a week later...

People are still propagating the mass email at work. Now it doesn't even have the identifying subject line: people are just mass-mailing an email entitled "remove my name" with the text "remove my name from this list." This after the corporate director of IT security told people to knock it off.

Folks, this is a Fortune 500 company with 45,000+ employees. I think we should take you at your word: everyone sending one of these emails should be removed from company email servers. Permanently.

cautious optimism

OK, so I started doing the South Beach Diet, just out of curiousity and because it sounded like something I could actually manage.

I'm missing alcohol, but not craving it (except for a litlel while when I got home last night and was so tired that the decanter ont eh counter was calling to me; it's hard to resist a lilting Scottish broogue, but I did...)

I checked myself on the scale in the gym on Monday: 272. Today: 268. Now, the last time I checked before this week I was 276, so there's some variance in what's going on with my bod (the scale is fairly consistent: I've checked it). But this is the first time that I can recall since maybe the beginning of the year that I've been under 270.

questions for Brooke

I'm going to do all these as separate posts, person by person; if anyone wants me to filter theirs, just let me know.

1. What drew you to Dave first?

2. What exactly *is* it that you do?

3. Are you going to stay a Caps fan when you move to AZ?

4. How do Guinness and Murhpy get on with Dave? (not vice versa--I think you've indicated that).

5. Explain your strange fondness for the French. ;-)


BTW, I saw Caroline yesterday. I was coming out of Night Dreams and she was going to the gym with a yoga mat. At least, it looked a lot like her. She smiled in a friendly way and then tried to look like she hadn't.

questions for Melissa

Yeah, she's on vacation, but she was next in line.

1. What was it that led you to think that you would be happy with Chris, despite her strange soccer predilections?

2. If you could be (had to be, in fact) any kind of creature other than a humn, what sort would you choose?

3. If there were one thing (physical, emotional, behavioral) you could change about Chris, what would it be?

4. How far back do your memories go before they switch from being episodic to being more sensory impressions? Or do they work in a different way than that?

5. Does supreme executive power derive from a mandate from the masses, or because some watery tart throws a sword at you?

questions for Jennie

1. Whence cometh your interest in fairies and sprites exemplified by your icon?

2. How do you discuss/descrigbe/explain your lifestyle choices to Eileen (if at all)?

3. If you could do any job in the world, whihc one would you choose, and why?

4. Who am I?

5. Is the swallow tropical or migratory?

questions for Doreen

1. What on earth are those funny men doing on stage with the sticks and the hankies?

2. What is your favourite drink? your favourite food?

3. How many countries have you traveled to?

4. Do you snore? does Kevin? How do you deal with this? (FWIW, Chris always made a conscious effort to go to sleep before I did. ;-)

5. What is Rule Number Six?

questions for Pooh

1. Thuddy or stingy?

2. How many bears *do* you own?

3. If you could change one thing about the DC metro region, what would it be?

4. Does your hair colour come naturally or from a bottle? ;-)

5. Is Castle Anthrax too perilous? or can you handle it without Sir Lancelot rescuing you?

questions for jaki

1. How did you meet Shawn?

2. Is there anything too naughty for you to do? (You don't have to say *what*, just yes or no ;-)

3. If you got any sexier, would you explode?

4. What do you want to do when you graduate?

5. *Does* Brian of Nazareth have a really long nose?

so, did I miss anyone?

Anyone else still un-interrogated?

damn them, damn them all!

I mean, it's actually very generous of people to leave packages of chocolate wafers and boxes of salt-water taffy by the water cooler, but...