'Heart Of Gold'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
msbelle, there was no injera link? I don't think we have an Ethiopian place here, and even if we do, I know I'd be too shy to ask them about it!
Scrappy, motorcycle trip through the desert, woo! You've passed some sort of coolness rite of passage now, I'm sure.
sorry ethiopianspices.com
Thank you, msbelle! I'll check them out.
meara, that sucks. I complain mightily about Canada's lack of long weekends between Xmas and Easter, but MAY? Ridiculous.
We were out of Feliway (the cat pheromone) for about a week. Any doubts about it having an effect are gone because Oz was a massive asshole without it, and is much better only 3 days into having it again. However, it does not stop the cats from waking me up early.
Consuela, I need to find your lj.
smonster, i do have Susan's FB, and actually, she writes for the publisher I work for!!
But I have been a week off of FB, and I am scared I will interrupt my groove of work-til-I-die tonight if I go there.
Trust me, that was my first thought, she she specialized in Napoleonic, and I WILL be hitting her up soon for references. And silly me, I thought 3 shelves of reference books was enought for copyediting!
Back to work. Please send hot decaf apricot tea.
Sox, I'm cofax7 on both LJ and DW. I post linkspam, mostly: I don't have access during the workday, so I can't have long discussions anymore.
My new office gets MLK, Memorial Day, 4th of July, Labor Day, Tgivng (and the Friday after) and Christmas. That's it. Coming from the land of the Fed (ah, Columbus Day), it gonna suck.
I get those days plus usually a couple of days before Christmas and after Christmas until January 2nd (depending on what day of the week New Year's falls.)
I get a decent amount of the standard days, but my last two jobs (even more hardcore financial--bank compliant, which is a little more generous, apparently, than trading floor compliant, and university) were pretty damned golden.
God forbid I should ever go back to the small-company-jumping-through-hoops whose idea of observing holidays was not paying us on days where the banks were closed, although we were open.
However, I do now have to intermittently work weekends. Although, with luck, I have three (Sunday 12AM) deployments this month, and I'll only be working for one of them! Living the dream!
Met the cousin I don't like to give her the cake. My mother: "Did she bite you?" No, there was no biting. But she is also not my new best friend. My poor mother. She didn't do anything to deserve the bitch(es) she got as kids.