Just FTR:

Roundabouts make the baby American Jesus cry!

Not if you call them rotaries, like god intended.

Man, it's a catch-22. They see me hesitating, even when I have the right-of-way, because their "body" language is scaring the bejesus out of me, and they gun it. But I'm deathly afraid of being the aggressive one lest they be the jerk who doesn't yield.

My boss will be firing our idiot seasonal tomorrow. Thank the lords. I thought our high/drunk freshman last year was bad. What's awful is that I think this kid is low-functioning Aspergers. He needs such explicit instructions. Not just hand-holding, but spoon-feeding. And we need someone in the position who is independently competetent and self-sufficient.

He needs to go far far away, and yet I'm still wondering what the liability is for firing someone with a (potential) (undisclosed) cognitive disability. I mean, either way, he is unable to perform the job as advertised, but I still wonder.

And that's when so-called jargon like "let's take that discussion offline" is so handy!

I...am not so jargony. But again, subtle doesn't always work in my workplace. Scientists and tech people do tend to bend to a type.

Marylanders don't get roundabouts. Which is why I think some fairly recent ones are going away.

My friend from Boise found the traffic here confounding as a passenger. But she's headed to Boston, where her parents are renting a car (her brother is getting married in Ducksberry?) and I think they are going to end up shellshocked. I find the DC drivers ridiculous, but I can deal, now that I know the stupidity. I don't think they are at all prepared for this.

It was a good visit. Her daughter N LOVES Pumpkin, to the Elmira point. And I hooked her up with the neighborhood girls and there were many tears upon the last of the 3 playdates. G, 5.5 and N, 8, exchanged addresses and really sweet cards. G's mom said she asked incessantly about N today. It was a true meeting of long-lost sisters (they even look like they should be sisters, uncannily so.) G wants to move to Boise now.

My students use “YOLO” all the time. Seriously. It’s their favorite acronym. One of them tried to let me use it as one of her new vocab words.

Duxbury. Not Ducksberry, but I LOVE THAT.

getting ready to go from a 4 way stop and an approaching car that looks like it might blow through? That is why I have a GD horn and I will LAY ON IT! I might all yell MY TURN MF, MY F'IN TURN! and shake my fist. Ford Focus OF DOOOM!

at the grocery store this evening, I did a msbelle. the person blew through the stop sign at the entrance to the store. She had her windows wide open. I yelled into her truck: "you are supposed to stop!"

Earl Grey does not make good iced tea, but I kind of figured that and made it anyway. It'll do for the time being.

I love roundabouts. I think I call them traffic circles, though.

I don't understand the roundabout and I won't respond to it.

Duxbury. Not Ducksberry, but I LOVE THAT.

Same dif!

I was walking out across the street yesterday at a place where the cars don't think they need to stop at the red light, and there happened to be a dude on my left (toward the cars), so I ended up saying to him, "THEY HAVE THE RED LIGHT." I would have just said it to the air, honestly. Because they HAVE A RED LIGHT.