Fruit salad is good stuff.

I have a meeting in 5 minutes, which is too early to call in, but I suspect I'll look up in ten minutes and go "oh crap"! OK, timer set.

Next question: So, I really really liked the haircut that Mac had in the Veronica Mars movie. But all the pictures I can find of it either aren't in closeup or are when she had it up and pouffed. There were a few scenes where you could definitely see the haircut more down, but there don't seem to be pictures. Any helpful suggestions? If I bought the movie, how would I make a screenshot of that particular moment on my screen, if I wanted to have screenshots to take to the hairdresser? (This is still a "maybe in a couple months" theoretical)

I lose control all the time. I am a yeller

Hence coxswain.

But for me in the classroom, I HATE letting the students know that they have gotten to me. Whenever kids say I am mean, I point out I rarely raise my voice. I do say mean cutting things instead, but it's a cold anger.

I sent an IM to someone on a call this morning congratulating him on responding to something that came up without the use of the words "ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME?"

I yell at my kids, but never at work. And I'm working on yelling less at my kids.

I think I may have yelled at people occasionally as a small child. But I can't think of any time where I've yelled at someone since.

I sent an IM to someone on a call this morning congratulating him on responding to something that came up without the use of the words "ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME?"

I sometimes ask my boss to give me credit for restraint in responding to certain people.

Now I'm thinking of the time when a driver almost ran me down because he was looking to his left for cars instead of directly in front of him. So I ended up with my hands on his car's hood, running backwards (because I couldn't get out of the way in time) as he pulled out into the intersection.

I didn't yell then. Even though my life was in serious danger and yelling would have alerted the driver. That kind of freaks me out--I can't yell to save my life?

I don't yell at work ever. Like Kat, I feel it means I lost control and that means I'm not being effective. At home, I really only yell at our pets, and then only when required. Jason and I both came from first marriages where there were a lot of yelling and dramatic door-slamming kinds of fights, and both of us did not like it and tend to be pretty measured, even when we are having a big disagreement. Not that yelling and drama doesn't work for some people, because it does, but it's really not my cup of tea.

Just yesterday I yelled at the thuggish neighbor cat who ran into my apartment when I had my hands too full of grocery bags to stop him. I also picked him up and threw his fuzzy butt out the door. I don't see any of those things as appropriate for the workplace.

I never really yelled except sometimes at the dogs. This has changed VERY recently and my temper is much shorter in general. It hasn't happened often by any means, but I have yelled, much to my surprise and to those around me.

I yelled about a client after I got off the phone and my receptionist nearly jumped out of his chair. He is even more mild manner than I am and was totally shocked.