I just entered this morning's time sheets, even though they aren't due for a week.

Time to go look for FCMs

I have some deco and booky links at my blog, msbelle, dana, and think jesee was bored today? (also, please post: my poor blog feels very lonely :( )

I will prolly post some more tonight and tomorrow, because I tend to clean in spurts.

Not that I am obsessed with looking at shit I can't afford right now (or, in some cases, ever.)

I was bored until a friend came over! Now I'm done working and wish I had some Bailey's or something to put into hot cocoa. I think I'm all out.

NYT readers dislike the phrase "no problem", and I immediately worry about my speech choices.

I say it, and I still hate it.

"no problem",

In place of "You're welcome"? I can see that, but I'm certainly guilty of saying "No problem."

"Not a problem" is the one that really gets to me.

I say it all the time, but not in response to Thank you. I say it when someone asks me to do them a favor.

I only mean I don't like it (yet still say it) in response to "Thank you."

That's great news, msbelle and mac!

And if things quiet down this afternoon at work, I'll go read and post on Erin's blog to cheer it up.

I have a slowly gathering doomy feeling that I may end up an American Episcopalian before my life's end. All the juicy doctrine and tradition of my own church, plus full agency for women.

But, shitshitshit, I love my parish so very dearly, and no place else will ever be quite so deeply home (it doesn't hurt that the pastor pulled me aside once and said quietly, "You should know that I spend a lot of time angry at the Church too, probably for all the same reasons you do"). And I firmly believe that the bigger church is just WRONG, violating its own history, its own magisterium, with the current brutal hardline shutting-down and vile political meddling.

Hec and I had a talk about it once, and how it feels like contemplating abandoning a beloved friend who's gotten into a horrible abusive relationship with a manipulative bastard who's brainwashing her against all her old friends. If we all leave, she's got no lifeline out at all; but we can't stick around to the point where her fucked-up relationship is toxic to all of us too.

Bah. Don't need all these thinky thoughts right before Advent.

What's wrong with it as a response to "Thank you"?

Of course, it's just about our national motto, so I can't see it clearly, but still. When I say it, it's what I mean. Why shouldn't I say it?

Chris Weitz says:

this was made for the fans, and if you don’t get it, then you don’t get it.

IOW, it's not FOR you.

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