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.

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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.

I am going to count not crying in the supermarket where anyone can see me as the meagre win it is, and call outside finished for a while.

Next mountain to climb is eating. The degree to which I don't want to do that is both massive and dramatic.

I wonder why NBC didn't go with Mockingbird Lane. I thought fantasy was sufficiently mainstream with the back alley success of Vampire Diaries & Teen Wolf and the front line OUAT and Grimm that they wouldn't second guess that call. It was an okay pilot. I didn't love it, but there are plenty of shows not cancelled before they air that I think are worse done.

Sheesh, ita !, that's miserable. Did you eat?

I ended up snarfing two meatballs, because in my head, somehow I thought I was going to have time to cook this weekend, but with events not letting out until 9:30, an hour from my house, yeah, not so much. Gonna have to figure out something better tomorrow.

ita ! continue to be sorry you are in pain.