The Zoo over Ambuscade Street

Dear My Brain:

It's Thursday, not Friday, however much you may wish it were. Therefore, when you check your account balance and it's much lower than you were anticipating, don't freak out! You don't get paid until tonight.

In other news, this whole "puppy" think is playing merry hell with my sleep. He wants to sleep with us, great. Except he doesn't necessarily want to sleep, he wants to play, and bark, and whimper, and play. Me? I want to sleep. A puppy chewing on my feet makes that problematic. A husband who still hasn't bought the crate for said puppy isn't making things easier. I'm going to die of tired.

Um. I'm pretty sure there was something more I was going to write here, but I completely can't remember what it was. Nice. Today is going to suck. Maybe I can get away with taking a half day, I have some credit hours saved up still...

Wow, work sucks less than usual today! Why? My iPod of Threatening National Security has been downgraded to the iPod of Mildly Inconveniencing Gate Nazis If They Happen To Notice It. Which means I can use it at work again. Life is so much the happier with almost 7000 songs from opera to industrial available according to my slightest whim. And, trust me, my whims are slight and fast. My productivity is up almost enough to make up for the whole no-sleep-because-of-puppy-teeth-in-feet thing.

Also, my new pendant (bought with VARF tips) rocks. As does my leather choker. Which is causing more comments here than I had anticipated, possibly because my coworkers are stodgier than I could possibly imagine.

Rock. Or something like it.

GOAL FOR THE WEEK! To use "Victorianindustrial" in a conversation with Fu-Master. This should be fun. Not as much fun as having my new EA EP (paid six months ago, aurgh!), but close.

Also, Kate Bush++ That is all.

Riddle me this, Batman. Anyone care to try to explain the earth-logic in this? Teresa Nielsen Hayden touches briefly on just a small sampling of the reasons why this makes no freaking sense!

Reportedly, New Orleans and DC also had massive cuts. Can anyone point me to any additional information to either corroborate this or not? Because this is almost too bizzare for me to believe, ABC News or not. I've come to expect this dull, stunned feeling of complete and total shock and disbelief when I read the news, but this is going a bit too far.

If anyone can direct me out of this bizzaro-world parody of a bad government and back into the real world, I'd really appreciate it, thanks.