I love when people call me for an interview and ask "Is this something you're still interested in?"

Is this something I'm still interested in. Is this something I'm still interested in. Lady, it is only my last thread of professionalism that is keeping me from leaping through the phone, prostrating myself at your feet, and outright begging you ( Read more... )

It occurs to me that Craigslist needs a new system for flagging job posts. Right now we're looking at the usual set: miscategorized, spam, prohibited content, possibly illegal. If I may, Craig, I think you need a few more ( Read more... )

I'm pretty bad at being a girl.

( Cut for whinging about unnecessary girly things, and maybe TMI? )

Will says I oughta write a book called that, "Oh God I Hate Things." Just 300 pages of complaining. But this time I have a legitimate point ( Read more... )

There are some who say that no matter where you are or what time of day it is, some channel somewhere will be showing Law & Order. This is untrue, and I have disproved it by experience. The true nature of this particular cosmic secret is as follows ( Read more... )

Today Auntie is going to take Nathan on his first carousel ride.

Later in his life, he'll remember his mom taking him on his first carousel ride, but the truth will be that his Aunt Emi, the carousel maven, did it when he was about six months old and had no idea what was going on, back when she wasn't technically his aunt yet. :D

ETA: Oh my god, ( Read more... )

I just put my nephew to sleep by means of a bottle and They Might Be Giants. He dropped off on the last few bars of Older.

So I was happily watching The Sarah Connor Chronicles when suddenly (SPOILER). "WAAAUGH," I opined. My parents stared at me ( Read more... )

Dear Livejournal ( Read more... )

We went to FAO Schwarz the other weekend just for the sheer hell of it and inevitably passed the doll section.  I gazed enviously at the baby doll nurses.  "You know, I've always wanted to do that," I said to Will, even despite hearing that story on NPR, even despite the hordes of entitled rich people I'd have to deal with every day that would ( Read more... )