined and discriminating designer's eye could ever object.
Someone a couple blocks away is blasting "Blue Bayou".
You know what will be my favorite thing about graduating and getting a job? Having my own office. With a door that closes. (Of course, with my luck, I'll probably end up getting a job somewhere where new professors get cubicles.)
Are there any kind of earplugs that don't go quite as far into the ear but still work? I got the foam kind that you squish and then put into the ear canal and then let expand, and they work pretty well, but they sometimes kind of hurt.
I do not understand how people can work while there are three other conversations going on in the same tiny room.
Thanks, Laga. The kind I was already using is one of the top-rated ones there. I guess I'll try some of the others that ranked higher for comfort.
I use these, Hil, and find them way more comfortable than others I've tried. [link] They're soft enough that I can sleep with them in without feeling it.
Today, it seems, was the anniversary of the day that California joined the US. Officemate 1 hung a huge California state flag above his desk. Officemates 2 and 3 spent a while speculating on what would happen if California just disappeared. They said all we'd lose would be wine and porn. Officemate 1 responded that we'd lose the fifth-biggest economy in the world, and started spouting off random facts about how great California is and how we should all celebrate this day that the US got possession of California. I added, "And screwed most of the Mexican landowners out of their land." He acknowledged that, and went back to the greatness of California. I'm not sure where the conversation went from there, because that's when I put my earplugs in.