It was very nice. I will have to explore more of Cincy next time I am there.

I don't get it. ED has no prob taking the Ed director or the Hort Director aside and spanking them explicitly without the rest of the staff knowing. But the Development Director, when she fucks up (repeatedly) he makes a general announcement to caution All of the staff about the bad behaviour without calling out the DD specifically. And the DD's already terrible about general announcements of appropriate behaviour, as exemplified about the use of the exit gate as an entrance, which she totally ignored, because she's such a good driver (um, the polite request wasn't "Please, you bad drivers amongst our staff, don't enter through the exit gate". Also, when she was first hired her car was in the shop because she drove into a ditch in an empty parking lot while changing the radio station).

LeN, I clipped that article to Evernote and it asked me if I wanted to put it into the Medical Reference folder, and I know that's because of all the "sucks to be black and/or female" articles I have in there...

Me and Nunya had an intensive skritchy session/cat massage followed by a five minute defurring "oh god Yes she's putting pointy things on my eyeballs!" session. The AC is on very low and so now she's wrapped up in an heirloom quilt and content. I'm trying to give Ply the same attention before I abandon their furry asses to go to NH for the week. Both of them keep trying to trick me into sticking my fingers in their ears.

random question: did anyone watch the whole season of Nashville? I have 8 eps sitting on my dvr waiting to be either watched or deleted, and I can't bring myself to do either.

I see Kristen Stewart being lauded as an icon of feminism because she doesn't smile on the red carpet.

She does get that those of us who pay $10 for a matinee don't have to smile at anyone on our ways to our seats, right? If she's a red carpet event, she's at work and her work involves less sullenness than mine.

I think she gets a lot of shit that shouldn't come with the game--omnipresent paparazzi, inane questions about her underwear when her co-stars get asked about the moviie (go ScarJo for calling them out to their face--Avengers isn't actually saving the word--did you only have so many non-trite questions to go around, and ran out before her???), but acting pleasant while you're selling a package you opted to represent is not a hardship that's going to get any sympathy from me.

Yes, I have issues with dour guys in junkets too, and in specific if they're being pissy about the property they;re hawking.

When a yoghurt says "probiotic" is there an RDA of good bugs and I'll get it from their single serving? Hell, is probiotic a lifestyle? I;d always thought of it as getting the engine back in gear.

I'm gonna presume fireworks for the noises outside.

Shrift, are you in Lakeview? Are you crowdsurfing? [link]

LeN, I clipped that article to Evernote and it asked me if I wanted to put it into the Medical Reference folder, and I know that's because of all the "sucks to be black and/or female" articles I have in there...

So, did you put it in that folder?

When a yoghurt says "probiotic" is there an RDA of good bugs and I'll get it from their single serving?

No, and not guaranteed. That we need good bugs in our guts is certain; how we can get them there and how we know if we need more of them is less so. There's no solid evidence yet of which good bugs we need, or whether different people need different ones, or what they all do in there, and it's possible that most of the bugs in yoghurt don't survive your stomach anyway. Me, I've never found that eating yoghurt makes me feel any better.

Teachers, talk to me about Common Core. What's going on there?