between the name and history...it's so fitting.

Also, it makes me think of some of the Six Feet Unders with the wild funerals...

The funeral home sounds perfect.

I'm not sure her family needs to go through them now. It's too heartbreaking.

Definitely. I lost it the other day finding the silver dress pic.

Also, she has two Flickr accounts (that I know of). One of them has some of her art there, too. Do you have access to both?

Also, shrift said she'd moved the Buff Dive button to the top--I assume of the page. I can't find it. Clues, anybody?

So, I was talking with someone about the new show Empire (Terrence Howard, Taraji P. Henson music show), turns out that one of the co-creators is Danny Strong. Yes, Jonathan. Did not figure him for having any experience with the Thug Life.

No way!

Also, shrift said she'd moved the Buff Dive button to the top--I assume of the page. I can't find it. Clues, anybody?

You should see a button underneath the words "To get more Buffista quotes, reload this page or click the Buff Dive! button."

If you can't see a button, then I'm going to need browser/OS information to troubleshoot why not.

Its working properly for me, Shrift (Mac 10.10.1/Chrome). It just served up this gem:

ita: "I got nothing against a boy in mascara, feathers and glitter. Save perhaps my body."

The map is also working properly now, thanks Vortex!

I actually had nothing to do with it, it was all Tom Scola. I just boosted the signal.

Re: podcasts, X-Files Files is probably my favorite of late. It's an X-Files retrospective, and it's actually inspired me to start planning a Buffy retrospective podcast of my own. (Never mind that there are a couple out there already.) Episodes are 45 minutes to an hour long, but I usually have no trouble pausing and picking back up later.

I can't have cilantro without thinking I'm eating soap. I require the Oxford comma in my own writing, and any writing I edit for work because we use Chicago and they call for it, but I merely flinch when others don't use it and would always refer to the appropriate style guide before insisting on it.

I'm going to miss eavesdropping at work. I'm the only FTE in my department now. Sadface.

Moji said the family settled on the Angelus Funeral Home.

It's a bit on the nose, yeah?

So very. I feel like the employees should wear leather pants.

(I want to know if the staff wears leather pants. I'm sure they don't.)

Regarding the GRE troubles, it appears the only risk is being ineligible for big fellowships. Still feels like losing a shot at almost $40,000 ($4,000 a year more than the regular funding over the course of 4 years, then a fifth year at upwards of $22,000), but if I'm admitted (and I expect to be admitted), I'm guaranteed full funding for 4 years (stipend + tuition + health insurance) - it's just a lower stipend, 4 years instead of 5, and comes from the department instead of the university's grad school office. And doesn't have a prestigious fellowship name attached to it. But I've done the math and I can live on even the lower stipend just fine, and if necessary I can supplement with summer gigs, tutoring, and freelancing. And probably doing research and publishing will be more important than a named fellowship.

So, actually not really anything to stress over except that I might have to hurry up and take the GRE to get some usable scores in, but I did a practice test with a terrible headache at 4am today and got 93rd percentile verbal and 56th percentile math, so I'm in good shape even if I don't study, and I plan to study.