I'm wondering how I got my notion! Did I just make it up? WTH?? (which means Why the hoodie, right??)

(which means Why the hoodie, right??)

Hee.

the car has a snow-mowhawk

Those are fun--especially when it starts blowing in the face of the SUV that's tailgating you!

especially when it starts blowing in the face of the SUV that's tailgating you!

yeah, if we were going to drive at all today, I'd have pulled out the broom and gotten it all. I've always cleared off the top, but PA has a new law that makes it illegal to drive with snow on top of your vehicle - even trucks, which is awesome - and there's a big fine to make it stick.

How a cat named Zoe earned several advanced degrees and became a psychotherapist

A diploma doesn't necessarily indicate expertise. Zoe D Katze, Ph.D., C.Ht., DAPA, for example, has a wall of diplomas, despite being unable to sign her name. She doesn't have the opposable thumbs for it.

Steve Eichel, PhD, ABPP, who I can assume earned his degrees the hard way, got upset with the amount of credentialing being given out to uneducated hacks. These degrees were concentrated in the less rigorously controlled professions, such as hypnotherapy and diet counseling, but could branch out to more generalized degrees – hence the ‘Ph.D.' diploma clutched in the hirsute Doctor Katze's claws. He wanted to prove that diploma mills were happy to give out diplomas to anyone, giving easy credibility to scammers and a worthless piece of paper to people who wanted to seem educated. All he needed was some money.

Which doesn't mean the process didn't take some discipline. One doesn't get a Ph.D. overnight. Eichel started with a crappy little hypnotherapy organization, comprised mostly of people without formal academic backgrounds, and ponied up the application fee for certification. After a few of those certifications piled up, he went after bigger prey.

Eichel applied for a degree (for Zoe) from the American Psychotherapy Association, an organization of which he'd been a member. They requested a listing of academic credentials, and he went ahead and made a few up, including doctorates from mail-order colleges and a position at "Tacayllaermi Friends School" – Tacayllaermi is "I'm really a cat" spelled backwards. To be fair, I think only Zatanna would catch that. The APA certainly didn't. They made her a Diplomate.

Pretty Zoe D Katze, Ph.D., C.Ht., DAPA is pretty!

We had a bomb scare at the building next to ours. (It's nothing and over now, so no worries).

No one wants to get back to work.

Poor Maria! I was tracking that on FB all evening, when I went to bed, and then went I woke up. Gah.

Jesus Christ. The local newscasters just interrupted the woman giving the business report from NY to inform her that all the guys in the newsroom find her very attractive and pay extra attention to the business report. What the everloving fuck?

Barf.

(which means Why the hoodie, right??)

snort.

there's a big fine to make it stick.

I am so glad of that. I hate when people only clear off enough snow so that they can see, but still leave stuff on that messes with you.

According to at least one person's mom WTF=Wow that's fantastic.

Wasn't that Phil's interpretation on Modern Family?