Awesome. The minivan needs a new rear evaporator coil for the A/C to work. Cost? $1K.

FUUUUUUUUUUUUCK.

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heh ... one of the big issues in DC is the Metro cars with AC that doesn't work. They run them, during rush hour as well as off-hours, during the worst of the summer. The buses aren't any better - a lot of them have AC that doesn't work and windows that are welded shut (new models have windows that don't open at all). My pet peeve is when the AC works, but the bus driver decides to turn it off (saving fuel? earning brownie points from management? sadism?).

So ... this time of year we're getting PSAs about not leaving pets or children in the car. Why is it OK for Metro to leave us sweltering in a closed train/bus? grrr

Mets win! They overcame a 7-run deficit to win 9-8.

God, oatmeal is the fucking best.

And how the hell does A know exactly when I get back to my desk? I'm trying to make the most of sitting apart from them while I still can. I feel...exposed.

I swear, there is some sort of timer that goes off in my head every few weeks, and then I spend a day or two obsessively searching for a blazer with wide b&w stripes. Yes, another one. I am just going to have to track down the right sort of fabric and have what I want MADE, dammit.

One day of school left.

Please hurry.

And tell me why, for the love of God, the PTA wants to give their teacher appreciation thing at 1 pm on the last day of school, an hour after kids are released, while teachers are trying to grade and enter the two finals taken that morning and do the 18 zillion things on our check out list before we can leave?

Unless it's filet and truffled potatoes with creme brulee, it's not appreciation. It's...I appreciate the gesture, but the timing makes it an annoyance.

Would you call it bestiality if the other species is sentient?

No.

Wait, are you talking about aliens? Or an Earth species? If you're talking about, say, dolphins, and assuming dolphins are sentient and could consent to interspecies sex... then I don't know.