Glad you're ok, connie.

Hil, Patty Cake bakery in Columbus is the best vegan bakery ever. There is also a vegan restaurant called Benevelance.

I'm totally, totally skipping.

Congrats on Luna, Callaluna!

Also? Just returned from one of the Funnest. Cons. Ever. [link]

It wasn't perfect. They did A LOT of mistakes. But God dammit, it was fun, my friends are wonderful (guess who has two thumbs and 10 inches pile of Sandman and Buffy comics to read? This girl! My seminars are so going no where this year, but I Don't Care), and apparently the male geeks are loving me, and something needs to be done about it.

I may be tired now. My spelling may have been last seen in Tel Aviv. My hair might be fluffy in that horrid climate. But oh, it was fun.

Okay, this has been nagging at me for a couple of days so I'm going to throw it out there and see if maybe one of you can figure it out and let me move on to thinking about other things - like my cross-country move tomorrow. In a Entertainment Weekly online story, the executive producer of the series 24 was reacting to fan discontent about yet another character being a double agent and said

'I understand how it appears [to be] tiresome and lazy storytelling, but I really would betray anyone to try to sit in our chair and figure out how to do 24 continuous, real-time episodes, without using certain devices,'

The word betray in that context makes no sense to me but I keep thinking there is a word with a similar sound that does mean dare or challenge - yet I can't come up with it. Can someone help me let this go?

The closest I can think of is defy.

lcat, good luck and safe travels for your move. I'm with Hil about the word being defy. I think that executive producer has betrayal on his/her furry little brain.

ETA: correct word of my own. Gah, the gronk is mightier than the keyboard.

I'm trying to decide if I should go into the office today. I've got nothing I really need to do -- there are no new job ads posted, and my advisor just emailed to cancel our meeting, and I'm kind of at a point in my dissertation writing where I'm stuck until he answers a few questions for me. There's a colloquium that looks interesting, but after the colloquium, everybody will be going out for Italian food for lunch, and I'll end up looking anti-social when I don't go. I'm kind of tired and not feeling great, but if I had a reason to force myself to get dressed and go work, I could. I just can't come up with a reason.

Who's the double agent?

I quit watching a while back and now can't be bothered to get back into it. I love Jack Bauer but the Katee Sackhoff storyline was driving me insane.

But you know, better than killing would be brunch with Buffistas ... I'm just saying

Nods with Toddson. Ya, let's put a hush on the group talk of killing spree, especially of folks in office. Conspiracy. Yikes. Bad. Let's rise above the various idiots who made the news after healthcare passed.

Just blowing off steam verbally. It's not an organized movement.

OK. I have had another hour or so of sleep, and I'm eating matzo brei. I might be feeling more awake now.

Where you moving, lcat?