OMG, kosability bloggers! YOU MUST CHILL! I'm sure Ben Bradlee, putting out the Washington Post during the Watergate era didn't flip out quite this much...personally, I think blogging is like crime, if it ain't fun, you better get a job. (Not to mention, yesterday's was an open thread about puns that I pulled out of my butt at the last second...mostly about cheese...how proprietary can I possibly feel about that?) I know what this is, honestly...it's what happens when a group of also-rans gets a team of their very own.They're determined to give everyone a say on everything whether you care or not.

I had dinner with Anne! She was kind enough to meet me at my hotel...which is currently hosting a dwarf convention. I have never seen so many little people (of all ages, and their families) in one place. Goodness. Though I did kind of love all the regular-size parents with their little-people children. Way to support and help them socialize, parents!

In other buffistas assistance needed: how do I word a request for someone to have a drink with me that will allow her an easy out? She made some very flirty comments on Facebook but I never see her in person. Even still I don't want things to be super awkward if she says no (which I'm pretty sure she will...I think the comments were an anomaly). I kinda want to be like "look, I'd love to buy you a drink but if you're not interested, quit leaving suggestive comments!"

"I know you've got to be pretty busy, but I'l love to take you for a relaxing drink. What time and place works for you? I hear ZYX bistro has a killer happy hour?"

I can feel my feet and legs swelling from the peripheral edema I get at times.

I get that too, from the BP meds. I haaate it. Also the pinprick hemorrhaging, which is supposedly harmless, but I don't like it.

The way to deal with it is don't walk or stand too much and don't sit down too much.

What's left?! Can't lie down all day. Frustrating.

Strix, that's pretty...forceful? I feel like someone would have to be all "um, yeah, uh, busy. Busy all the time. Yup". (In part this is because last time I saw her she was all "we should hang out" but I think meant it in that not-actually-meaning it way? But I want her to say no if she meant it in a friend way? Sigh). What I really need is a handy group event I can invite her to, but I don't have any (and have no idea when she'd be free even if I came up with one, since she works a weird schedule). But oh, the crushing...

I'd go casual, meara. Maybe a hey, I'll be in your neighborhood, want to meet for coffee/drinks? That way if she says no, you won't have laid all your cards on the table.

But I want her to say no if she meant it in a friend way?

So you are not interested in friendship?

I also have the damn swollen feet and legs. I am sorry to have to report that the knee-high compression stockings do help. The only thing that really helps is getting the feet higher than the heart, which is not a position in which I can get a damn thing done. I have seriously considered purchasing a recliner. Of course, I'd have to get rid of furniture first.

I am fine being acquaintances and friendly, but since I've got a terrible crush on her at the moment, I'd rather not be friends? If that makes sense? Not if her commenting on my FB is going to make me all addlepated and all "what does it meaaaaaan?"