Hi Allyson!

I am officially on vacation! oNly two days off but that means 5 days in a row of not working, so yay!

And I turned in my self appraisal and 3 mandatory pieces of feedback. Work email, I am not looking at you until next week. Except I forgot to turn on my Out of Office messsage so I better go do that. But I'm not answering anything!

Hi Allyson! Yeah, recent stuff has been a lot.

All this! Very good to see you here.

Goat cheese, sun dried tomato, and spinach quiche for dinner.

That sounds so yum.

My nephew just sent me a picture from the roof of my place in Otter Lake where he is shoveling the excess snow. There is about 4' on top of the roof! I had just purchased a computer for his son, which is being delivered tomorrow, so the timing is awesome. He does so much for me all the time. Like lots of hard maintenance type stuff and never lets me pay him so getting a computer for his 11 year old was a good way to sneakily do that, and become favorite great aunt all at once.

If the guy on this call doesn't stop explaining the QA I've been doing for five years to me, I'm going to throw a brick through my computer screen.

ETA: Oh, god, 15 minutes on and he's still talking, and none of it is relevant to the problem I have.

Ugh, Calli. I mean, is it wrong to threaten brick throwing aloud? Maybe. But might it shock him so much that he'd stop talking? Maybe!

-t, go you with your review completing, vacation having self!

Laura, awesome nephew and gifting to grand nephew. Nice.

I've joined a book club -- my sister (the pastor) invited me. Excahnge:

Me: I am differently perspectived, but I imagine a group that you're involved in would accept an infidel... perhaps simply praying for her enlightenment rather than clutching their metaphorical pearls at her mere presence.

Sister: P.S. I don't think you're an infidel, or even a heretic, I think you're apostate, if you want to get technical;and hey, who doesn't!

Me: Ha, ha, ha! Would you believe I looked up heretic and infidel to find the better label before I replied? I didn't think of apostate.

Sister: I would believe it! And. on thinking it through, I believe that you are both an infidel and apostate! Sally'll send you the link.

I do like my family!

Ugh. Shut up, guy on call!

I have no words! I was hoping you all would have words.

A reporter from New York Mag called me yesterday to talk about Joss' legacy, and then this hit. So I was already in a murky place wondering what the hell I had done with such a large chunk of my life.

I mean, is it wrong to threaten brick throwing aloud?

Not wrong, but it would hurt me more than him, so probably not effective.

And, 20+ minutes later, we're done.

Not wrong, but it would hurt me more than him, so probably not effective.

Wise.

I have no words! I was hoping you all would have words.

There are a few in the Buffy & Angel thread, but not a lot. Mostly, MT's very vague words are deeply unsettling, and we're all noticing that none of the men have spoken up yet at all.

The only words I really have are that I'm glad my participation in online fandom has given me the tools to reclaim media from creators who don't deserve them. Buffy is mine now, just like Harry Potter is mine.