I am very glad today is my last day.

See, you're a much better person than I am, because I'd be tempted to send angry big boss cancelled invitations to The Rest of My Life.

You're well rid of her, megan.

Seriously.

Or a seething mass of the outraged over-privileged, who feel they aren't sufficiently appreciated.

I hope I'm misreading this - if this was meant as a dig towards the skeptical community, it's terribly unfair and inaccurate.

ElevatorGuyGate is just an example of the skeptical community being very similar to the rest of the internet.

"But if I can't ask out absolutely any woman I ever like the second I see her, even at 4 AM in a hotel elevator when she's exhausted after a long day of lecturing about how women don't like being sexualized by their colleagues at professional gatherings, then I will never be able to meet the mother of my atheist children and the terrorists have won. WHY DO YOU HATE MEN SO MUCH?"

BUT ELEVATOR GUY WAS PROBABLY REALLY SHY OR NERDY OR SOMETHING OMG WON'T SOMEBODY PLEASE THINK OF THE NERDS?!?!!!

Give 'em hell, Allyson!

I did at the lunch counter yesterday when someone tried to mansplain objectivism to me. I hit him with Pirsig and said I really don't want to live in a purely objectivist world, since it would be a world filled with psychopaths living in caves because no one would have ever invented the wheel. That was the nutshell. But mostly I was thinking that objectivism kept Def Jam from getting off the ground sooner, and I wouldn't want to live in a world without Chuck D.

Objectively, Russell Simmons is worth about 1/3 of a billion dollars due to the objectivism of rich white dudes with privilege who thought no one would buy records made by angry black men. Subjectively, the music he made was loved by millions and millions of people.

I'm stuck in a Chuck D loop. Holy shit his voice is bananas.

BUT ELEVATOR GUY WAS PROBABLY REALLY SHY OR NERDY OR SOMETHING OMG WON'T SOMEBODY PLEASE THINK OF THE NERDS?!?!!!

The pity fuck is over, gentlemen. You're going to have to come up with a better plan.

I'm so glad you're outta there, megan.

As for TJ recs, I really love their frozen ginger carrots, which are julienned carrots mixed with ginger and other stuff and just delish.

Oh, and the gum thing - after Dawkins made the "some women undergo genital mutilation therefore Rebecca shouldn't feel uncomfortable when she's propositioned at 4am in a hotel elevator*" he stated that Rebecca's experience was equivalent to him being in an elevator with someone chewing gum. I can only assume this is because he personally knows people for whom sharing an elevator with a gum-chewer would trigger a panic attack due to previous traumatic gum-related experiences.

*after giving a talk about how she really REALLY hates being propositioned at conferences

That guy sounds awesome.

I drove down here with Jennifer Ouellette, who is giving a talk on fictional narratives on cosmology post-Copernicus.

Both of us didn't want to come here after reading thousands of posts about how ridiculous women's concerns are.

But then I was like, "you know, I'd rather show up and make those fuckers uncomfortable and not want to come here anymore. Then the room will be filled with a hundred Phil Plaits next time around, and isn't that really preferrable to a hundred mansplainers?"