Oh, man. Considering how today went, I'm not surprised I got a couple of joking "It only gets more difficult from here!" comments when promotions were announced.

So tired. And I need to get to bed early because I'm hitting the midnight premiere of The Avengers tomorrow.

And now I have plans to do dinner and a movie for the next two days.

You're welcome, economy.

Avengers! And a promotion! shrift is rocking this week.

Did Gmail just go down for everyone?

Nice to come home to, after a very long long day: Lots and lots of posts, including some by Holli.

Less nice to come home to: A front yard that looks like this: [link]

I've barely taken any vacation this year, so I'm taking Friday off to see The Avengers multiple times. It's basically a nerd holiday, right?

I just got a ticket to the opening of The Iceman Cometh. Starts at 7pm, ends around 11:30. I may need to take a protein snack.

Hey, does anybody remember the British coffee ads that were a hunky actor reading from the classics? "Are you sitting comfortably? Then we'll begin." I don't know if it still exists. I've been pootling around and so far I haven't found it. Anybody?

Beverly, MetaFilter seems to think it's Carte Noire UK.

That's it! Thank you! My search-fu failed. Hail yours!

Lee, what's wrong with your house/yard?

I rolled my eyes a lot all day long--scheduling, rescheduling, meetings where one thing was decided and five minutes later emails where something else was communicated, right hand knows not what the left hand is doing...but the bottom line seems to be I will NOT be going to Waterloo, IA, which I am perfectly happy about.

But then I went to acupuncture and then to a "Dirty Queer Sex Tour" where people read from this new erotica book one of my friends has a story in, and lots of my friends were at the reading and it was so nice to see everyone. And there was a bit of eyecandy, so yay.