Loving the daily whisky report

Definitely need the bourbon one next year.

I think stage managers would make the best police force!

Stage managers would make excellent police officers. But I think Chicago is not a force id want to join.

But I think Chicago is not a force id want to join.

It's so insanely corrupt! And not so much for bribes like Brooklyn and Philly. They have their own "Black" sites where they put prisoners and their PDs can't find them. Nasty. Completely unaccountable and violent and dangerous.

All true, but they're smart enough not to approach a demonstration like an invading army (ala Ferguson/St. Louis County PD).

Also, I read a report that said that of all the complaints filed against CPD officers 350 or so were attributable to 20 or so cops. I've got to believe that if the other cops held those 20 accountable instead of maintaining the blue wall bs the situation would be drastically different. It wouldn't fix everything but it would go a long way in the right direction.

Oh sarameg and Nanita, I'm so sorry.

I found out another work colleague might be ill, and in fact might be very ill. Again I don't have details, but I am worried for her.

We don't have a normal tv anymore so we need to find a way to watch The Wiz on the internets, but I am SO EXCITED! I've already kvelled that Isaac is playing the Lion in his school's production of The Wiz this year, right?

One more day of classes this semester.

Me too. Yay!

I made butterbeer!

I made cookie dough. I am considering also making a super decadent brownie recipe I have on hand that I've never made before.

I've got to believe that if the other cops held those 20 accountable instead of maintaining the blue wall bs the situation would be drastically different. It wouldn't fix everything but it would go a long way in the right direction.

Exactly, see also priests and coaches and many other professions. If you don't want your kind (frat brothers, fundamentalist Christians, doctors) to get a bad rep then you have to smack them down, rat 'em out, shame them into compliance. This applies to so many groups. The #notall tag works best when the corrupted group drives out to bad apples.

I'm sorry about the work associate illnesses, Burrell.

I need to think about recipes and cooking and stuff for Christmas. I keep collecting recipes. Yum.

My office is doing surprise cookies this month. Everyday, new cookies, mostly homemade. So far we've had ginger snaps, shortbread thumbprint cookies, and rice crispy bars. My day for bringing them in is next Tuesday, and I'm making pecan-cranberry bars. It's not great for my waistline, but it's not like I was gonna be slender before cookie month.

PC got me into Hamilton via Twitter. So good!

I'm sorry about people's work, health, and family concerns. It's especially hard when the surrounding culture is all, be Merry, damnit!

And eventually I'll remember the Advent whiskey calendar before Advent happens, because every year I'm like, how nifty is that?

Watch what happens when policies screw employees: wake up at Ohno o'clock. Say fuck this. Go back to bed deliberately intending to burn a few hrs of soon-to-be-gone sick leave. Still dawdling.

You look unwell from here, sarameg. I think you should stay home to be cautious.