ZOMG, my library is having a Buffy Party!

Wow, how awesome is that! I loved this:

There will be a Q&A with Buffy Season 8 editors Scott Allie and Sierra Hahn, Buffy trivia, Buffy "Hush" drawing charades, Buffy birthday cake, and a vampire tattoo station.

If Prince came door to door for the Jehovah's witnesses (he is a JW) would you listen to his pitch if he'd sing something for you? If so what song, or songs would you choose?

Shit, I'd convert.

Shit, I'd convert.

No, you have to play hard to get so he comes back and sings some more.

Okay, enough stinky office. I wonder if I can go home.

Excellent strategy! I suck at hard to get though.

I know that at some Orthodox Jewish weddings the guest do skits and stuff to entertain the bride and groom. Maybe the cow was there for entertainment?

Except, my doc said it was bacterial, not viral.

Um, yeah. Basically if there's any bacteria on your hand and you touch your eye? Pinkeye. So Jesse, 'fess up--did you forget to wash your hands?

Oh, that fills me with really inappropriate glee.

Not just you! (Hey Crazy!Mom...maybe your daughter doesn't like the way you cut her hair???)

Yawn on the rudest cities thing, though it tickles me to see both Orlando and Vegas on the list. Maybe being surrounded by tourists all the time makes people a little punchy, eh? (And poor DC - it's really not their fault they have to share turf with Congress. The real locals are wonderful people.)

NYC and LA probably do have more rude people than anywhere else in the country on sheer numbers alone. We have more every kind of people than anywhere else in the country.

I need to motivate and apply for some jobs. But all I want to do it sit around and knit. I did run some errands and cleaned a bit in the house. ugh.

Tommy - I'm sure the Nyquil prompted an ID check. When Kelly and I were both sick over the summer, we sent CJ to the store to get cough meds and they refused to sell it to him since he is under 18.

Maybe being surrounded by tourists all the time makes people a little punchy, eh?

Whoo boy, does it.

People at the end of the alphabet are more impulsive buyers than those at the front

People waiting in line for days for the latest must-have product are probably a bunch of Zimmermans, Youngs, and, yes, Wilkinses, according to a truly bizarre new study. It's apparently all the fault of elementary school teachers overusing alphabetical order.

This is one of those studies that seems way too ridiculous to be true, but let's at least consider the facts. Researchers tracked consumer patterns in a variety of situations. They consistently found that people whose last names came later in the alphabet tended to buy items far more quickly than those earlier in the alphabet, and the effect got stronger and stronger the later a person's name appeared in the alphabet.

Intriguingly, for married women, the name that mattered was their maiden name, suggesting that the underlying cause for this is created earlier in life. The researchers speculate that the use of alphabetical order during people's childhoods creates a sense in later alphabet kids that, if they want to be first in line for something, they're going to have to make it happen themselves. That explains the later tendency for impulsive consumption, according to the researchers:

The idea holds that children develop time-dependent responses based on the treatment they receive. In an effort to account for these inequities, children late in the alphabet will move quickly when last name isn't a factor; they will 'buy early.' Likewise, those with last names early in the alphabet will be so accustomed to being first that that individual opportunities to make a purchase won't matter very much; they will 'buy late.'"