Hey, man, where are my pants? I have my hippo dignity!

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Burrell - Nov 02, 2011 8:03:15 am PDT #4346 of 30001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!

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.


Burrell - Nov 02, 2011 8:05:17 am PDT #4347 of 30001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!

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

sigh. On to grading.


Calli - Nov 02, 2011 8:06:56 am PDT #4348 of 30001
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

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.


§ ita § - Nov 02, 2011 8:07:14 am PDT #4349 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

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.


JenP - Nov 02, 2011 8:08:13 am PDT #4350 of 30001

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.


Liese S. - Nov 02, 2011 8:08:51 am PDT #4351 of 30001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

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.


Steph L. - Nov 02, 2011 8:10:26 am PDT #4352 of 30001
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

those things just ain't right.

True 'dat.


Burrell - Nov 02, 2011 8:12:52 am PDT #4353 of 30001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!

Now, we thought he wanted to stay long term. No doubt because someone asked him "Guy, do you want to stay long term?"

Would be funny except for the strong urge to punch him. Ugh. But better to have someone on the team that can give a straight answer.


amych - Nov 02, 2011 8:13:17 am PDT #4354 of 30001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

those things just ain't right.

They're the most fabulous bugs ever! That aren't iridescent or gigantically rhino-horned or use other species to feed their larvae from the inside out.

Anyway, awesome.


tommyrot - Nov 02, 2011 8:15:42 am PDT #4355 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

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