What is this behemoth? Mastiff? Irish wolfhound?

Connie is right: It's my GSD and my sister's St. Bernard. Together they just about total 200lbs.

Although I love the idea of the Sharktopus-huahua. Betchya Reese Witherspoon can't carry one of those in her little bag!

After all, you're not under any stress.

You may have a point there.

ION, I had written & submitted a story for a fannish challenge yesterday--wrote the whole thing in about 36 hours, didn't get any beta, just sent it in, since the deadline is tomorrow.

And of course I then spent all day worrying that I'd fucked it up. And I realized that I did, in fact, fuck it up a bit, in potentially racefaily ways. So I rewrote some of it just now and sent it off to the challenge, begging them to toss the earlier version and use this.

There's a woman somewhere on the other side of the country who isn't liking me much right now...

Tom, I was just begging my cousin to mail me a patty with coco bread. I don't suppose you're up for the challenge??

I think Owen just pulled a Nilly. DH is playing Uno with the kids at the end of the table and Owen had a 7, 6 and a 1. He looked up and said, this is a Fact Family. (factors?). He proceeded to tell me all the ways they relate in addition and subtraction.

He's already ahead of me in math.

I guess you're not doing the crossword tournament?

Sadly, I'm not. Boooo.

But google suggests there at least used to be a pattie place in the nearby train station, so I will totally swing by there soon.

What are these "patties"? Not hamburger, I take it.

I eat my vegetables and get my exercise and take my vitamins, and I even got a flu shot!

I know, right? I still have the plague!

What are these "patties"? Not hamburger, I take it.

Jamaican meat-filled pastry.

Again proving my theory that every cuisine's version of "bread with meat in it" is awesome.

Totally! I love them all.