ashley the furry little dictator

Everyone is reluctant to name the dwarf hamsters that are the new office pets. Perhaps because the office is cursed and they don’t want to get too attached.
Their unofficial names are Mary-Kate and Ashley. Mary-Kate is, of course, the smaller one, due to her current condition (!) but Ashley definately runs the show. I had [...]

my neck hurts from keeping my head down

Last week a co-worker got an offer she couldn’t refuse and escaped gave notice that she was leaving. She kept a beta fish at her desk and bequeathed it to another co-worker to care for. The next morning it was dead. We joked that it couldn’t bare to live without her.
Last Wednesday was this co-worker’s [...]

all i need now is a straight razor and a warm bath

George Eads and Jorja Fox have been termed.
*weep*

rushing around

Sometimes I feel like clawing off my skin and tearing everything from my bones until I’m a skeleton with eyes and fingernails. Then, because I wouldn’t have any eyelids, I’d blindfold myself and jump into the ocean.
It’s been a long day.

want something to read?

Then read this.
Via metafilter.

unrelated thoughts

After spending a morning at the bat exhibit, I would be perfectly comfortable with coming back as a fruit bat in another life. I could hang out in a tropical climate all day, eat mangoes, fellate myself, and then eat more mangoes. I could be somebody’s beloved pet or made into soup!
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I think rather than [...]

email wars

So as Gmail spreads, I don’t think I’ll be giving up my Yahoo mail any time soon. The two things that make Gmail awesome are its method of organizing emails (threads! It makes so much sense!), and its massive space. But I have Yahoo all tricked out (especially my.yahoo.com) and get this: I use my [...]

unfortunate surnames pt.2

Filaccio
Glascock
Dykes
Berlinn+Parris (a married couple who I imagine took their honeymoon in Hawwaii)

on the job

Rex, you must be one helluva man to talk your wife into naming your child Rexine. Seriously. I’m impressed.
In other news, I have 3 more weeks of classes and I haven’t started job searching. I don’t want this to end up like grad school (grad school? Exactly).
My doctor is forcing me to go to a [...]

suddenly i want a new tote bag..

I thought this was a hoax when it first made the email rounds. But it’s true!
I never broke my habit of buying things to cheer myself up (and online orders added the extra glee of getting packages in the mail), I just ran out of extra cash. Thanks to my recent raise (up to [...]