The thing about bedbugs that amazes me is the stigma. They don't cause disease, they are not associated with uncleanliness - they are itchy and annoying, but so are mosquitoes and there is no stigma about those!
People shouldn't judge others for having them, BUT unlike mosquitos they travel with you, are ludicrously hard to kill/avoid in your own home, and attack when you are vulnerable, making them psychologically horrifying. So yeah, I think people are justified in trying to avoid getting them.
Bedbug bites, if not treated properly, can cause edema which is no good. Happened to a former coworker who ended up being hospitalized for a few days.
Skanky McFarland is an excellent derby name.
LA Times today pub'd an article about getting airplay on KCRW. The advantage is that I now know more about it (I submitted my album to them months ago), but the disadvantage is now everyone ELSE knows too and will be competing with me to get through to their phone during the brief weekly window when you can check whether your CD has been added to their library and is getting any airplay.
I've GOT to turn my hours around. I was up 'til 3am again last night. It's adding to my depression missing so much daylight and it's bound to get worse in the winter. Gotta turn it around!
Ugh. There was an actual farce of mistaken identity due to the lady with the name like mine mispronounced. A whole cascade of coincidence, too. Because I walk out of the restroom and they're wondering if they've found the right person, and all i can think is "she's actually washing her hands right now, if it's not me you want..."
I can't properly dislike her, because she's never been anything other than enthusiastically nice and cheerful towards me (wait, that might be rationale in and of itself). I just want her called something else, dammit.
Unrelatedly, decision isn't a verb, and timebox isn't a word.
Also, why do we kill a tree for every daily meeting? I'm in content management. I'm supposed to be minimising paper in the workplace, dammit.
The storm is starting to arrive here. It's kind of creepy. Alternating between the air being totally still and wind blowing everything everywhere, with no real in-between periods.
I just finished clearing up everything in my yard. I managed to break a
toenail
trying to get my compost bin under the steps.
I am supposed to announce: "We encourage you follow us on Twitter at @DBookFestival and we ask you to tag your
tweets with #Bookzilla."
How should I actually say that? "at DBookFest" and "hash tag Bookzilla"? At sign? Pound sign?
