Susan & John

I want to throw a party just so Susan & John can build a room full of paper flowers for me.

Cooooool. Girly. Cute dog, too. (Scroll to bottom of link to their site for pix)

Corner office? Corner this.

I am deeply, mortally offended by this book:

Nice Girls Don't Get the Corner Office 101 by Lois P. Frankel.

I know where Lois is going with this. Really, I do. I'm sure there's some good information here. I worked in a corporate environment for ten years and I know this goes on. This probably pisses me off because I DID some of this stuff.

She still rubs me the wrong way. If I want to bring doughnuts to a shitty meeting that wastes my time, I'll fill it with heavenly, heavily powdered calories. Lois be damned.

Sass...personified.

If the concept of "sass" came in the form of a person, it would be my niece, Emma (center), on the rooftop of Alfred's right before attending the Miley Cyrus concert.

iPhone image courtesy of her mom.

Birdie

As I was leaving school today, I found a little bird on the ground right outside of the back door to the journalism building. I'm pretty sure it ran into the building; it was jerking in a weird way and couldn't open its eyes half the time. It was so pitiful I scooped it up with a piece of matte board and took it to Central Animal Hospital for a mercy killing (they did confirm at the vet that it was very likely in pain and this was the best option). The little bird was very cute and quite sweet. And the folks at CAH were quite gracious.

Have you ever driven your car with a bird sitting on the dash? No?

Cake rage

Several things come to mind when viewing this image:

1. I am not meant to be a baker. Or, in the very least, I will never decorate cakes.

2. It has been demonstrated again and again that folks with multiple personalities have different handwriting styles depending upon who they are at the moment.

3. Road rage, according to Wikipedia, is aggressive or angry behavior by a driver of an automobile or other motor vehicle. Such behavior might include rude gestures, verbal insults, deliberately driving in an unsafe or threatening manner, or making threats. Road rage can lead to altercations, assaults, and collisions which result in injuries and even deaths.

I can say that,without a doubt, I experienced cake rage today. I started out all domestic and optimistic with the word "happy" and almost dug out the cake with my bare hands and threw it out the window by the time I got to "George." You can actually track my mood change here.

Take from this what you will.

Oh, and I promise those are neither (1) bleeding hearts nor (2) happy sperm. They are balloons.

Unconventional portraits

I love the fact that someone at the Library of Congress is scanning and uploading some seriously interesting things on Flickr. One of their collections gives us newspaper covers of the New York Tribune from 1909.

I love these portraits. Particularly: John S. Shea for Sheriff and Charles S. Whitman for District Attorney. And doesn't Mr. Mitchel have a smarmy air about him?

Jules Verne

I'm studying for a history exam right now and came across this photo. I think it's a pretty great one of Jules Verne (1878 by Nadar). He has crinkly Santa Claus eyes!