Had I been a boy, I would have been Reza. Not a name that flips between Farsi and English as easily as Susan.

I know THREE Rezas. It's the John of Farsi, isn't it?

I know a couple Rezas myself too.

I just wrinkled my nose at another guy in order to encourage better service. Well, at least I'm not batting eyelashes or modulating my voice.

OMG, from eavesdropping, there's a Jayne hat in the next row over. Except he totally didn't get my "Is that a cunning hat?" reference. Piker. Have I watched Firefly, he asks. Bah. Don't even.

Okay, so I will happily diss you for not being nerdy enough. And me? Still single. Just imagine.

At least in that generation -- every Persian guy I know (practically) is named Reza, too.

there's a Jayne hat in the next row over. Except he totally didn't get my "Is that a cunning hat?" reference. Piker. Have I watched Firefly, he asks. Bah. Don't even.

Do you ever use your trump card and say, "I have a moon"?

OMG y'all our internet and all external servers were down for HOURS! all trading floor stuff DOWN in this market, people are pissed.

Now it's back up and I feel the need to leave early because I have boxes to get home on my commute.

I think I'm close to breaking the copyeditor. Final thirty pages of the ms and she's gone on a frenzy of making everything grammatically correct and in the process, more passive.

Do you ever use your trump card and say, "I have a moon"?

Play the moon card? God, the looks that has gotten the couple times I brought it up to new people. I THOUGHT THEY WERE FANS. REAL FANS.

It'll just be our secret.

Which reminds me! I just got the email that my Serenity keychain is shipping. Too excited.

I think you should pick a really obscure Zoe quote about kicking someone's ass, make it into a t-shirt, and then wait for him to ask about it. "You do watch Firefly don't you?", ita said. And then punched him in the face.

Our AWESOME secret!
 
I am super stoked about the SO`s show. It`s something he`s wanted to do for a long time and it will be great to hear it live. He`s worried about it because they were underrehearsed when he checked in on them. We`ll see how it goes.
 
So you know all that free floating anxiety I had going on this morning? I held a business meeting with the three of us to try to offload some of the stress and sense of being overwhelmed. I was successful and now all three of us feel stressed and overwhelmed! FAIL!
 
And now, while I was typing that, The SO called us all into my office to remind us that it will be a really fun summer of getting paid to play music. Which is true. So that helps put the stress into perspective. I love that guy.

"You do watch Firefly don't you?", ita said. And then punched him in the face.

I am so tempted to purloin that for a tagline...may I?

I made a misstep with my sister. I looked up an old friend of hers and encouraged sis to get back in touch with her, primarily because I missed her and wanted to know what she was up to (it's possible I was a little involved in my sister's social life while we went to the same schools). Turns out the chick? REALLY STRANGE. Drunken garbled sexual FB status chick. Boring chick. Intrusive question chick.

My sister has been pretty nice about not pointing the finger at me for this social torture she's being put through, but oops. I'd so hoped this weird and zany teen beauty had grown up into something fascinating, but no.

Maybe I should track down another of my sister's friends. To make up for it. Can't go worse.

Liese, that's really cool about your SO. Both the music and the calming.