I found this parenting blog, now mostly a FB group, because of Flea, and hence because of Buffy. A thread on the FB group just went off on a Buffy tangent and one member jokingly suggested making a Buffy spinoff group. My internet world is eating its own tail.

Ah ha ha! That's amazing.

I’m having a crappy, crappy night. I get home, and my router is dead. I go to the Apple store to get a replacement, and my debit card is rejected! I just used it yesterday! I go to an ATM to try to get cash, and it still gets rejected. My bank balance is fine; I guess it’s because the magstripe on my card died. SO FUCKING ANNOYING. Everything breaks at the same time!

I'm sorry, Tom. Not fun.

I'm watching last night's Daily Show coverage, and it's not making me feel *better*, per se, but it is making me laugh. "It's a Red Wedding out there."

Oh! I should go watch that.

I am bad moody. I just went off on my family because I didn't want to watch news and instead of just watching something else had to listen to "reasoning" on why I shouldn't get so upset. Blah blah blah. Just let me have a couple days people! I have a ton of funny stuff I can watch and books to read. I'll be ready for current events again someday, maybe.

My skin is ANGRY. I don't know why. It's posthormones, I'm hydrated enough, not eating anything that would piss it off. Some windburn Sunday, but the pissy areas are not from that.

So over it.

And it is raining.

Ugh, Tom! Ugh, Laura! Ugh, Sara!

I vote soothing things of your choice all around.

Some of my coworkers...sigh. They are good at what they do. But when faced with a new problem, completely lack initiative. They have worked with this particular system for 20ish years, I barely know how it works, but I'm troubleshooting it and telling you to try something?bDoesn't bode well for Completely New System we're likely getting before the new year. Just...try. A little bit. Don't "I canna" at the first hiccup.

Is there anything to be read between the lines that "seminal" means "important" and also something male-specific?

As my mother would sometimes say. "Oval. What? It doesn't have to be seminal to be important."

I think I still own ovalworks.com, but it's not being used.

Kinda loving your mom, ita.

You guys! My daughter just wrote a beautiful poem for her English class. It's some technique called a found poem. I assume you middle and high school teachers have heard of it before, but I hadn't. You take a story and pull out lines and plot elements that speak to you and turn them into a poem. OMG, hers is just so evocative and lovely. She's amazing.

That's wonderful Burrell.

I just spent 6 hours taking apart and trying to fix a vest one of my students had sewed. She works without me and made a small but catastrophic error that now means I have spent more time fixing it than I would have sewing the vest. She trimmed the seams so I had to go back to the original pattern and draw the seam lines in so everything would be even. I wish she could work when I can work because she has a lot of potential, and I could teach her how to avoid these things, but this is really unhelpful to me.

Ugh Sophia, what a PITA.

I have so much work to do, but I feel like getting enough sleep is more important than staying up late to work, so early to bed for me.