Thank you for the ~ma. Nancy and Tom have been excellent friends - the kind of friends who will syringe feed your dying cat on the days you HAVE to go into work. I hope everything turns out to be okay.
I'm so tired I should be sleeping still, but so anxious about work (moving across town in a week and a half; so much yet to do, including non-moving things I let get buried under other things and just unearthed before the move, and now they're gnawing and fretting me) that I'm having a hard time not just getting dressed and going over right now.
It is awfully early for you West Coasters to be up! I hope you can relax some today. Will the move be better or worse for your commute?
Oh, worse. I've been spoiled rotten, living a seven-minute walk from my office; it'll still only be that seven minute walk plus a 25-minute shuttle ride, but I am still bitter. The open office plan when we get there is another whole level of hell, but I've ranted and pity-partied about it so much already that I'm sick of myself.
If anyone has any podcasts to recommend, especially half-hour or shorter ones, I'd love 'em; I can't read in a moving vehicle anymore, so the commute shall have to be filled up with podcasts.
JZ, have you ever listened to "Welcome to Night Vale?" That's a fun series, and is about the right length.
Muffaletta: If it doesn't have olives on it THEN IT'S NOT A MUFFALETTA!
The muffaletta I had yesterday did, in fact, have olive salad on it. (That might have been the best part. Good stuff.)
Muffalettas, or Oxford commas?
JZ, I am a podcast addict, but most of the ones I listen to are 45 minutes or more to match my own commute.
- Welcome the Night Vale
- Slate Political Gabfest
- Slate Culture Gabfest
- You Are Not So Smart
- Skeptics Guide To The Universe
- On The Media
- Wait Wait Don't Tell Me
- Daily Tech News Show
- Cordkillers
- Star Talk Radio
- My History Can Beat Up Your Politics
- How Did This Get Made?
- Current Geek
- Serial (on hiatus)
- It's A Thing (on hiatus)
- All About Android
Oh, yeah, Anne, I've got Night Vale. And I think I'm all caught up on RadioLab and The Gist, and I'm definitely looking for more shortish ones, or longer ones that aren't so harrowingly suspenseful that they'll play havoc with my focus for the entire rest of the day while I'm waiting to get back into the shuttle and hear the second half.
I am Team Olives On and In Everything But Coffee and Dessert. And WRT the Oxford comma, I am on Team Grammatical Situational Ethics. Sometimes you don't need it -- maybe even most times -- but every now and then there will be sentences that need it desperately, and a blanket ban will just harm these poor innocents.
eta: Jess, those are some great ones! I've been gulping down The Gist, which is usually 25-30 minutes, and should definitely look at the other Slate podcasts. I'm also a relentlessly fannish fan of Snap Judgment, which will probably work for a shortish commute because, like TAL, it's around an hour but usually 2-3 connected but discrete segments so it comes with built-in pause points that won't destroy my sanity with all the suspense.
