I don't use oatmeal in my apple crisp!

Pumpkin and blueberry are my favorite pies, with key lime running a distant third.

Grrr. I could have been working on artwork for a client for the last two days, but they didn't release specs before the long weekend and have now apparently piddled all of today away with inaction. So I'll have two days to do what should have been 4 days' worth of work, and the extremely short turnaround limits how much outside help I can bring in.

I need to make pumpkin ravioli.

I'm at Panera, waiting for my seasonal pumpkin cookie. That counts for this conversation, right?

The interview that I wasn't psyched about went fine. I'm torn between "I could totally do this" and "they really need someone with an engineering background."

This isn't pumpkin related but: Hiddleston dancing! [link]

I don't use oatmeal in my apple crisp!

I don't always, but I like it.

The interview that I wasn't psyched about went fine. I'm torn between "I could totally do this" and "they really need someone with an engineering background."

You can let them decide about the second, and then decide if you want the job, no? I had the call with the fancy org today, too, and I don't know -- I feel so awkward doing the call from work, I can't tell how I did.

I somehow did not use enough apples in my pie/cake! So it is much more cake-ish. But still delicious! And I'll do better next time.

You can let them decide about the second, and then decide if you want the job, no?

Yeah. It's basically just a contract until the end of the year, so I will feel like a wuss if I don't accept it. But they can't really pay my asking rate, and it's all oily and gassy, and why doesn't the damn Symphony just let me know about that job application?

Y'all are making me want pie.

Hiddleston is a good dancer.

I am fucking tired of this Congress. How soon can we get a new one? Can we hold national special elections?

Am I the only one freaking out a little over the looming, y'know, default apocalypse? My BFF says we're too poor to worry about it, and she does have a point... but then I have some stocks and a mortgage and she doesn't, and I'm freaking out a little. My sister is freaking out about her stocks, wondering if she should sell, or pull out everything and put it in CDs, she's asking me like I know anything! I wish I knew more about the actual financial details behind this sort of thing, maybe I'd feel more like I knew what to do.

The latest I've heard is that the Treasury has enough on hand to cover the interest on loans, so they wouldn't default. But things like, you know, Social Security would be in jeopardy.

I have no idea what it would do to the stock market.