If you go, you get the afternoon off. If you don't go, you have to stay and work.

Oh yeah, fuck that. I vote stay and don't work.

Sucks, Brenda. Ugh.

If you don't go, you have to stay and work futz around on the internets.

Fixed that for you.

Ugh is right. I mean, I could see it coming (obv.), but not the direction I want. I have a very strong relationship with current boss. Starting Monday I will be reporting into her current boss, who I don't know very well, don't altogether trust, and who doesn't really have a great understanding of what the hell it is we do.

With all the changes going on and in development, I'm going to have to be basically playing politics full time until things sort out to make sure I land in a place that works. I'm in a good position to do that, I think (hence all the confidential meetings and shit) but I don't wanna.

We can charge up to 2 hours to picnic time.

In that case, leave whenever you would've left to be two hours early, wait for bob to get there, have him eat food, and then leave right after (having put in your quality time with the schmoozing prior to his arrival)

'Columbo' star Peter Falk dies at 83

God, I love Colombo.

Sad now.

Hah! Love this. I enjoy buying clothes/jewelry while traveling so when people say "oh, those are great earrings!" I can say "I got them in Budapest/Hawaii/Peru!"

I have two pairs of earrings that I bought in costa rica on the cruise with my mother. I think that I paid $2 a pair, but I get complimented on them often. I should have bought more of them!

oh man, we have a previously scheduled team leadership meeting in 10 minutes. Awkward.

'Columbo' star Peter Falk dies at 83

I want to see a cartoon of his casket with the lid slightly open and a talk balloon saying "Just one more thing."

I want to see a cartoon of his casket with the lid slightly open and a talk balloon saying "Just one more thing."

Somebody is totally going to do that.

Perfect.

check out this paragraph from a RS article on Michelle Bachmann. I love how descriptive this is. I need to read the full article.

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In modern American politics, being the right kind of ignorant and entertainingly crazy is like having a big right hand in boxing; you’ve always got a puncher’s chance. And Bachmann is exactly the right kind of completely batshit crazy. Not medically crazy, not talking-to-herself-on-the-subway crazy, but grandiose crazy, late-stage Kim Jong-Il crazy — crazy in the sense that she’s living completely inside her own mind, frenetically pacing the hallways of a vast sand castle she’s built in there, unable to meaningfully communicate with the human beings on the other side of the moat, who are all presumed to be enemies.