The dolls are the ones that you can customize to look like yourself (that's how they market them) but of course, you can also customize them to look however you want - and that is interesting too. You know, the choices they make.

I keep missing le n's rants, but whatever is going on I support you being the universe's right hand fist of fate. /wonderfalls

Today's Groupon is for a local beauty school where I was already planning to get my hair cut. I could get cut and color for $21, or a mani/pedi for $17. Just a cut is $17 normally, and I don't have to have color. I can only buy one deal. Help me choose, oh wise Buffistas.

Sue, I'd say it's meds. That sounds like a meds aftereffect to me. But regardless of the cause, the standard destressing stuff should apply, although if it's just medication it should wear off.

Thanks, Liese. It doesn't help that I am stressed about work. but I can already feel the jitters wearing off. Nothing tells me how slow my metabolism is more than how long it takes for drugs to wear off.

Would you like to have color? If so, the cut/color means you spend 4 unplanned dollars and get something you want. I'm assuming you wouldn't get a mani/pedi without the groupon, so it's spending $17 extra.

I am kind of a hardass about not letting groupons make me spend money I wasn't planning to spend anyway.

Damn, I missed le n's rant, but it sounds like it was a doozy. le n, much power to you in squashing this asshat.

In better news, a bunch of Catholic high school students reacted with outrage when the local diocese tried to tell them that SSM was evil: [link]

Go kids.

In better news, a bunch of Catholic high school students reacted with outrage when the local diocese tried to tell them that SSM was evil:

Yeah, Fuck You Catholic Church. Again. Also, way to go civil, smart outraged kids. I understand the Church's stance against SSM (stupid as it is) but I don't get why they'd want to stigmatize adopted kids.

Bearing in mind that this is the institution in Spain that regularly stole children from unwed mothers (telling the mothers that the children died) to farm out to their favorite Catholic families and castrated Dutch boys who had the temerity to bring charges of sexual molestation against the church.

I encourage my wife to schism off and form a Not Evil version of the Catholic Church about once a month.

Bearing in mind that this is the institution in Spain that regularly stole children from unwed mothers (telling the mothers that the children died) to farm out to their favorite Catholic families and castrated Dutch boys who had the temerity to bring charges of sexual molestation against the church.

Also, when Jewish children were hidden by Catholic orphanages or Catholic families during the Holocaust, some of them were baptized, and the official statement issued by the Pope said that, if these children were orphaned, then they should remain with the Catholic families or institutions and be raised as Catholics, rather than being returned to their surviving relatives.

'suela, that article makes me hopeful. The current direction of the Catholic Church disheartens me. Twelve years of Catholic education, and I do not ever remember this kind of intolerance.

I do not believe fish goes on pizza. I feel like a pizza law has been violated.

There is actually a pizza law (for traditional Neapolitan pizza): [link] This confers DOC status, and only pizza conforming to the standards may be called pizza napolitana.

That being said, anchovies are a variation on pizza napolitana. Because they are plentiful in the waters surrounding Italy, it has been used as a pizza topping for centuries. My father makes a wonderful pizza with anchovies, hot peppers, and sliced tomatoes. So good.

Hawaiian pizza has made it to Italy as well. There's nothing wrong with ham and pineapple on a pizza. Just like there's nothing wrong with capers and artichokes either. I'm an equal opportunity pizza-topping supporter. It's all good.

le n, I'm sorry about caveman coworker. It just proves that education can't teach the stupid out of people.

So, I am not sure that the person in question needs to do documentation. That is, the person requested a letter, he decided not to write the letter.

Most people with a shred of fucking social skills could have negotiated that situations without making the person feel like shit. We get letter requests all the time and this person may not have been high on the list. So what? Not really a problem.