Company Christmas party tonight. Do Not Want.

It's pseudo-fancy dinner at the nearby convention center--10 blocks away, yay!--wherein we'll sit at a table with people who look at me and say "Tech Support? Oh, yeah, you're in the other building", eat mid-grade catered food, endure speeches from the executives, skits with in-jokes that make sense to other departments, and painfully mediocre entertainment. Bah.

All the youth who died this summer in Chicago?

This is my big issue -- most kids who get killed by guns in this country aren't killed in these mass shootings. Preventing those would only go so far in keeping our kids (and everyone else) safer.

Jesse, I"m wondering that myself. I'm also wondering if he does survive, how that affects things like the VP taking over, signing things, appointing justices, etc. I mean, talk about legal madness!

Speaking of dark-- I just started watching American Horror Story, and I am starting to think there is something really weird in Ryan Murphy's brain to create this and Glee.

Right? Last season I always found myself watching Glee right after AHS just so that I'd be able to sleep. Somehow that worked. I don't get to watch AHS any more since they took it away from Hulu.

All the youth who died this summer in Chicago?

Or, say, yesterday? From the Sun-Times:

Seven people —including four teenagers— were wounded in separate shootings since Friday afternoon throughout the city.

Architecture is not going to help that.

Scandal:

I know this this does not deal in realism, but if the President survives. He will not be in a position to make any decisions about governing for months, right? He was hit in the head, so at BEST, he would be out 6 months. Realistically, we are talking 12-24 months. I have not been worried too much about the VP becoming President because that does introduce some interesting plot tension. I am just hoping though that when the President wakes up. And you know he has to, even for a brief moment, that he doesn't have long-term memory loss for a protracted period of time.. Because I will throw something at the tv if he doesn't remember his wife or Olivia or some bullshit like that.

Ooh, but Shonda would do something like that.

Scandal: I'm kind of hoping that the president will die on the show. I don't really like his relationship with Olivia; she's a much stronger character when she's not with him.

I clearly need to watch Scandal soon.

I was supposed to go get my hair cut and the roots touched up, which was a bigger deal than normal, because it was going to be my first real post-chemo hair cut, but the stylist screwed up the color the first time, and fixing it took so long that there wasn't time for the haircut, so I guess that will be next week.

I went to the funeral today of my friend's mom. I only see him every couple of years and we aren't very good about keeping in touch in the meantime. But everytime I see him, I then miss him terribly. I realized today that it's partly because he's one of my few close male friends and I am missing that male energy in my life.

Seven people —including four teenagers— were wounded in separate shootings since Friday afternoon throughout the city.

Tribune was reporting 10 shot, btw.