Thank you all so much. I did fall asleep, with the laptop actually in my lap. I am sorry that I didn't participate more.

No need to apologize. Our plan worked! Mindless dribble lulled ya to sleep. (plus, I did the same thing)

I'm glad y'all were here. I wasn't. I actually slept last night, yay me. Maybe I'm back on track? I miss caffeine, though, and I still have all that caffeinated tea. Hmm, what was that self-decaffeinate thing, where you steep briefly, pour out the water and steep again? Does that demonstrably work? I don't wanna set myself back, but I have a lot of tea.

I had a mad crush on Hawkeye...

Hawkeye from MASH. But the Avenger's Hawkeye is crush-worthy as well.

OK, I have Done Work, but now I need to make iced tea, and CLEAN THE DESK, so I can get more work done without style guides and file folders threatening to bury me.

READY SET...GO!

Yay sleeping at least, Maria?

there's a very good possibility that *he* doesn't know dick about safewords or other safety concerns when it comes to kinky stuff. It's definitely not uncommon for someone to just think "Hell yeah, I'm getting FREAKY LAID!!!" and not know a damn thing about what they're doing, and not give a shit about whether it's safe.

Well, I would tend to think that actually learning what you're doing (Like not cutting off circulation to someone's hands, for instance) is really more important for safewords--because really, unless you're doing a scene where you want to be all "NO! Don't! Ahhhh!" and not mean it, you don't need a safeword. I've almost never done it, honestly--most scenes I've ever done, me frowning and saying 'No, I'm not ok with that" is quite clear. But even something like that, you could hurt yourself or your partner.

meara, I agree. I thought that was basically what I said.

Glad we agree! :) I wasn't meaning to contradict you, just add more--I'm totally with you on the "He probably doesn't know shit"

I'm totally with you on the "He probably doesn't know shit"

So many ways that applies to most of us men...

Yup, still snarky. The extra sleep didn't help. That should make today interesting.

{{{Maria}}}

I feel way more accomplished today than my activities really warrant. Mostly I'm happy because, after two and a half years in this office with its kitchen stocked with two plates, two spoons, and a truly staggering number of mugs, I finally went out to Target yesterday and bought a cheap set of flatware and a few more plates and bowls. Spent about 15 minutes this morning washing out all the new stuff as well as the mugs in the dish drainer that were still demonstrably gunky, and now we might actually have a halfway useful office kitchen. You're welcome, coworkers!

I want Kate as a coworker!

I called to chat with Mom and she was trying to get my nephew down for a nap. Poor thing has an ear infection and bronchitis. They were watching Ratatouille before nap time and he wanted to talk to me.

He's really more able to have a back and forth conversation over the phone, rather than just answering questions. He said hello, that he was sick and watching Ratatouille and then he was going to take a nap and then watch the move again. And then watch it again.

Then I could tell he ran out of conversation because he yelled BYE BYE! And gave the phone back to Mom. I didn't really get a chance to talk to her, but she's going to call back later. Either during his nap or during a post nap viewing of the movie.