This shirt would be extra cool if you've got an impressive rack.

I mentioned that my feet were cold because I'd worn inadequate shoes. Well, about an hour before the market ended he showed up out of the blue with flowers and socks.

Awwwww. That is sweet! The socks are thoughtful, and the flowers keep it from feeling mom-ish.

You are receiving this email today to announce what we hope will be a long term relationship with City Bees.

Ugh! I know they're having problems with colony collapse disorder, but this would have given me nightmares as a kid. It's taken years of gardening to reach a sense of truce with the venomous beasties. My mom was deathly allergic to bee stings and, as they didn't know my status until I had an allergy panel done when I was 10, probably would have yanked me out of the school, even though—realistically speaking—the odds of me getting stung would have been minimal.

Ha! It took me a second, and then I saw the animation in on the side. Heh.

I know they're having problems with colony collapse disorder, but this would have given me nightmares as a kid.

Yeah, Matilda's very afraid of bees.

Ugh ita, that's a bummer.

I had a big WHOOPS yesterday at work. Got an email from my boss reminding everyone that our merit review docs were all due Nov 1. He sent the email on Dec 31, but it arrived almost 24 hours later. Oy! So I had to stay late and fill out and file those docs.

Bees scared me silly when I was a kid, but I've come to like them now that I have all these flowers in the garden. We always have bees around the yard. Bees and butterflies and hummingbirds.

Oh and Holli's new dude is quite adorbs. Like the moniker Mr. Flowersocks.

sigh. On to grading.

Yeah, Matilda's very afraid of bees.

Oh, dear. I hope regular proximity to them at her school will help with that. That's pretty much how gardening desensitized me. In the 1990s I was all, "Bees on the flowers, ack, time to go in," and now it's more like, "Bees on the flowers, eh, time to weed a couple feet away from that action."

I read somewhere (I know, such a reliable source) that when they set up hives on school grounds, they try to arrange it so the line between the bees and their main flower sources don't cut across kids' play areas.

our merit review docs were all due Nov 1. He sent the email on Dec 31

Thinko, right?

The "guy who always says 'yes'" has resigned. Now, we thought he wanted to stay long term. No doubt because someone asked him "Guy, do you want to stay long term?" However, when later left to start his own sentence, he was able to say "I don't want to stay long term." Transitioning off this project is going to be...ugh I don't want to think about the handover. I'm going to have to watch it extra closely.

It's actually the praying mantis in the computer lab(?) that would have scared the crap out of me as a kid, and up to my mid-thirties. I've realized only recently that I could probably downgrade it now from phobia to strong dislike, but... those things just ain't right.

I nearly planted our butterfly garden plants further from the house out of worry about the bees, but it's never been a problem. The bees love the plants, and aren't interested in us at all. It makes a lovely vibrant, active sound.