Nothing~ma and easy-anesthesia~ma to you in abundance, Burrell.

Love Scrappy's husband.

I had a dream last night in which Hec and I somehow acquired a kitten, mostly white with little brown freckly patches all over (sort of an appaloosa kitten); it was very charming and engaging and hypoallergenic and we were quite happy. Then we left to go visit my mom, who had acquired a bulldog-pekinese crossbreed; it looked like a shaggy squash-faced teddy bear and was easily the most adorable imaginary animal I've ever seen inside my brain. Now I need to go exploring the internets and see whether any such crossbreed really exists, and whether it's anything like the dream!pup.

Last night while I was here, chatting with y'all about ADHD and such, CJ was working at the dojo and the instructor team all took the Personality Type test. CJ came up ESTP. Part of the description is...

The ESTP often has trouble in school, especially higher education which moves into realms where theory is more important. The ESTP gets bored with classes in which they feel they gain no useful material which can be used to get things done. The ESTP may be brilliantly intelligent, but school will be a difficult chore for them.

Great.

Jesse! Have you been using my credit card? Chase says someone "in Africa" tried, so I think we all know what's going on here.

Dag, brenda - you know I work for a nonprofit! You can't cover just one or two tequila shots??

So I haven't even gotten on the long flight home yet, and I'm already upset about the long layover I have in New York tomorrow morning. I can't decide if I will be more or less upset if the immigration line means I need all of those hours.

Oh! My route home took me past your house yesterday. I waved. Did you feel it?

Yes! Next time, if you are feeling up to it you should stop by and come in.

Thanks for the good vibes and well wishes, everybody. It's a type of cancer that doesn't metastasize, so as long as we caught it before it got too invasive, surgery should be simple. It'll be in a couple weeks, right after the semester ends. As for anesthesia, turns out I'm very sensitive to it, so it can make me pass out. Luckily it takes a much smaller dose to medicate the area too. But still, makes me nervous when I know they need to use it.

Good luck, Burrell, I hope it goes smoothly.

I ran away from zombies up in the woods this morning: the dog and I both got soaked and muddy since it's raining. But it was still fun.

... and now my fingers have gone numb and yellow, damn it. No more Claritin.

Travel safe, Jesse!

What Consuela said, Burrell. Fingers crossed for an easy procedure.

Get home safe, Jesse!

I am having an oatmeal dilemma. I've made two batches of cookies this weekend, and not shared. I brought two cookies to work today, one for second breakfast, and one for tea. But the remaining one really really wants to be eaten for elevenses.

I had oatmeal for breakfast.

I'm assuming the weather in NY next weekend will be leather jacket and thick tights weather. Seem fair? My outfit for the funeral will depend on which coat I have to not clash with.

How strictly do you guys follow the etiquette of black at funerals?

How strictly do you guys follow the etiquette of black at funerals?

I go for a primarily dark palette (black, brown, grey, dark green, etc.). Although I think a white shirt with dark skirt/pants is fine.

Ugh. One of my jobs at work is to find issues and write them up. We are then supposed to follow up and try to close them within a certain number of days. Sometimes that happens, often it takes much longer. I'm basically being told "close that issue and write a new one with the same info so our statistics are better" which I am philosophically opposed to. Ugh.

How strictly do you guys follow the etiquette of black at funerals?

Hardly at all. I think as long as no one's first thought is "festive" when they see your outfit, you're fine.