I need the stories of Trump's tantrums to start leaking. You know they're happening.

He hasn't tweeted since his "NO COLLUSION" Tweet (which was followed pretty quickly by Mueller going "Oh, did I forget to mention George Papadopoulos, who was arrested in July and charged 25 days ago and might have been wearing a wire?"). He is shitting his pants right now. As he should be.

Fuck her, Dana. No patience for those kind of people.

Monday, why must you be so Monday?

I sent an e-mail to my contracts person asking about PO A. She responded with a comment about Vendor B and C - neither of which are related to PO A. I sent back a note saying I was confused, I wasn't aware of any issues with B and C. Then I listed the outstanding contracts related items that are not yet complete, asking for a full status update.

Her response "Don't worry about it". WTF?????

I passed it off to my project manager and am going to stay out of that mess. Ugh.

I am checking all the legal sites for analysis, and there was a story about how Hasbro is trying to trademark the scent of Play-Doh. Is it Teppy that turns perfume into Play-Doh? Perhaps you can block their application.

Hasbro describes the scent Play-Doh® in its federal trademark application the way a sommelier would describe the "notes" of a fine wine — a "unique scent formed through the combination of a sweet, slightly musky, vanilla-like fragrance, with slight overtones of cherry, and the natural smell of a salted, wheat-based dough."

Is it Teppy that turns perfume into Play-Doh?

Only ones from BPAL. But without fail, every single one of their scents turned to Play-Doh on me. It's a weirdly specific superpower to have.

Oh, man, I never knew Stephanie well but that is a blow.

I'm currently Juror 16. Meep. 32-day trial!

One of the lawyers asked me to explain my opinion on corporations. I was like "do we have that much time?" But I assured them I could be fair.

No questions about Eratosthenes or Al Khwarizmi, though.

I'm sad about Strega. Even though I didn't really know her. She was part of the Board.

Kevin Spacey, newest addition to my growing list of actors with too much emotional baggage to ever again disappear into a role.

They're saying Papadopoulos is an even bigger deal than Manafort. Papadopoulos has probably been singing for months. The idea that Trump personally didn't know about the Russia collusion is looking more and more indefensible. MSNBC is salivating all over themselves.

Manafort and Gates have both plead not guilty to conspiracy. They're still going down for money laundering, though.

They're still going down for money laundering, though.

This is key because Trump has been propped up financially by Russian money laundering for years.

Comments I"ve seen elsewhere about Kevin Spacey:

About fifteen or twenty years ago I knew a woman who was heavily involved in the Austin movie scene. She'd worked on a project with Spacey in it after he'd already become a big star, and she had said the job of one person on the crew was to daily deliver a different "barely legal" boy to Spacey's trailer every day he was on set. She'd said Spacey's predilections for young boys were no secret on the set or in the movie production community, and she'd get amused when the tabloid press would question Spacey's sexuality as it was obvious to her.

Raise your hand if you're in the film or theater community and you DON'T know someone who has a Kevin Spacey story.

Sounds like he's got as much history as Weinstein.

Though, to be honest, I'm a little put-off by the male actors coming forward now with their tales of sexual assault. On the one hand, it is a huge and longstanding issue in Hollywood and Yes, they have a right to be heard.

BUT it's derailing a much bigger issue about sexism that had been opened up with the Weinstein story. The narrative now becomes about Sexual Predator in Hollywood and that puts brackets around the story and closes it off.

The profound, historical, worldwide issues with sexual assault, sexual slavery, child-brides, abuse, assault, rape are SO much bigger and I had hoped that that dialogue would at least start here.

Now it's just about sexual predators in media.