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hope you slept well!
i wish i could crawl back into bed instead of going to work today :(

sssssshush you'll wake her.

i had job interview number.... i've lost count... today. and several more lined up for next week. god this is tedious.

Hey folx, I really need a chatter thread.

HI Ms. M! How are you? This is definitely a chatter thread. (welcome!)

Hey you guys. Thanks for your good sleeping thoughts. I'm going to get the kids some food and go back to sleep! I'm still exhausted from the night before last's insomnia fest.

Oh! PS Nick - good luck with all those interviews... "several" sounds good (although yeah, tedious).

yay chatter.

Oh man, you parents are amazing. I kept my brother's four for a week last month. I thought I was going to die.

I start a new job next week and have literally no work to do. This is going to drive me nuts.

I'll have to change my user name in a bit as my work email is changing.

FOUR kids?! I only have two, remember! And they are getting older - J is the youngest and she's going to be 6 this month. Your brother is really lucky you were willing to take his kids for a whole week. WOW.

Sorry you're so bored at work... being bored like that can be stressful. What are you thinking about a new user name? I'm trying to avoid doing that, but my ISP is run by well-meaning idiots and I think I may have to switch as well.

I'm going back to sleep, but I'll check back with you all later...

Ages 3-8. It was "Camp Tia" and I'm afraid I'm a poor, grouchy camp counselor.

I'll just be Susan/Sam. I'm not really miserable these days. Just bored. (which is a horrible state to be in. Maybe I'll watch the LOST eps I missed.)

i imagine logins would work if you kept them, you'd just never receive webmails.

sara, so jealous of your sleeping.

Good point.

Why hullo Ms. M, how's things?

Good. About to start great new job, now making about 7k more than I was at the beginning of the summer. Life is sweet. I'm just bored waiting out the last week of this job. boo.

How be you?

Mmm, money. Ain't it nice.

I'm well, thanks! Restful at work and waiting to eat good Ethiopian food tonight followed by watching 88 drummers and a guy operating a nefarious feedback machine at the La Brea Tar Pits.

tonight we are going to a friend's birthday drinks. I'm about to leave work now and burn some comp time.

Nap was awesome. Now I'm envious of everyone else's Friday night plans. I'm going to lift weights, and hopefully watch a documentary about ballet. (But the kids will be asleep by then, so I'll be verrrrry pleased with that.)

ooooh which doc? <3 ballet docs/movies!

i am thinking of taking a nap this afternoon.

don't worry, i have 0 in the way of exciting friday night plans. i will go home and be lame and poor while ppl are at 88 boadrums.

hi itr

Hi RR! What's up?

xp It's called Ballet Russes, which is about all I know about it. Except I think Nijinsky may be in it. (I can't remember much and my ISP won't let me get much out of netflix. My ISP is probably going to be dumped shortly.)

from imdb:
For many, modern ballet began with the Ballet Russe of Monte Carlo, originally made up of Russian exiles from the Russian Revolution. This film tells the story of this landmark company with its stars and production as well as its power games, rivalries and tribulations that marked its turbulent history.

ooooh Thanks!

(and duh! I should have remembered imdb.com. I've been using it to help me with xword puzzles lately. I can at least get to that site, even if it looks funny.)

let me know if it's good! have you seen children of theatre street? i lovve it.

I will report back!

I've never even heard of Children of Theater Street. I'll add it to my queue (assuming I can still do that. SIGH)

it is super! it's about kids in the state ballet school during ussr days. grace kelly narrates!

okay that sounds awesome

i own it, it's so awesome.

It sounds great. How did I never hear about that before?

Okay, now I can't even add stuff to my Netflix queue. I am getting kind of cranky about this.

Raise a ruckus.

These guys clearly don't know how to fix the problem, but the trouble I'm having is twofold: 1. I don't want to change my email address because it's a huge pain and 2. I feel kind of sorry for the morons. Objectively I know that I'm paying them for a product I'm not getting, but I want to give them the chance to fix it. But at a certain point, very soon, I'm going to have to just move to a different provider because I need full internet access for school.

need moar banter. i can not stay awake. checking in "i dreamed a dream" right now and i kind of just want to go do that.

Okay, here is something random:

I had a dream last night that I went to a movie theater to see West Side Story. However, the film kept being stopped so that people could act out portions of it in the theater. One of the people in the theater was Tim Conway (is he even alive anymore?!). Tim started acting out part of it, but then got very irritable and quit, claiming that he "owned the copyright on this part," and then he stalked out.

I feel sure that, somehow, this is a commentary on the McCain campaign.

wark is wark is wark is wark is wark is wark

Okay I am trying to get rid of some of the junk and clutter in our house. I just discovered a treasure, though. Shrinky Dinks!

The problem is that now I want to stop decluttering and play with the Shrinky Dinks, too.

HEY GUYS MY FRIDAY PLANS WENT FROM "ATTEND BACKYARD PARTY IN OH" TO "SIT IN AN AIRPORT ON THE INTERNET" so middle fingers to all of you.

We still love you, Dan. And if you were here, you could totally make Shrinky Dinks with us.

Get home safe, okay?

I think I'm gonna get home DANGEROUS

You'll feel better after you get to vent to J031 in person. (At least that is how it works for me...)

wtf are shrinky diks?

!!!!!!!o_O!!!!!!!

you poor deprived soul

oh lol, wait, i'm just old

woah did not even notice the typo there LOL

hahaha

Shrinky Dinks are this weird, easy art project where you make designs in colored pencil or marker on the Shrinky Dink material, cut it out, and then bake it up so that it shrinks - and gets thicker and harder.

(I'm sorry, but I'm cracking up at my own description here).

You can make little earrings or key chains or whatever out of them.

woah.

shrinky dinks will keep your family together

Also, sometimes they kind of curl up while you bake them, which is a vast disappointment to everyone concerned. Usually it's just one or two that do that, though.

whoa, tza, those are some hardcore detailed Shrinky Dinks they are showing

interesting that they make this claim of keeping families together yet the father is mysteriously absent from the video.

i am going to yell at my mother for not letting us have those when we were kids!