Birthday Happies Beverly!!

I totally pay for the extra legroom when I can.

I can't believe I forget my reclining problems, but I was also incensed with the last-minute bait and switch where they couldn't assign me a regular seat and offered me extra legroom for extra money instead. That's dirty, shitty pool. Especially when you're checking in the night before.

Speaking of James VanDerBeek, here he is watching Michelle Trachtenberg rap:

Oh, man, Dawn, what has happened to you?

She's Carol Blymire, heard of her? It seems in the few years we were out of touch she kind of became a foodie

I haven't heard of her, but I'm gonna read that blog! It is funny timing, I *just* finished reading my copy of the FL cookbook and was in despair about cooking anything from it. The FL is about mad technique, yo.

However, I also have the "ad hoc Cooking at Home" book and that seems a little more up my alley, cooking-wise.

Thanks for the heads up!

Sure! She is now working on "Alinea" at home.

I think he did a great job. Redeemed a lot of Dawson's Creek for me.

Totally. but now I am very worried about Reid. Poor Boo, stealing drugs from a corpse.

Things that irk me: SNOW, people who back into a parking space and can't do it well so it takes forfucking ever, DPW, sore elbows, coworkers who call in sick at 7 am who know the day before they'll be out and know I've got a bad commute and usually am not in before 9 and yet don't give me warning the day before that I'll need to run the 9:30.

I'm leaving early and taking the laptop home.

A former professor at my school was arrested for fraud early this week and is now out on bail.

They have security patrolling the building to keep us safe.

It makes me feel unsafe.

My university sent out an email saying that a former employee had made non-specific threats against the university community. A judge ordered him to stay off campus, and the email included his picture and description and told us to call the police if we see him.

I am irritated by someone who wants to be a part of our nanny share (and who probably will be). I think she should be sucking up a bit - she won't be able to contribute house-space, she's going to start an hour earlier than anyone else so she'll encroach on my DH's morning, etc. - and she's not. Instead, she called and said she was going to join the share as if it was a done deal, and that she wanted to come over and see my house to make sure I wasn't a hoarder or anything like that. Ha, ha, ha. Oh, and meet the other share parents, too, of course.

Also, if flea is still around: new baby name (DH's cousin had a little girl yesterday) Elizabeth Maebelle [Mizrahi Jewish Name Not the Same as my DH's]. I dunno what they're going to call her.

The "green" development at the end of my street apparently had a bomb threat yesterday morning. Dear dumbass but well-intentioned lefty freegan types - if there were an actual bomb, which there wasn't, those damn towers falling would destroy at least two fucking blocks of the neighborhood you are theoretically trying to preserve.