I know that broomstick skirts are not as ubiquitous as they were when I did my little jaunt, but they're handy to break out in a "this is a cathedral, cover your legs, heathen" situation. And they really do look half-decent with sandals and the wrap thing.

I feel really bad for accidentally hitting a guy in the head with my bag of groceries, but dude, maybe bending down to tie your shoe in a narrow bus aisle the moment a bunch of people are getting on is NOT the best idea?

Surgery~ma, Strix!

I can't tell, ita, is that acknowledging that the communications issues are not so much your fault because of the no capable developers, or something else?

Patting myself on the back - I got the duplicate title to my Volvo in the mail and immediately got it filled out (I hope correctly) and sent off to my sister so that transaction should be actually complete only about 8 weeks after I actually gave her the car. Sigh. But I moved with alacrity when I could, and also got the death certificate sent off to the loan people since the scanned-with-my-phone copy is apparently not enough, AND went to the grocery store and got myself an avocado to have for dinner (and other stuff, but the avocado was the motivating factor). So I think now it is time to sit on the patio with a glass of wine.

YES. It is absolutely nightmare fuel.

I really, really want to watch it, but am going to wait for DVD so I can binge-view it. Which reminds me, must Netflix American Horror Story.

Kate, my parents give us annual memberships in the local Natural History Museum. Bonus is that they are partners with several hundred other museums and zoos around the country, so we get reduced/free admission all over the place. You might see if your zoo has something like that and find out what other museums/science/discovery centers you can get free/reduced admit to with the membership. It's been great to have so many free option to get out of the house, and not feel like you have to spend hours upon hours to get your money's worth.

My brother has (reduced, due to above) membership in the Bham zoo and they go all the time when the weather is nice, and have since the boys were still in the lumpy infant stage. It's nice to be able to go out somewhere 'free' (it's already paid for...) whether as an Event or spur of the moment. And even if it is for 20 minutes that the kids want to play in the fountain, see just the alligators and eat half a burger. Or when Tyler MUST go to the McWane center and all he wants to do is go down the 3 floor slide eighty-million times. That would be...annoying if you had to pay an admission fee for just that.

Yeah, when we had memberships at the NOLA zoo and aquarium, the best part was knowing we could duck in for half an hour if that was all the time we had and enjoy that instead of feeling like we needed to see everything every visit (especially since the aquarium was also an excellent place to go for air conditioning...)

Jilli,

I like your wishful thinking, but the show might not hit DVD. the ratings are BAD.

Glad not to be famous this week. They are dropping like flies.now Maria Tallchief. [link]

I like your wishful thinking, but the show might not hit DVD. the ratings are BAD.

Well damn. I know Cleolinda is amused by it.

Ruh-roh, I had some anger management issues at staff meeting today. There were at least three conversations going on at once as I was trying to explain to a new staff person (who doesn't read her emails, so it's not like I could send her a link to the document and to ask me if she had any questions about inputting data) the spreadsheet I'd created to track volunteer metrics, and another coworker, who has absolutely nothing to do with volunteers or their data, butted in with goofy mocking comments and derailed what I was trying to explain. In the end, all I heard coming about of her mouth was "what you are saying is not worthwhile, shut up". So I stopped talking and let the other conversations continue. Which would have been fine, except I was so offended (another reason I stopped talking, lest I put my foot in my mouth) that I snapped my pencil in half. Agression!fail.

I tried tracking her down during a quiet moment before the end of the day to apologize, but she'd disappeared, and I can't explain why my mood today was so foul that what my mother calls my "artist temper" reared it's ugly head. Can I be PMSing at the end of my cycle?