Connie, are you suggesting that I am too anemic to be a good minion?

No, but some unremembered activity has made you ineligible to donate blood and help the community, thereby furthering the cause of evil, bwah-ha-hah!

Coworker that has a deliciously dry and blunt sense of humour is finally getting on my nerves. First she texts me on my day off for information that is not my job to disseminate, but she phrases it like it is. Then today she emails everyone for confirmation of an eblast. I was in the middle of a phonecall and then dealing with interns, and she gets sarcastic with me about not having immediately responded with new language, seeing as how I am the unofficial director of my department. Hi, if this was time sensitive, you are five steps from me. Don't berate me five minutes before you leave for not having responded immediately on a time sensitive matter.

Maybe she's still being dryly sarcastic, but I'm half a staff right now and in a phone conference with a vendor, and it's starting to wear.

That's rough, Burrell. That sounds like a really hard way to start the semester. I guess taking time off from work would probably be complicated.

Thanks, Jesse. I have a jar of picked jalepenos and carrots.

Oh yeah, I would have done carrots if I had room in the jar. But maybe blanched them a little first -- the ones I put in beet juice stayed too hard for me.

Hey, so soliciting some home decorating opinions, which of the following clocks do you think would look best for a 15" x 30" vertical strip of pale blue-violet wall beside my kitchen cabinets? (Visible just to the right of top center here: [link]

Art Deco ocean liner: [link]

Art Deco gold geometric design: [link]

Abstract metal swoosh around blonde wood: [link]

black and gold tango dancers silhouette: [link]

TARDIS: [link]

English flag/Eleven Doctors: [link]

blue neon: [link]

Stonehenge: [link]

flourescent green bubble clock: [link]

frying pan & egg: [link]

Bonus option - it's not really a wall clock, but this is a cool abstract 3-D clock and I could put up a small block shelf to hold it: [link]

My hammock time is being disrupted by bird sex.

Although I can't tell the dimensions of the wall, Matt, your first choice of the Art Deco ocean liner seems to be the right shape for the space and the colours seem to pick up your other decorations.

I love each of the first three, and the last one, Matt.

I think whatever-is-good-enough-for-today is totally going to need to be your mantra, Burrell. Definitely make me-time part of that.

I have swam, coaxed special-needs kitty through all his food, fed cats 2 doors down, fed mine, done my nails. And now it is almost 10. Tomorrow, morning run to special-kitty house, the usual, kitty evening, laundry and vacuuming. I've offloaded the cats 2 doors down, Thurs, hairdyeing and packing. Possibly more catsitting. She expects to come home Thurs morning at the latest, but if they keep her to friday, I have an emergency plan.