In New Elementary School news, the mother of one of the kids in Dillo's class was a local TV anchor for 15 years

My friend's stepson's mother is a local TV anchor. She does (or did?) mornings on NBC, which put a little damper on my friend's watching of the Today Show....

Loooong day. In which I got rather short with one of my bosses and made her do the work (I've been specifically told by my other boss I cannot bill to this project, so I pushed back. It's been a long month. But wow, Sara, way to incite ill will.)

In less annoying news, I ascertained that last night wasn't a one-off, Pumpkin really does have some physics reckoning skills: whirling a fake jillifont on the end of a string, Loki spins until he gets dizzy and falls over. Pumpkin, on the other hand, does a few swivels and then figured out that if she attacked the center of the spinny, she could nab the prize. I swear to whatever, you can see the bits flipping in her head (cause she's well past cogs.) Scary smart, this cat.

he was trying to glean a "true performance" out of them. To seek some inner depths or darkness or whatever

I saw this episode of Community. It was pretty clear who we were supposed to judge.

I had so fucking much to do today, and then I just reached out to BN.com because I don't understand the scope of the search on the Nook (I could have sworn it used to be full text...maybe that was on the Nook that broke?), but the tech who answered my chat request was sufficiently stupid that I felt no guilt signing off with

It’s clear that either you don’t understand the question or you don’t know the answer, or both. I’ll try again. Thanks.

worked over an hour at home tonight. bleary, hate that. admin job should not be work at home too.

McPhee continues to be amazing.

Annoying co-worker was way out of bounds in so many ways today I am boggled that no one above her calls her out on this shit.

Hey - did y'all know jello will mold, even in the fridge. Yeah, be happy you don't live with me. I am been cleaning challenged it is becoming painfully obvious.

Someone, please find proof that this is a joke [link]

I knew jello could mold!

My friend/neighbor's dad died last friday (I just found out today, she plays it reaaaallllly close): [link] I'm glad we haven't missed the remembrance, I think it would mean a lot to our friend to show up.

msbelle after some quick Googling I'm going to say it's real. The guy in the video - Chuck Missler has an Urban Dictionary entry and Rational Wiki entry based on that video.

good lord people are crazy.

you people never told me what color dress to get, so pink, right?

Yes, pink. I thought I said, but I must have just been thinking really loud.

Ugh, driving Emmett home from his baseball practice (he has a tournament this weekend) and there was a massive traffic jam on the Bay Bridge. The sign which usually says: 10 Mins To Dwntwn SF, instead said: 52 Mins to Dwntwn SF.

But we're home and fed.

Emmett got his STAR (State standardized) testing results. He scored Advanced (highest) rating on English, Life Science, Earth Science and World History, and had a Proficient (second highest) score on Geometry.