I passed on reading it when it was being handed around the office at my last job, because I knew it would make me furious.

It probably will not surprise you that a coworker gave me the book to read, and I'm pretty sure I didn't finish because I reached a point where I told myself to put it down before I threw it at a wall.

Descriptivist unless it annoys me personally is a real thing, right?

Apparently, that would be me. Give it a pithy name!

I think of "whoa" as a synonym for "stop," or at least, "not so fast." "Woah" is more "system overloaded; does not compute" -- as others have pointed out, what Keanu says.

Not seeing why "whoa" can't mean both. It always has to me. It was used an expression of amazement before Bill & Ted, y'all.

Right there with you. I mean, isn't it basically another way of saying "Stop it!" in amazement? Which is a thing people say? (Or said.)

Timelies all!

Got back last night. Had to go to work in the rain, though the traffic wasn't bad at all.(Might have been the 2 hour delay available.)

Contact was still anathema in my youth.

I'm using up most of my grammar rage these days on people who hyphenate -ly words. They're adverbs, people. That means they modify the adjective. The hyphen is for words that do not already scream "I'm modifying! I'm modifying the fuck out of this!"

I cannot picture what you are talking about, Ginger, and now I'm worried that I do that.

A "gently-stirred sauce," for example?

I was picturing "gent-ly stirred sauce" and was very confused.

In case anyone was looking for something to watch on TV tonight, the CW is re-airing the first two episodes of Jane the Virgin tonight.

Apparently, I had put in today as a vacation day. Oof. So my angst about being sleep deprived and wanting to take today off and then dragging my sorry ass in were for naught. So I'm taking tomorrow off instead. Ugh. This is the week that I have to go in on Saturday to cover my boss.