Gacked from others:

The 123 Meme:

1. Pick up the nearest book.
2. Open to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the next two or three sentences.

Richard was thunderstruck: it had been like watching Emma Peel, Bruce Lee, and a particularly vicious tornado, all rolled into one and sprinkled with a generous helping of a mongoose killing a king cobra ( Read more... )

I'm sitting at work at 10:32 a.m. and I just realized that I'm supposed to take the 5-year-old kidlet to (dear god!) Chuck E. Cheese's at 6 tonight for a birthday party. ... I don't get off work until 6. ... I haven't gotten him a present!

My day just jettisoned into the crapper.