Oh, fun.
'Same Time, Same Place'
Natter 73: Chuck Norris only wishes he could Natter
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
I need help justifying a hot fudge sundae as big as my head.
Justification: You want it.
There.
ED said that if (male) boss couldn't attend the arborist tomorrow, he wanted the (male) facilities manager to do so, because he wanted someone other than me (female) to be on hand.
It took me two days to remove the inferred sexism out of his demand and to see it as "I want one of these other two qualified staff to have glorified babysitting duty so that you can do your actual job that I trust only you to do". My knee-jerk pessimism strikes again and I wish I'd stop.
I need help justifying a hot fudge sundae as big as my head.
Calcium & protein! It's practically health food!
Eat it because of all the poor sad people who don't have hot fudge sundaes as big as their head. Eat it for them, Allyson. Eat it for them.
What Zenkitty said. Also, by "them" I mean "me".
Poor sad people like me, for whom ice cream makes painfully ill!
Coincidentally, my BiL just reportedly declined to have a 6-lb milkshake. So, balance of the universe and all, someone should probably eat a sundae as big as her head.
I contributed to a crowdfunding campaign for an origami exhibition earlier this year at the Cooper Union in NYC, and my "perk" arrived today: [link]
One piece of paper, and the display surface has the fold pattern inscribed.
Now I have to figure out some way to keep the dust off.