Number 6000 e-mail me!

Spent the day at work yesterday because I was so far behind.
I wandered in at 11, and I had brought these videos with me, because there's a TV and VCR in my office, so I watched Chicago Hope and Inspector Morse and skating and worked like a demon.

It was really quite extraordinary. Since there was no-one around, there was no reason to goof off, you know? Usually it's like a battle of wits, trying to goof off as much as possible while still getting everything done, but I just barreled on for seven hours and did about four times as much work as I would usually do in the same amount of time during the week.

Here's a letter from me that went out to Open Pages:

Okay, guys, there is now a new Open Page Snapshots page up, available here.

The Snapshots page is a page with one paragraph from each journal from the latest entry up on 24 March, unless you wrote something dull like "I'm on vacation! Bye!" as your entire entry.

It was a huge undertaking, and I want you to remember that fact as you are poised to write to me about how I could pick that horrible paragraph, what the hell was I thinking, and what's the matter with me anyway. I picked what I considered best paragraph from the entry in question, and if you really hate it, remember who wrote it in the first place. And who made all those spelling errors that I didn't correct, too.

The only thing I will change is your name. If I used your real name, because it's on your site, and you would rather use a pseudonym, or if I didn't use your real name, because I couldn't for the life of me find it on your site, and you would rather not use a pseudonym, then let me know.

That's it, darlings.

And if you think I'm being mean, well, I am a much meaner person than Kat, it's true, but in this instance I'm just making it clear that I spent days on this thing and it is done done done!

Then, I got a note from a friend chiding me for being defensive, and I said:

O, I'm not defensive, I'm being Mom. If you have over 100 children, who have a tendency to be extremely egotistical and whiney (and don't tell me they're not 'cause I know I am) and it's best to start out with your foot down before they start trying to take advantage. It's like getting in the car to go to the store and saying "Alright you kids, listen up! When we get to the store don't even bother asking for ice cream 'cause you're not getting it, or candy for that matter, but if nobody fights in the car, then everyone can get one, ONE, soda."

Why couldn't they have gotten an actual Australian person to play Paul Hogan's nephew on that Subaru Outback commercial?

That accent is terrible!

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