It's not completely broken here yet, but then you all are three hours ahead.

NO! I need today to be functional! Yesterday was broken! Or, okay, maybe it was just me. But for serious, people, I need to kick some productivity ass.

Today is just broken.

Seriously - what's up with that?

I'm spinning my wheels here at work waiting on environmental factors I can't do anything about, but the clock is still ticking.

I have been fairly productive with work, despite many others' attempts to make things difficult, but I still did not get nearly all I need to do done.

Now I need to eat, run an errand, and get mac before my mom loses her mind.

Arrgh- I am back on politics... how is President Obama "Forcing People to bow to Islam."?!??!?!?!?!?!

I feel like the assholes who go on and on about the liberal media, but the conservative media machine has got people convinced that somehow islam is impinging on our freedom of religion, that the government telling someone who they can marry (and making a law about it) is not against the ideal of fewer laws and regulations, that people are pumping out babies not in an effort to better their condition, but in order to take over this country. And the thing that makes me mad is that I really do suspect that this is a planned, concerted effort of mis-information, all the while tainting the other news with the brush of "liberalism". And in a particularly brilliant move, linking liberalism and education and elitism so that any attempt to make a rational counterargument is met with suspicion-- facts are something somehow educated people made up in order to stay rich. And then these jackasses that are perpetuating this are the rich ones. Gah!

Oh man. I just got a call from a recruiter verifying someone's references. The guy claimed he worked in our Drug Safety group till December 2008. Sir, before December 2008, our Drug Safety group consisted of three to five people. I would remember you, you lying liar who lies. (Hell, even if he claimed he just worked at the company, I would have recognized his name, we were so small then. And he has an unusual, Indian name.)

I have heard about people lying on résumés. I've never actually encountered it before. It seems really stupid when it's so easy to check out.

I'm not of the "withholding sex" type. However, catching up on laundry AND dirty dishes after taking care of the kids on my own for three days will not leave much energy for much else. He has a higher tolerance for mess than I do, which I make allowances for.

I'm not especially pissed about the dishes but I am the laundry. I made a specific request that he fold at least some of it while I was gone and it was untouched when I got back.

I think sex-as-reward also implies that having sex is a chore, and a rather unpleasant one at that: "You do these unpleasant household tasks for me, and in return I'll have sex with you."

Did anyone imply that this was going on in any Buffista household?

We had someone at my Michigan job who not only lied about her duration of employment with us, but she called and complained to us when we told the truth about how short a time she'd worked with us.

I'd pretty much asked her in the interview if she really wanted to work with us--I could tell from her presentation that she was a really poor fit, and boy, was that true. She quit inside of a month. She was expecting us to lie for her? The fuck?

I'm with Jess. If I'm pissed off, I don't want to have sex with you.

I'm with these guys. We actually had a conversation/discussion with friends awhile back about this very thing where the other guy in the conversation didn't understand the difference between being angry and therefore not In The Mood and withholding sex just to get your point across. I had a boyfriend a long time ago tell me, "Never use sex as a weapon because it's a bomb and you'll get hurt, too." and he was totally right.