sarameg, my sister! I am so there right now! Come, sit, we shall be cranky and frustrated together.

ita, that's just the sort of thing I encountered with travelocity. Except more I pick my supposed flights and suddenly at the very end, they go whoops! Not available except at $400 more!

Which is just insane.

I have an interview tomorrow. With four people. For a position I'm not nearly technical enough for. Woe.

I have an interview tomorrow. With four people. For a position I'm not nearly technical enough for. Woe.

Just be glad you're not an Adult Film Star?

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New Matilda pix.

I read recently that the Wednesday thing is no longer true: [link]

FWIW, sarameg, I couldn't find a fare NY to Phoenix under $500 after checking every day for two weeks-- that's over $200 more than usual. So I am guessing demand for certain dates is really high this year. I ended up surrendering my FF miles at a premium.

I found out this morning that my office mate/direct report is leaving! Woe! Although, it was kind of a trip to be the boss when the employee is suddenly all scared to talk to you -- I've never been on this side of it. But, the fact is, I've been kind of holding my breath waiting for her to leave since I started here, so good for her and all that, but still!

FWIW, sarameg, I couldn't find a fare NY to Phoenix under $500 after checking every day for two weeks

Jesus. That's not even the middle of nowhere.

So this is the exciting Mars news that people have been hinting at:

Changing Mars Gullies Hint at Recent Flowing Water

The changing appearance of gullies on Mars within the last few years has prompted new hopes that liquid water may have flowed recently on the red planet.

"The water thing clearly is a surprise to us," Michael Malin, who led a study that found the gully changes, told SPACE.com. "The environment for Mars is not very conducive to water."

Malin and his colleagues used images from NASA's now silent Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) to revisit regions earlier this year where gullies, depression-like landforms on the red planet's surface, were found in 2000.

What they found were new, light-colored deposits that do not appear to have formed from martian landslides, but could be the work of frost, salt deposits or long-sought evidence that water flowed recently on Mars [images].

"Our level of certainty which we can address the question of whether the gully features that we're reporting on were formed by water is high, but not extremely high," said Malin, who has lightheartedly referred to the find as "the squirting gun."

"The evidence is mostly suggestive," he said.

I ended up paying about $850 to go home. I'd figured it'd be around $700+, especially with my preference for a direct flight (the whole process makes with the migraines--I was in a wheelchair coming home from Ja before I even checked in). There were times I thought I'd have to pay closer to $1K for just one stop. So freaking random. But I have a direct flight on Air Jamaica, so all is satisfied. Even though I get in Christmas morning.