Good luck sumi

Laura, I'm glad you're ok. I really think other driver, witness, and police officer really could have come up with some less traumatic way to hang out with you, but I can hardly blame them for wanting to.

Sumi, RRAAAAAGHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

sumi, that sucks. I hope you find another place, soon. How awful to think you were caught up and then find out you're not!

askye, god. That sounds absolutely miserable. I hope spending time with Will helps for at least a little while.

He cut our walk short after five minutes and has been alternating between licking his paws and giving me a "What is this f---ery, woman?" looks since we came back.

I needed that laugh.

Laura, my dear, I'm glad you are okay and as usual, JZ says what I want to say so beautifully.

D took me for a wonderful Italian dinner and then amazing music, which was delightful. And then I had a PMS/alcohol - fueled freakout, but we talked about it and things are better. I need to learn to speak up in the moment when his joking goes too far.

Right now he's walking the dog and getting croissants, and then he's going to fix breakfast.

Just found out our favorite diner is under new ownership. The same people own several diners around the area and we liked it because the food was good, they didn't skimp on the portions, the prices were right, the service was always prompt. Some of it was frozen veggies or canned veggies but it was a diner.

I should be happy the new owners are all about locally sourced and made from scratch food and one of the new menu items is bacon waffles with maple butter. They also plan on making doughnuts in house.

But the new owners also own a nice restaurant here in town and the service sucks. We've only been there three times because the service is so damn slow. We've given that place 3 tries and Will won't go back because the service was so slow (seriously last time we waited to be seated for nearly 10 minutes and they put us in the empty table we'd been standing next to the whole time).

x-post from Natter:

Home from Paris. Sick. Fall down go boom.

Trip was best decision I've made in a long time. Thanks for everything over the last year, my Buffista army.

Great.

Oh, sumi, that sucks!

Ya know, there are days when I love my job dearly, and days when it's all I can do to not hate humanity in it's entirety. So glad for ya'll (and kitten cams) to get me through the day. If they ever tried to take away our internet we'd all revolt. Today I’ve been dealing with some of those most frustratingly ignorant people in my fair city.

Example the first: "I think I got a fake check, we were selling GS cookies and I got this check from a lady who looked totally American but the name on the check was super foreign." (Reassured her that sometimes people have names that don’t match their apparent ethnicity due to marriage, etc, and a bank should be able to verify whether the check is valid.)

And worse: Male who called to complain that a “black female” stared at him “intensively” at the WalMart. Went back and forth with him for a rather long time before the conversation resolved into me having to actually say, out loud, all of the following statements: “Looking at you is not a crime….being black is not a crime…being a black woman is not a crime…being a black woman in public is not a crime…looking at someone while being a black woman is not a crime…being black does not make someone an ‘assailant’…please stop referring to all black people as ‘assailants’…I really can’t continue talking to you, there are other people needing to report actual crimes.”

I kinda wish I could report *him* to the police, except that at first he sounded so scared and timid I actually thought maybe there had been some kind of assault and he was just afraid to talk about it openly.

Wow, universe, you sure can suck.

I've got an appt to see a place Tuesday morning. Early reports from people who know make it sound like this is a quiet well-managed place if not particularly pretty.