Oh no, Aurelia! After my dentist appointment today, I went hunting for interview clothes at Burlington Coat Factory, and had an L.A. moment. There was a guy in his 50s with a list, walking purposefully around the ladies section and pulling things. I sized him up as not actually being the sort to wear them, so I went over and said "Are you a costumer?" He said he was and I put on the black with blue and green flecked jacket I had and said "This with a white shirt and black pants for job interviews?" He gave me a long measuring look and said "Yes.... but with a blue shirt."

I brought home the jacket and blue shirt.

Yikes to both Scrappy and Aurelia.

My application to Stanford was approved, so now I need to enroll in a required course for a Professional Certification. I haven't enrolled at a university since we used, like, telnet to do it.

I had an urge to rampage through the threads à la msbelle, but I only got through two before I ran out of steam and gave up. I feel like there's a lesson there. Or a metaphor. Or something.

I'm usually pretty good about sleeping through the night once I fall asleep, but tonight when ND got home I woke wide awake. Dammit.

Go shrift--get yer Ivy League on!

Scrappy, it's always nice to get professional validation.

Flea, I'm glad the interview went kinda well.

Connie, your new neighborhood sounds great!

Yay, Shrift!

Yay, Connie!

Best wishes with the job hunting, Scrappy! See as you're awesome I'm sure you'll find something good.

I seemed to have missed the Flea news.

There are so many things that bother me about this election, it seems pointless to mention one, but man it bugs me. Why do people think being a businessperson makes you an expert on economic policy? Sure they might have some insight on what will help business in a particular sector, but poor people might have insight on what will help poor people, teachers might have insight on what will help education, and so on.

Bothers me especially because Trump supporters point to business success as a reason to support Trump when the man is clearly an idiot.

Maybe it's just frustration that the coverage makes Hillary and Trump equals when Hillary is an experienced, intelligent, mainstream candidate and Trump is basically a joke. If the candidate was Romney again or something, then that would be fine, he was a perfectly good candidate. But... c'mon.

Someone on this conference call just groaned out loud. Luckily I'm on mute; I laughed.

Coworker was out sick last week and Monday. I have been out sick since Monday. Coworker has not actually worked on our project for months. She desperately needs to if we're going to meet deadlines. What does she do yesterday, her first day back in the office? She makes sure I'm listed as writer on 40+ issues, most of which are ALREADY COMPLETELY DONE.

I'm not arguing against some cleanup, but jesus christ, have some fucking priorities.

Yay flea! Sounds positive.

Awesome job wishes for Scrappy and Aurelia. Sucks to not be appreciated.

Yay shrift with the knowledge getting!

Someone on this conference call just groaned out loud.

Ha! Did it show who was talking?

Bothers me especially because Trump supporters point to business success as a reason to support Trump when the man is clearly an idiot.

This election bothers me more than the previous ones too. My horror at friends voting for Nixon/Ford/Reagan/Bush/Dole/McCain/Romney was real, but I didn't seriously consider just dropping them as friends. The people in my life that are enthusiastic supporters of Trump may be former friends before November rolls around because I really just can't wrap my head around it.

Skipping like a flat rock expertly thrown to say: Dad's birthday was great, we successfully surprised him both with all of us being there in the first place and with the cake festooned with 75 lit candles. I am so very tired and being at work feels weird and kind of dumb, so I will probably need to talk to y'all a lot today...after I catch up in here, which will most likely help ground me.

ETA: what I was actually coming in to say was that I am super tied and could sleep for a week so OF COURSE I have a 5k on Saturday. #planning #ReallyThoughtThatThrough