You all have invisible internet bee cred, now. And dibs on honey, someday.

Yay MK feeling better!

Vortex dinner breakfast party sounds amazing.

-t, the bees are so cool. And very scary, if you're me, but also cool!

I was shocked, on Sunday, when speaking with my mother on the phone, to find she has joined the modern age: she was watching Parenthood "on the internet"

My mom probably isn't far behind. And she's caught the sci-fi/paranormal bug pretty late in life -- she's been watching the UK Being Human, and reading softer sci-fi and paranormal fiction (she loved The Strain ). It's sort of adorable.

backyard beekeeping is so cool!! I desperately wanted to start a hive or 2 but my property is so teeny anywhere i put it would be too close to a neighbor's house :(

Also hooray for MK purring and getting to be home with his person and places that feel and smell right.

The Greeks also had a verb (which appears only in comedy, natch) which I first encountered defined as "to shove a radish up the fundament."

There is an English verb for this very same notion! (The honour of English is rescued, Steph!) It is "to feague". You can also use ginger, or (if your supplies so incline) a live eel. It was done to horses before selling them, to make them appear more lively (which, I bet it would). Failing to feague a horse for sale would quite probably be grounds for dismissal of your stableboy. Possibly accompanied with the declaration "Summat's gettin' feagued today, boy, an' it's yer own bad fortune ye din't make it the horse!"

I know two people who have bees! Is this like the turn two the rest is food thing? Anyway, yay, t, I am super excited for your bees!

I made it out of my day alive. AAA guy totally reached his hand in and did something and everything was fine. AND managed to explain it to me for next time.

The band meeting was not particularly fraught other than with concern that they appear to not actually have any real candidates other than one for the leader who gave notice, like, months ago. It's kinda gonna not matter to me because I was close to outie anyway, but definitely will be gone all summer during the probable hiring and breaking in period.

So. I am home. I am steaming potstickers and drinking chamomile tea, and I should be fine for my early morning tomorrow.

You can also use ginger

Oh! This is the whole thing that happened in Night Watch isn't it, that helped to turn the tides of revolution? Huh.

Also! I got all excited because Zoya is doing this Earth Day polish exchange and I thought it was like ours, but it turns out it costs $4 a bottle, minimum 6, anyway for shipping and the exchanged polish gets discarded, not reused. But still, people might be interested, and you could use the polish box for it!

Owen was crying tonight and told me he felt like a bird in a cage that was never going to be let out. Normal anxiety or depression? Ooof. I'm glad he can put his feelings into words so well but this freaks me out.

told me he felt like a bird in a cage that was never going to be let out

Whoah. What did he mean by that? Like, he wanted to stretch his wings more and do things but isn't allowed to yet by age/permissions/ability? Or?

It sounds self-aware to me, Cash. Not a happy knowledge to have about yourself, though, and obviously going to cause sadness. I think if he were saying things like this daily, or his behavior had changed over the last few months, I would be more worried, but for now I think I would just encourage him to talk it out with you when he feels that way.

Not a parent, but what Amy said sounds reasonable.

Jesse! I submitted a video to the Good Stuff tumblr. My first submission, hope I did it right.

He just seemed anxious. We talked about it and then he said he worries about bad things--getting lost in the jungle, getting left behind, planes crashing, etc. He's amazingly self-aware but he's also learning faster than his emotions can keep up. I'll take some notes and discuss it with his pediatrician if it becomes a trend.

He's got the brain of a 10-11 year old in a 7 year old's body. I just want to smish him every day.