My sister hung out with Alibelle in the UK. She was all pissed because I hadn't told Ali her name. Except she was calling Ali her real name, and I had no idea who she was talking about, since I call Ali Ali to her face too.

I have no fucking idea how I hooked those two up together, if I couldn't introduce them to each other.

My sister has also dated other internet people I've introduced her to, so she's pretty okay with me socialising this way. Pays off for her.

FWIW, never play UNO with me.

Duly noted.

It's still so weird to me that you were in my city while I was here -- and the location you were at was less than 10 minutes from my apartment, but since it was a day I could NOT leave the office under pain of firing, and my office is ~25 minutes away, we couldn't meet up.

It was your birthday! And you were having lunch with your dad, I think. It was funny.

I think you should love me forever for sending you a gift certificate to Graeters, despite not seeing you that day!!!

I call Alibelle by her real name most times, but in my phone she's still Alibelle (also, she went to the Eclipse premiere.... please to mock her now).

Sara, did I mention that this year we have the entire week of thanksgiving off due to furloughs?

she went to the Eclipse premiere.... please to mock her now

So completely unsurprising. Ah, we tried to raise her so well.

just so I'm sure I understand the meaning of the term, "code-switching" is using more than one language in the same sentence/conversation, and using the languages such that they're grammatically and syntactically correct?

This is what wordnik says, but I've never heard it this way, but rather in the context of shifting appearance -- e.g., if you're gay, acting "straight" in some groups, and more "gay" in others.

I think you should love me forever for sending you a gift certificate to Graeters, despite not seeing you that day!!!

I totally do!!!

I really want to get back to San Francisco -- it's been a while since I've been there, damn it. For a while, I made it out there literally once a year. Like, from 2001 to 2007, I think, I visited every year except maybe one.

And I miss it. I miss you guys!

just so I'm sure I understand the meaning of the term, "code-switching" is using more than one language in the same sentence/conversation, and using the languages such that they're grammatically and syntactically correct?

This is what wordnik says, but I've never heard it this way, but rather in the context of shifting appearance -- e.g., if you're gay, acting "straight" in some groups, and more "gay" in others.

Oh yeah! I knew there was a usage I'd heard that was more behavioral and less strictly linguistic. Hmm. Interesting.

So I should make my reservations with that in mind, eh Kat? Actually, that's nice, since if I fly weekends, I can still get shit done that needs doing without cost to the whole vacationing thing!

Vacation's been capped as of this year, so I will have to see how much time I have to play with. Plus this whole stupid self-imposed budget. OTOH, mom's already told me she'll spring for the airfare (I think she's kind of tickled I declared TG my own holiday, even though it means she doesn't see me) so that makes it a bit more doable.

Plus I have awesome free catsitters possibly (I adore my paid cat/housesitters/boarding, but it is 'spensive and I can't be as free with luxuries as I used to be.)

That latter definition is how I think of code switching.

Yeah, the code switching I am familiar with is shifting language use specific to company.

Never heard of it in the context of the other, so I think someone should mail them a correction on that point.