Spike ,'Same Time, Same Place'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
I think it was all of you people. I was sitting still and eating bacon -- not avoiding!
Mmm... bacon.
HOW POSSIBLE?!
I think Grace's teeth are only held in her mouth by plaque anyway. She was super excited that her tooth was loose; she couldn't wait to show me. Then Katie pulled it right out. Wooble. I am sad.
Is she expecting the Tooth Fairy?
Of course. Noah is so upset that she lost her tooth first.
Teeth freak me out.
Consuela, ISTG, I would have stood at her desk and loudly eaten pumpkin bread, complete with open-mouth smacking noises and moans of pleasure. Fuck her.
HAH. Yeah, well, I didn't hear about it until a couple of days afterwards. And really there's no point, she's so... her.
Oh, wait, pumpkin bread! Right, here we go:
Betsy's pumpkin bread (not BHP, an old family friend):
Mix together 4 cups flour, 2.5 cups sugar, 2 tsp baking soda, 1.5 tsp salt, 1 tsp baking powder, 1 tsp cinnamon, 1 tsp nutmeg, 1 tsp allspice, 0.5 tsp cloves.
Add: 1 cup oil, 1 can (15 oz) pumpkin, 2/3 cup cold water.
Blend well, add: 4 eggs.
Add: raisins, dried cranberries, chopped nuts.
Pour into 3 well-greased loaf pans, bake at 350 for 50 minutes or so. Makes a lot, but it freezes really well.
OK, this is weird. I've noticed it before, but kinda dismissed it, but I've still got some serious bionic nose going on. You know that particular smell left on your hands after using baby wipes? Like after they've dried out? Loki smells like that. Or rather, my hands do after an extended head-rubby session. He doesn't really smell like that.
Odd.
Oh Grace! How exciting.
So kids had their school Halloween thing. Franny was a grilled cheese sandwich but claims that she's going to be a hobbit along with her brother on Halloween.
Sifting through resumes at work is good times. I read that study about scientists choosing applicants with male names over applicants with female names, and also recommending higher salaries for the male applicants. The resumes were the same.
I'm now hyper aware when printing out the resumes chosen for interviews. A suggestion I've seen a few times is to remove the name from the resume to reduce bias. However, a crazy number of applicants were Eagle Scouts, or members of Societies for Female Engineers and so forth. They list fraternities and sororities and whether they were members of a football team or cheerleading squad that would at the very least hint very heavily at gender.
As an aside, I got to pull a resume in which the listed hobby was being part of several breakdancing squads.
I HAVE SO MANY QUESTIONS FOR THIS APPLICANT.
I HAVE SO MANY QUESTIONS FOR THIS APPLICANT.
Can one of them be "Bust a move"? Only in the form of a question?
I would totes eat the pumpkin bread of my nemesis. Because pumpkin bread!
I would eat EXTRA pumpkin bread and enjoy it thoroughly, thereby foiling his or her nemesiezing.
Ms Belle, have you tried a ticking clock in the crate? Do they still MAKE ticking clocks?
Kristen suggested moving the conference table out of the way and putting down a large cardboard square in the office for his interview.