5 things, OH MY GOD I'M MELTING edition

[truepenny]

1. It is disgustingly hot today. Thank goodness for air-conditioning.

2. Think good thoughts for me tomorrow at 11; I'm interviewing with a temp agency.

3. These caracal kittens are just stunningly beautiful. (Watch the video to see their even more stunning parents.)

4. So I'm behind the curve (as per usual), but I have finally discovered Hyperbole and a Half (origin of "CLEAN ALL THE THINGS!"). My favorite entry is probably The Alot Is Better Than You At Everything (it also makes me wonder if alots live in alotments), but The God of Cake is a close runner-up, and the better pain scale made me cry with laughter. (Also, an honorable mention to one of her older posts, "Thing of the Day: Uterus. Rating: NOT AWESOME," for obvious reasons.) But I love the alot. I want to give it cookies, and oh believe me, I will be thinking of it in bad English-usage situations from here on out.

ETA: jenavira has alertly pointed me toward instructions for making your own alot.

5. And finally, a passage I have had to excise from an essay I'm working on, but which I love so much I have to SHARE IT WITH THE WORLD:

The difference between a murder ballad and a revenge tragedy goes like this. In a murder ballad, Johnny does Frankie wrong and Frankie shoots Johnny; in a revenge tragedy, Johnny does Frankie wrong, and when Frankie goes to shoot Johnny, she misses and kills the brother of Johnny's new girlfriend instead.

And Wacky Hijinks Ensue.

Thank you. I feel better now.

Comments

[redbird]

Good luck tomorrow.

[emblazonet.livejournal.com]

I draw alots in my journal. I have an alot of list, and an alot of sulk, and I think a few others. I was theorizing that baby alots are called 'alittles.'

[jenavira.livejournal.com]

And now, you can make your own alot (http://backofthebookshelf.tumblr.com/post/7301787168/randomampersand-how-to-make-a-stuffed-alot-via).

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

And here I was just thinking I needed a plushie alot.

[uilos.livejournal.com]

EEEE!!!!!! Now I have to go hunt up some fur fabric.

[animeserena.livejournal.com]

The pain scale is my favorite :) I keep going back to it every time I'm feeling horrible, and I say to myself, "At least it isn't too serious for numbers."

[bad-latin.livejournal.com]

Thank goodness for air-conditioning.

Ours is not working. I think I have turned from a solid into a bubbling, steaming liquid.

(Actually, I feel like I can't complain, because we also had to survive last summer with no AC, and that was in Knoxville. But I do hope the apartment people can fix it, or I may actually just lie down on the ground and dramatically give up on life.)

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

No air-conditioning in Knoxville is like a Biblical plague. Plague of Frogs, Plague of Locusts, Plague of Sweat.

Good luck with your maintenance people!

[opera142.livejournal.com]

Your icon made me grin this_______________much.

[heresluck]

Sending of good thoughts commences... now! From me, anyway; the cats are mostly sending vibes of melty sleepiness.

[girlpunksamurai.livejournal.com]

I has no air conditioning -_- live on the third floor and the windows were designed weird so units won't fit and portable air conditioning is too expensive. I live on the 3rd floor in a shoebox. There is no elevator. That is all >.>

Oh, good luck on your interview tomorrow! Gamberet!

[farmgirl1146.livejournal.com]

It's 61 degrees in Kitsap -- generally in the Seattle area. I'd happily take 10 or 15 degrees from you.

[gwendolynflight.livejournal.com]

That is the most cogent description of what constitutes a revenge tragedy I've ever read. Take that, Gordon Braden!

[swan-tower.livejournal.com]

Those are some remarkably chill kittens. I wonder if caracals are notably even-tempered or what. (Maybe they just cut out all the video of the kittens bending space and time in an attempt to escape their keepers' hands.)

[melonaise.livejournal.com]

Wishing you and Elizabeth Bear were going to be at http://www.dragoncon.org this year... but still thrilled that Tempering of Men will be out soon!