flea, so there's these horses on Long Island, somewhere on the north shore in Nassau county, I can't remember the name. East of Locust Valley, at least. There's one shopping plaza that has this cool life-sized horse that's painted all mosaic/psycadelic (sp?). [link] Something like that.

We are going to have the goat version of that. Because we are goataholics, apparently.

The costumes on Reign are sort of hysterical, especially when you can see the zippers.

But the actress playing Catherine De Medici is terrific though.

She will forever by Anne of Green Gables to me.

RAGE HULK SMASH RAGE

Is it okay if I vent in here for a quick second?

A woman from another department (WHO GREATLY annoys me) just stopped by my office, and said (in the hallway, for all of my colleagues to hear) "you look skinny! Great job, whatever you've been doing."

I said "that's a really strange thing to say to someone."

Her, NOT getting it: "well it's true, your face, your neck..." and she starts naming all of the parts of me that she thinks suddenly look skinny. FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK.

So I say "yeah, if you have to know, I have been sick for a month coughing so hard that I throw up nearly every day. I can't keep food down. I am not trying to lose weight, and I really don't appreciate your comments on it."

She scurried away but you guys I am so pissed. Last year when my company had a health fair day (I didn't attend), she BROUGHT NUTRITION binders to my office and asked if she could go over them with me. I DON'T know this woman! She isn't in my department. I (fairly) politely declined to go over my fucking NUTRITION with her last year and now this?????

Whew. Okay, thanks!!!!

ETA: I look terrible. Like my face is red and blotchy and I can't wear make-up because the coughing and sneezing makes it all run off anyway and I look tired and gaunt. But because I've happened to lose a few pounds, I look "great." We is fucked up in this society. Fucked UP.

Some people, Nanita. Jeesh.

So goats like the, I think it was fish that New Orleans did, modeled after the I want to say cows of Chicago? You aren't doing this city-wide, are you JB? Because that seems like an enormous project.

Hey, since I am taking Fridays off this month my week is half over. That's good for my mood! And now I will watch Sleepy Hollow which will probably also help (note to autocorrect: the distinction between "probably" and "provably" is pretty important)

Dang, Nanita, that is supremely NOT okay. WTF.

So goats like the, I think it was fish that New Orleans did, modeled after the I want to say cows of Chicago? You aren't doing this city-wide, are you JB? Because that seems like an enormous project.

I laughed at this because Twitter has me read "goat" as Greatest of All Time now. I forgot about one of my favorite animals!

When I was in Sydney, Australia, they did the colored bears. [link]

That is really fucked up, Nanita. (Still weird to see your government name on here!)

It's kind of weird to read it! But less weird than folks talking to a Java and it's not me! :)

And thanks for listening. Normally I am not super sensitive about comments on my weight but this person is SO annoying on so many levels. And when she brought those binders to my office and asked if she could go over them with me? It was SO WEIRD. And SO insulting. I mean, I do NOT know her. I see her five times a year in project meetings. So it's just so ludicrous that I am sitting here looking and feeling like death warmed over and she's loudly commenting on my body.

-t, mostl likely, yes, but we're only doing six goats, farmed out (hah) to six different artists. But what I was asked to do was different. We supposedly have a theme of "Grass Menagerie", I'm not quite sure what that means in relation to the goats, our farm to table theme, and the request that I make an animal topiary.

I don't know how to make one from scratch, I don't know where I can buy preformed shapes of a certain size to make my task easier (and will cost a ton of money in frame, sphagnum, and plants), and it's supposed to be temporary, so it's also a huge expense with no returns, especially if I do make it from scratch and someone wants to buy it: it'll most likely be so un-structurally-sound as to be non-transportable. I get the idea: shape chicken wire, stuff it with a vast amount of long-fibered sphagnum peat moss, plant with plugs from a wholesale nursery.

I'd rather buy one of the fiberglass goats, cut out the back and the top of the head, and turn it into a Chia pet.

There are bears along Church Street in Burlington like that. I think one of them is cut in half (I'm not sure I might be hallucinating).

Nanita I hate people like that, you were probably more polite about it than I would have been. I might have told her "Do not ever comment on my appearance again." (with Bitch! heavily implied at the end.