I am Mary Poppins, which is what I could throw together at 7:30 this morning. It looks all right, but I wish I'd thought of it in time to put together a proper-sized carpet bag containing a measuring tape, a brown glass medicine bottle and a compact filled with black powder. And I'm sorely feeling the lack of a parrot head on my umbrella handle. But, anyhow, it was good enough to get me a $2 discount coupon for lunch at the campus taqueria. I'm not quite sure how to stay in Poppins character while eating a burrito, but I shall make the endeavor.

I'm not quite sure how to stay in Poppins character while eating a burrito

Sing!

Wait, risk of death while eating.

You can hold your umbrella with one hand as you fly above everyone and eat your burrito with the other hand, right?

Wow, Liese. That's cool.

Isn't that a crazy story? This is the guy. Mel McGary, he's a total badass.

It doesn't fucking matter what accent any of your employees have or what typos you make.

Yeah, exactly. It's partially why I doubt the story of the product's genesis. It would have to mean everyone whose desk that crossed was willfully ignorant. Instead, I'm going to assume malevolence. Simple incompetence doesn't cover it.

I wish you were here, Perkins. You being with us would improve the experience by a billion percent. Fuck cancer!

Plei - totes! If you're not too busy and stuff. The only plans we have for today are Pikes Place for a number of hours once Cassiepants arrives. Tomorrow we want to accomplish Space Needle, underground tour and the Battlestar Galactica exhibit at the Sci Fi museum. Definitely time to meet up whenever you can. I've shown DH enough awesome pics of Lilybean that he could probably pick her out in a crowd.

Oh! Nicole! Heyyyyyy, I'm free tomorrow! :)

I'm not quite sure how to stay in Poppins character while eating a burrito, but I shall make the endeavor.

A spoonful of salsa helps the burrito go down . . .

I... really can't sing at work. I don't hate anybody here enough to inflict that on them.

(Er, not that there aren't people here I hate that much, but the most worthy candidate is on vacation this week, so I'd just be tormenting people I actually like for no reason.)

Moving Seattle meet-up stuff to F2F thread.

I hope yor day improves, Dana.

It doesn't fucking matter what accent any of your employees have or what typos you make.

Yeah, exactly. It's partially why I doubt the story of the product's genesis. It would have to mean everyone whose desk that crossed was willfully ignorant. Instead, I'm going to assume malevolence. Simple incompetence doesn't cover it.

That bath bomb (or bubble bar, whatever it is) has been in their holiday lineup for at least 2 years, and this is the first time I've read their cutesy "genesis" of it. (Though I always wondered what the hell that name was supposed to mean, and the idea of a transposed L/R situation crossed my mind, but I figured that was silly.) And I agree -- WTF were they thinking?

Not Hec, but I can tell you that Alderson is AWESOME and you should be thrilled, Scola. I wish he were baseball commish.