So, Sandusky news, re: his lawyer's faux pas:

The choicest moment: At one point, Amendola discussed the possibility that Mike McQueary witnessed a rape, told Joe Paterno and two university administrators, and no one did anything except tell Sandusky to stay out of the locker room with kids. To anyone who believes that version of events, Amendola said, "I suggest you dial 1-800-REALITY." We did. Here's what we got:

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From deadspin.

Geeez, Sandusky lawyer dude. Oy.

We had our Holiday potluck and White Elephant exchange. I brought ginger cookies and still have half a tin left. They are NOT coming home with me. Might stop by K-Bug's work and let her share them there. Also for the exchange I brought a Bath and Body Works lotion set and stole an Ugly Christmas Vest. All the alcohol was already stolen the requisit number of times, so I figured why not. K-Bug has an Ugly Christmas Sweater party next weekend and now she has something to wear.

I think 1-800- most things goes to porn lines now? I feel like this is something I've read.

Edit: [link] Not most, but a lot.

Well, our corporate lines are 800 numbers. Hopefully no one calls in hoping to get phone sex from me.

I brought ginger cookies and still have half a tin left. They are NOT coming home with me.

Shove 'em through the intertubes!

But in both of their cases, the issue isn't perfectionism, the issue is not wanting to do homework.

Ha! Yeah, I guess that's true for me, too, some portion of the time.

when I failed to count properly to ten

Glad Nora asked, because I was... concerned, let's say.

I just ate a big bowl of pasta with tomato sauce, and I know that tomato sauce gives me indigestion nowadays, but I did it anyway. Dumbass. Was good, though.

The party I went to on Saturday had a White Elephant exchange, but most of us missed the point and brought quite nice gifts. I ended up with a slightly older but still perfectly useful iPod alarm clock dock (that was after I swapped out the Mrs. Santa Claus cookie jar that I couldn't use since I don't eat cookies anymore). My contribution to the exchange was an ornament I had just finished cross-stitching the night before. Turns out my hostess was the one who drew my number, and she was able to add that ornament to the other two I had made for her Christmas gift.

I came home with my iPod dock, the leftover chocolate/peanut butter bark I had brought to the party, and the leftover lemon bars she had made. I'm bringing them into work tomorrow, and probably will continue to do so the rest of the week, at least.

There's a guy at work whose email signature contains a graphic of Santa body slamming a blue-garbed Santa into the ground. There is *no* way that's allowed by company branding guidelines.

Is the blue a competitor color? Or is this some kind of "War on Christmas" statement? Weird.

Man oh man, this is going to be a hard adjustment. She's not even out yet and I've been working all day and am getting antsy to go for a walk.

Regretsy had pictures of X-rated XXXmas ornaments. It was completely NSFW and even the glimpse I got probably risked Santa-themed PTSD.

He says it's Judo Santa beating up Fake Santa.

That's a thing? When did it become a thing?

And we're explicitly barred having images in our sigs. I just checked branding in case there was something I was missing.

But, hey, if upper management isn't saying anything, I got nothing.

But I want violent sigs, dammit!