Tomorrow is my Halloween party, and I don't have to work Saturday or Sunday!

My boss is going to be gone all week next week (party at the bookstore!)

and then next weekend is the anime convention!

WHEEEEEEEeeeeee

People who go to work when they're sick make me mad, because then they risk getting you sick. But I understand is situations like retail, where if you call in sick you risk getting fired or in trouble, or even at best don't get paid and then can't afford food and shit.

And then they will access the past using the machines our new robot pony overlords have provided

we need to scroll this over to the next page so I don't have to look at sad Nyancat anymore

goddammit Nessy, you're bringing down the whole thread

That does suck, Kimiko, but at least you don't have to worry about calling in sick!

where is my "we don't look that much alike eh" image when I need it

I'm too lazy to look for it on the forum, and I'm not on my laptop where it's kept.

Just pretend I put it in here as part of my reply

I'd be less bitter about social security if I could get, like, food stamps or some bullshit. I'm a working adult without health insurance, goddammit. If I popped out some snaggle-toothed brats I'd get shit-tons of money from the state but, nooooo, being responsible and clapping up my babymaker only ...

I have no idea what's going on.

There are times when it's really obnoxious to be a compulsive reader

Zamisk's signature is one of those times.

that makes me really sad for some reason

;___; poor nyancat.

reminded of the time Christopher Paolini went on Letterman and got made fun of for sending several thousand dollars on a deluxe replica of, like, Sting or something from lotr.

I'm gonna send you a bill.

via a punch in the face

So I finished Downtime by Tamara Allen and, holy crap, finally a good book! After Prisoner, which I did not enjoy, and Counterpoint, which I abandoned after 100 pages of awful, and The Catch Trap, which left a bitter taste in my mouth -- I think I deserve to actually enjoy a book. And what a book! I...