Long busy week full of customer service. My smilers are almost worn out. Got to go be pleasant again tomorrow all afternoon and evening. Uhhhgh. I'm slightly groggy and short on sleep, but I'm sick of not posting here, but my use of words is weird right now while I'm so underslept, you see my difficulty.On the plus side, today I slipped off from ( Read more... )

( Behind a cut because gross food humor is not to everyone's liking. )

Thanks to rax for the heads-up: tame foxes are available for sale as pets in the US.  I read about what was either this program or a similar setup in one of my elementary psych textbooks, the other year.  Apparently the foxes were created in a breeding program to select for the tamest, most cuddly-natured animals, and the present generations of fox ( Read more... )

I've been reading my way through Strange Horizons magazine.  So far, I'm very taken with two stories:

"Cory's Father", Francesca Forrest.  Strange and sad, managing in a brief tale to hint at a world beyond what it tells.  It uses a concept I particularly enjoy, setting off the supernatural and otherworldly with concrete real-world details and a ( Read more... )