One thing that could make it all better, if those people had electrical collars around their necks, and I could zap them with my mind. Not anything that would kill them or really hurt them, just something that would balance the pain they're causing my mind.
They should film this and show it every year at Christmas.
Gronklies.
Went out to dinner with my parents last night. Finally convinced my mom that I actually can find something vegan at just about any restaurant. (It was Italian. I was in the mood for pasta. None of the pasta dishes were vegan as written. I told the waitress, "I'm vegetarian, and I don't eat dairy or eggs, are there any pastas here that I can eat?" and she said, "Honey, we can make you whatever you want, just tell us. Pasta with vegetables sound good? How about tomato sauce?" I said that sounded great, as long as there was no broccoli, then checked to see which pastas were made with egg, found out the spaghetti was made without egg, so ordered it with spaghetti. And it was delicious.)
and also: xkcd today
Teppy needs that on her office door. (Or cube wall, in the event of an open plan office.)
Oh my god. I need to marry that. (I have neither my own office or cube walls -- 4 of us are in a big open room, with weirdly configured desks that give us a semblance of personal space, in the sense that the desks' configurations make it hard for someone to just walk over and get all up in our business.)
I'll have to tape it to my monitor next to the (predictable) Dilbert strips.
When I was stage managing, we used to want the zappy collar thing for actors who didn't stand in their light or were otherwise annoying. Now that I do costumes, I feel bad about it, because costumes tends to be in charge of the care and feeding of actors.
Also, Papyrus is not as bad as any of the fonts my boss uses when she is trying to do something "fancy" like an invitation. Like ASSCAP, ALL BOLD Lucida Calligraphy. I actually changed that invitation to Papyrus as a compromise. But why do people make everything on the piece of paper bold? Because it sort of loses its power that way.
BUT SOPHIA, IT'S **ALL!!!11!!** IMPORTANT!!!
EVERYTHING I EVER WRITE IS IMPORTANT!!! SO FROM NOW ON I'M GOING TO POST LIKE THIS!!!!
WHY ARE YOU ALL YELLING AT ME????!?!?!!
FOR A SECOND I THOUGHT RIO WAS BACK!!!1!!1
OK, THIS IS REALLY GETTING ANNOYING, ISN'T IT?!?!?!!?