Congratulations, Nilly! The world can only be made better by Nilly children.

This is the Nazi version of One Tree Hill, eh?

Adolescent drama among Hitler Youth?

Being yelled at as a kid just made me pathologically conflict avoidant.

Being yelled at as a kid just made me pathologically conflict avoidant.

I'm pathologically conflict-avoidant even after not being yelled at as a kid.

OK, I am now officially on vacation. Eleven days without having to deal with The Nemesis, yay! (I shall ignore all the other unpleasant stuff I shall have to do in the next week...)

Being yelled at as a kid has not made me terribly conflict avoidant but, if someone yelled at me now, I'd walk away from them or, I hope, have the presence of mind to go very quiet and stern with them. Probably walk out of the room though.

After 5 days of no accidents, puppy has had two accidents today. In the same place and just pee but now I'm feeling a bit, like, "ack a puppy! I don't know how to raise one!" I'm used to accidents from senile incontinent dog who is not going to learn anyway so you just clean up after and move on. This baby can learn not to pee where she shouldn't. But we have to learn how to teach her.

Being yelled at as a kid just made me pathologically conflict avoidant.

Well, I guess I don't have to resent my parents for being nice to me, then.

The couple sitting next to me at the bar just ordered two Manhattans—on the rocks. That’s just WRONG, isn’t it?

After 5 days of no accidents, puppy has had two accidents today. In the same place and just pee but now I'm feeling a bit, like, "ack a puppy! I don't know how to raise one!" I'm used to accidents from senile incontinent dog who is not going to learn anyway so you just clean up after and move on. This baby can learn not to pee where she shouldn't. But we have to learn how to teach her.

I feel this way about Noah.

oh my dog y'all [link]

Heh, Kat.

msbelle, I was hoping that would be a picture of your dog.

YAY le nubian!!

Ugh, Juliebird. I have no answers, but looking for a new job is always a good call in my book. Maybe there's nothing right now, maybe you find your dream job.

It's almost worse than having the ED of doom who would choose a new victim to kick from month to month, because then I was on my own and ordered my days as I saw fit and knew that the person who ocassionally kick me was a douche-nozzle with no logic.

I asked a coworker recently why there seemed to be tension in the ranks, and she replied that it was because there was no common enemy to unite us anymore. Which makes such total sense since we bonded so fiercely during the Snowpocalypse of 2011 with the storm cleanup, and gosh isn't our ED a fucktard?!

My biggest fear about changing jobs is that I've gotten so good at the nuances of this place that, while I may look competent, at a new place I'll be floundering like a new college graduate.

OMG indeed, msbelle.

I'm scared to see the new Judd Apatow movie because I feel like he stole some of it from my life.

Saw Skyfall today. What? Why? What? Huh? And that all is just the response to Javier Bardem's hair.