Don't leave a voicemail, seriously.

I've been sick as hell since I got home. One upshot to that is that I can be acceptably rude to people and get away with it. Yesterday someone I loathe attempted to shake my hand and I was holding a kleenex so I could say "Oh, sorry, I'm sick, I don't think I should touch you." and that was alright.

It's snowing here. I have mixed feelings about that. For a few days it's nice, I suppose, to have the fireplace on and to wrap up in sweaters and wool socks, but I know this is just the beginning and by the turn of the year I'll be shoveling snow and cursing the world.

Things are a bit rough here right now, so I don't have any hilarious anecdotes (well, I suppose I have many, but I don't feel like being funny), but I did see Quantum of Solace and liked it a whole bunch. Daniel Craig owns that shit, man. I will just take it on the chin and say I was totally wrong when I groused about his casting as Bond (he's BLOND, y'all, I mean, wtf?). He's just so perfect in that role that I think James Bond's been waiting on Daniel Craig to come along for however many decades.

( Gossip Girl eta: and Heroes )

Something I really love about MSNBC is how I think they just randomly make things up for the lulz. Case in point: Bill for Hils' senate seat?

Come on! Who cooked that "rumor" up? I am also interested in the spin that FoxNews has going on about Obama. Suddenly he's not a terrorist or the antichrist? How did that happen?

1600 just linked Bush and Nixon in the same sentence. That's not even SUBTLE leftist propaganda. HAHAHAHA

Alright, I think Chris Matthews himself made up the Bill Clinton thing himself (for the lulz).

( My pets since I just unloaded my camera memory card. )

I can't believe this fucking automotive bailout. I guess when Obama brings back the WPA we can get jobs writing camp songs and painting murals? Today my mom unilaterally took TEN angel tree kids for my family. She can't even do charity in a calm reasonable way. Ok, I have to go "plan" angel tree child shopping apparently. (We're not doing presents this year at all I don't think, just buying each other sheep for the 3rd world and the usual local charity stuff, it appears. That means I can be truly superior and smug all month.)

eta: Okay. What my mom actually did was this: the other day she read in the paper about a town near here where the single largest employer suddenly laid everyone off and cut and ran this week. In the article was something about the food bank there and how there was a local charity collecting names of kids who won't get gifts now. What does my mom do? She calls information and gets the home phone number of the mayor of this town. She then calls him and volunteers her work to buy all the gifts for these kids. If I'm lyin', I'm dyin'. There are only ten kids LEFT because all of her employees and coworkers went hog wild snapping up the kids. There is something to be said about the best and the worst of people coming out during difficult times. Anyway, my mom, people. Called the mayor.