decision-making.

thx nscience!

no thank you.

A quick look on @flightradar24 and you can see the move away from Ukraine airspace pic.twitter.com/lS3OI5O8Ug
— PlaneTalking (@Plane_Talking) July 17, 2014

what are you doing tomorrow?

joel, starla, and thomas wilhelm and i are having a 2Pz correspondent retreat at the BEACH!
(spoiler alert: we're meeting to discuss DJV's future with 2Pz...)

not exactly

mr. erin LOVED east nashville and said he wanted to stick around, but we're a team now, so he made the rest of the journey to memphis. we just watched Murray advance to the final!
IRONY ALERT: i "rescued" mr. erin to keep a guy from taking him to a bar. now here we are, 1100 miles away at a bar.

champagne problems

Yale QB Patrick Witt found out last week that he was a finalist for the Rhodes Scholarship. Great news right? WRONG. His interview is this weekend in Atlanta, but Witt is scheduled to play against Yale's arch-rival Harvard! Pop quiz hot shot, what do you do? what do you do?






Spoiler Alert: He's withdrawing his application so that he can focus on playing "The Game." yikes...


"For more than a century, Rhodes scholars have left Oxford with virtually any job available to them. For much of this time, they have overwhelmingly chosen paths in scholarship, teaching, writing, medicine, scientific research, law, the military and public service. They have reached the highest levels in virtually all fields." #justsayin'


Soooo, guess we'll see you at the game this weekend Patrick!

poll time : what do we dooooo?!!?!!?

here's the latest.

vote up top.

good news.

obama said in a 60 minutes interview recorded today that he will not be releasing the dead-osama pixies. you can see his brain in them! eewwww!!

"The risks of release outweigh the benefits," he said. "Conspiracy theorists around the world will just claim the photos are doctored anyway, and there is a real risk that releasing the photos will only serve to inflame public opinion in the Middle East."

"Imagine how the American people would react if Al Qaida killed one of our troops or military leaders, and put photos of the body on the internet," he continued. "Osama bin Laden is not a trophy - he is dead and let's now focus on continuing the fight until Al Qaida has been eliminated." (via)

i know what you're thinking: what does sarah palin think? she tweeted:

Show photo as warning to others seeking America's destruction. No pussy-footing around, no politicking, no drama;it's part of the mission

is that a semi-colon? how gauche!

a story from my real life

preface:

i work in an 2-floor office of about 40 people. on the second floor, there are a total of three women, myself included. we share one two-stall bathroom, so the bathroom is uninhabited about 90% of the day, if not more. on a related note, my company just spent a significant amount of time and money to install solar panels on our roof, which provide more than enough energy needed to power our office, and we sell the extra back to the local utilities board.

i've been working here for over a year now, and i noticed when i started that the bathroom light was always left on. given the solar panels, my big-city-liberal sensibilities, and innate common sense, i make an effort to turn the light off when i leave the bathroom. it's never caught on, but i still do it.

this afternoon, i was leaving the bathroom when i found the note pictured above next to the light switch. first thing i did was check out the desk of my work nemesis, who i like to call "rupal's drag race". she is a bossy terror, but ultimately lacks grace with her attempts at anonymity. hot pink post-its everywhere.

i'm beside myself about this whole situation, which i find to be complete and utter nonsense. my need to defy her request has monopolized my thoughts for the last hour, and i'm just unsure how to gauge the value of revenge / winning versus the risks involved with workplace passive-aggressiveness.

at any rate, john and i have brainstormed some pretty epic responses, which i'm sure everyone can enjoy:

john: next time you see her go in
wait till she's got her panties around her ankles, and then turn off the light


me: should i leave a hot pink post-it on her computer
"please turn your mouth off when you're done ruining the environment. thank you."


john: take her note, and wipe your ass with it, and leave THAT on her desk
that'll teach her
me: thats the best idea yet


me: i thought about putting her note in the toilet and forgetting to flush
so she could find it

john: scrawl BITCH on the note
me: in menstrual blood
and i'll put in parentheses "that's from my uterus"

john: i say, turn off the light, and wipe turd on the light switch. then just sit back and wait for her to get your poo on her hands
me: its officially giggles o clock

john: no, write, "go back to where you came from!"
it's time you resort to plain ol' fashioned racism


what do YOU guys think i should do?!

kismet's (potential) new sister

UPDATE: the poll's busted. just vote in the comments!

melissa can have this puppy today if she chooses. she's a little unsure, and feeling a bit unsupported (probably joel's fault, sounds like craig's been really pulling his weight, i.e., puppy scouting). please vote in the poll above and let her know what you think is best.