January 2012
113 posts
Not a euphemism!
I’m going to go bake some cookies.
This is news. I hardly ever bake anything. I think the last time I used my oven for any kind of dessert was for a holiday party in 2009.
This all happened in the space of a minute.
Jayne: I'm on your lap!
Me: So you are!
Jayne: Pet me!
Me: OK!
Jayne: Wanna see me lick my own butt?
Me: Not...really...
Jayne: Watch this!
Me: I...
Jayne: OK bye!
Job application rant du jour
I cannot convey how much I hate it when a company gives me no information about itself. I am so tired of applying for jobs at “NYC-based media company.”
(It usually translates to “startup website,” but not always.)
General Malaise
*salute*
(It’s a pretty word, though, innit?)
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taff1973 asked: Patsy
doaflip asked: Julie/Julia/Juliette
giddygirlie asked: Sandy
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alllinenandcurls asked: Amy?
ponyinarope asked: Matt
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Meh.
Meh.
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ronbailey replied to your post: Reading confession
I have “So it goes” tattooed on my right wrist. :)
Fantastic.
Reading confession
A couple nights ago I finished reading Slaughterhouse-Five for the first time. It’s always embarrassed me a little bit that I’d never read it, that I’ve read hardly any Vonnegut. When I was too young (8? 9?) I tried to read Cat’s Cradle because it was on a bookshelf in my house and I liked the cover and I knew what a cat’s cradle was, but I didn’t really...
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And then there are days you walk 38 blocks to go to Michaels and you have nothing to show for it but a glue stick two-pack.
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Jayne: Watcha doin?
Me: Reading the Internet. Applying for jobs.
Jayne: I have this mouse toy here.
Me: I see that.
Jayne: Maybe you could, I don't know, throw it?
Me: Just this once. I need to get stuff done today. {throws mouse}
Jayne: {chases after mouse, brings it back.} Again?
Me: Just a sec.
Jayne: Again?
Me: Let me finish this sentence.
Jayne: Again?
Me: Here. {throws mouse}
Jayne: {chases after mouse, brings it back.} Again?
Me: In a second.
Jayne: {climbing behind me} Again?
Me: I'm working!
Jayne: {batting at my head} AGAI-- Oh hey, a ponytail! Never mind the mouse. This is more fun.
Me: ... I'm going to allow this.
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I admit that I don’t fully understand why restarting my computer, or turning my router off and on, makes the Internet work again — but I’m glad it does.
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Dude.
I hit the part of this week’s Code Year lesson where you’re asked to define a function that determines whether a number is one of the LOST numbers.
So if the world ends this week, that’s why.
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Infinite Drunk Ron Swanson →
You’re welcome.
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On winking.
boom-swagger:
polianarchy:
thelalatheory:
Listen, I have heard it said a NUMBER of times now that there is something somehow hideous about winking at people. (I mean doing it with your face, not typing ;) .) And I just want to say publicly and without apology that I vehemently disagree with this idea. Winking is fabulous. My dad winked at me sometimes, like when I was the only one who got...
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Dear Authors:
When I Google your name and most recent or upcoming book titles, it would be in your best interest to have your own website be within the first five — or at the very least, first ten — listings. First page, is what I’m saying. Do not make me hunt for you.
And I should never ever see any sort of error page after typing in your URL directly.
If you are in need of simple website...
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I OVERSLEPT.
I’m not sure how Gypsy and Jayne allowed that to happen.
This will be going in their performance review.
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shelterfromthenorm replied to your photo: AKA the best tea ever.
Hey, how did I miss this?
I’m pretty sure it’s a limited seasonal thing — from the holiday light decorations I’m guessing it comes out in November/December and then is not to be found until the next year. I would never have seen it myself were it not for working near a Trader Joe’s and going there one...
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Help me, I'm caught in a time loop!
Jayne: I batted my favorite mouse toy under the bookshelf and now I can’t get it.
Me: I’ll get it for you.
Jayne: And then throw it for me so I may chase after it.
Me: Of course.
[Seconds later]
Jayne: I batted my favorite mouse toy under the bookshelf and now I can’t get it.
Me: I’ll get it for you.
Jayne: And then throw it for me so I may chase after it.
Me: Of...
So yeah, the first play date was not a sweeping...
Jayne spent almost the whole time under the couch — so unlike him to be shy or afraid. Agent Cooper and Willow (who is now Diane; she’s been rechristened to keep up with the Twin Peaks theme) hissed and growled at him a few times in fits of territorial declaration.
I wonder if we waited too long after the girls went to live downstairs. It’s only been a couple weeks, but I...
We brought Jayne downstairs for a kitty play date
So far Agent Cooper and Willow are all, “Oh gawd, THIS guy again.”
That cultural transition one must make when, after...
It’s proving to be rather trying.
(Sorry. I’ll start sounding like myself soon.)
(I think.)