Exchanged emails with the insurance company

I can, in fact, afford to have this crown redone. It'll just use up my dental benefits for the year.

*sigh*


In other news, one of my coworkers has quit to go be a missionary. Didn't see that coming.


Today's earrings: swords, dragons

Bedtime reading: Unseen Academicals, Terry Pratchett

Major Earring Score

Went to the Millbrae Art & Wine Fest with b2. We shopped. We drank wine. We ran into her parents. (Hi, b2's parents!) I scored major quantities of earrings. Then we went for ice cream.

I also got a sunburn. When will I learn the Lesson of Sunscreen?


Today's acquisitions: yellow schoolbuses, chickens, broomsticks, aces, black bears, brown bears, mice.

Today's earrings: swords, alligators

Bedtime reading: Crimson Joy, Robert B. Parker

Here there be dragons

http://www.xkcd.com/256/


Today's earrings: swords, alligators

Bedtime reading: Hard Row, Margaret Maron

Particulates

When I left the house this morning, I was a little bemused that there was fog in the east instead of in the west. It wasn't until this evening until I realized that wasn't fog but a cloud of smoke.

Hope everyone's breathing easily.


Today's earrings: swords, estrogen molecules

Bedtime reading: Neverwhere, Neil Gaiman

Reptiles & Samurai

I was in the break room with the newspaper when a coworker walked in, asked what I was reading. The review of the Police show, I told her. She asked if I was a fan. I told her I was a sophmore in high school in 1983, and what choice did I have? I asked what she was doing in '83, and she said she was two years old and not really tuned in to the radio. She wanted to know if I as into "80s music," and I didn't really know what to say to that. It's the music of my youth. Some of it I still love, some of it still sucks. She wanted to know my favorite band of the time. I mentioned Oingo Boingo... and the name rang no bells for her. I told her Elfman wrote the theme for Futurama. [Looked it up - I was wrong. He wrote the Simpsons theme. Sue me.]

Poor girl lacks Boingo, though, and that's just not good. I should bring her some.

Oddly, I was thinking of an Oingo Boingo tune when I put in my earrings this morning:
Reptiles have silly grins
Dark eyes--shiny teeth--some have fins
Samurai they smile never
Serious--pretty swords--very clever


Today's earrings: swords, alligators

Bedtime reading: Hip-Deep in Alligators, Robert Campbell

Schadenfreude

is corrosive to the soul. Ill-wishing is not a beneficial practice. And yet... the sight of an spoilt overgrown child being taught that there are people with the power (and the will) to punish her for being disrespectful makes me chuckle.

I am not a good person.


Today's earrings: swords, Celtic knots

Bedtime reading: Foundation, Isaac Asimov