Kathy, 2.5 years, really? Congrats on the MLIS! Sorry for your parents' illnesses, I hope they continue to do well. Aren't the UK and Ireland great; I went in 2011 and this year and both trips were marvelous and boy are my credit cards heavy now.

Jesse, I'd pay $5 for a salmon dinner. That sounds good. That reminds me, I'm supposed to be cooking for myself and eating healthier food now.

looks at plate of nachos

Well, maybe tomorrow.

I finally felt like some real food tonight. Later, or tomorrow, I might even have some vegetables.

I am Very Proud of myself for mostly following the plan for which I bought all of the groceries (except this salmon) on Sunday. I'm literally just committed to eating the food I already bought.

Kathy!!!!!!! Nice to see you around these parts.

Yay Kathy! I think the last I remember from you was when you were early in the MLIS -- huge congrats on finishing it! And great to hear about travels and moves, if sorry about the health issues. It's good to see your pixels again.

Kathy! ::tacklehug::

Right now I am watching Band Candy. And it's awesome.

I've always thought we could take something viral if we put our minds to it.

Standing. Right. Here. Please, let me unleash my 26k+ followers on Tumblr. I am all over this.

It's so good to see everyone again. The reason is something I still can't wrap my head around, but seeing everyone post is nice. This place has given me people who I can't even call best friends, because they're family. You folks have given me pep talks, sanity checks, and helped me get a book deal. I cannot imagine my life without you.

In the "no, really, pile more things on" category: I found out at 7am today that I needed to book travel for the last-minute-approved trip to the Copenhagen office. That I thought wasn't happening. I fly out on Saturday, and will be gone for a week. Tomorrow is the work deadline I've been floundering toward for a month.

Hugging everyone back!!

Oh, Band Candy...the ep that got me to return to watching Buffy. I stopped midway through S2 when I saw the promo for the next ep where Buffy lost her virginity. "Oh, how cliched!" I thought, and didn't tune in again.

Um, oops?

I stayed away until the summer before S4, when a Band Candy rerun caught my eye.

Go do something else away from patient care and come back in X amount of time adn we'll see if you still are fit to work with living beings.

This is genius.

And I'll reiterate the love for this place and you people. I don't post nearly as much as I'd like, but I'm nearly always around.

And I'm so comforted that you are, too.

I was looking at something and questioning the font choice and only had the tiniest millisecond of thinking I was being crazy and ridiculous before remembering how many of you would have either agreed or at least engaged in a lively discussion about it. And picking extraneous cilantro out of my lunch I found myself feeling reminiscent of that particular kerfuffle. I love you guys. (And hate cilantro).

Standing. Right. Here. Please, let me unleash my 26k+ followers on Tumblr. I am all over this.

muwahahaha! I mean, yes, it seems likely we could take something viral if we wanted to.

We have lots of writers here. We have a worthy cause. We need a slightly less vague plan than the one I came up with, perhaps.