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[pmcd9]

Somehow my mom has hidden until just now that she has been hoping I will move back to North Carolina eventually. Sorry, mom.

Poor mama, she misses her boy.

[theinevitable]

Today my boss sent us a panicky email saying she thinks we are going to run out of money before the project is done. At this point it is insane to me that I've been working for her for 9 months with this little to show for it. This current work (making a slideshow summarizing our findings) is... something I could have done alone in a week or two, I think. But the problems of deciding everything practically by committee and people undoing each others' work (oh, why did Dan make everything size 14 font? I'd better make it 12 again) it has been weeks and weeks of 4 people doing it.

She has explained herself multiple times, but I cannot figure out why we have spent weeks going back and forth about layout changes, instead of making sure all of the content is right and then having 1 person do the formatting for all of it at once.

The good news is: when I mention her name to people at job interviews they know who she is and they are impressed.

So apparently the working strategy of "keep starting over from scratch every few months" eventually results in good work. Maybe.

[Carlos del Vaca]

Gotta love an e-mail about a work event that says "we look forward to see you there!"

Sent by the same person who previously e-mailed me that the event was "Tuesday, April 5." (4/5 being a Wednesday on my calendar.)

[Victoria Waterfield]

ALSO, not wearing green today, any input on my style decision will result in my "Fuck The Dirty Irish Global Conspiracy To Make Green OK" spiel.

Meanwhile, one of my asshole Facebook friends proudly posted about how he's wearing orange today.

St. Patrick's Day is one of those strange holidays where the only winning move is not to play.

[Carlos del Vaca]

You might wanna check your calendar, Mayor.

Herpy derp. The original e-mail said "Tuesday, April 6." SHE FUCKED UP NOT ME DAMMIT

[Carlos del Vaca]

A peripheral FB friend posted the banana-kiwi hybrid video, apparently in earnest. If it was a closer friend who I interact with regularly I would drop the Snopes link right away. For someone I rarely interact with, it seems dickish. I dunno.

[pmcd9]

I love St. Patrick's Day, but I celebrate an old fashioned version of it which involves wearing green and saying Faith n' Begorah to everyone. Also playfully pinching anyone not wearing green. I'm not one of those get drunk at 7 am types.

[KeithHernandez]

I'm not one of those get drunk at 7 am types.

Luckily I had an excuse this Thursday.  (There is a joke here but that's the best I can do)

I did have a beer and drive around listening to the pogues, but I legit didn't know it was st paddys.  Then my neighbor texted me and I realized it was.  Then I felt good about my decisions.

Then I listened to another pogues record when my roommates got home.  Rum, Sodomy and the Lash is so fuck*ng good.

[pmcd9]

I didn't even listen to any Irish music today. I'm failing at being Irish.

[jaydub]

I was laughing at myself for having the thought, "I've been listening to Dropkick Murphy's for the past 3 months and now everyone's bandwagoning".  To be clear, I've been listening to them far longer than that, but I've been on a jag recently, fueled by radio apps that take an artist you like and find "similar artists" and play their songs too.  No one else really sounds like the Murphys though.

n.b. My mother's maiden name is Murphy.  And the Wallaces I come from are from Northern Ireland.  And Robert Wallace married Margaret Linehan.  And my mom's red hair came from the Jacobsen side of her family (from Norway).  And the Vikings spend 600 years pillaging/marrying/settling Ireland.  And bringing red hair to the Emerald Isle. 
I married an American mutt, though.  Whose grandmother was a Moran. And has an ancestor named Linehan - which seems like an interesting genealogical puzzle to pursue someday.

Anyway, I like St. Paddy's day.  Had some Bushmill's with my wife to celebrate.  And then boned.
bone..bone...bone

[theinevitable]

The parts I know of my dad's family are Irish. The ones I get my name from were snobby English people though.

I hate the hell out of that whole "irish + punk" scene. I can't put my finger on why.

[KeithHernandez]

The parts I know of my dad's family are Irish. The ones I get my name from were snobby English people though.

I hate the hell out of that whole "irish + punk" scene. I can't put my finger on why.

Cause they aren't really Irish or punk?  The pogues are the exception that proves the rule and also dicks for starting it?

[jaydub]

No, no!  The musical styles complement each other really well..especially when they're self aware enough to pull in some Country riffs (on account of Scots/Irish Appalachia).

[theinevitable]

I guess for me it is the stuff I like the least about punk combined with the stuff I like the least about folk. I feel the same way about Uncle Tupelo.

(what i'm listening to is leaking)

[theinevitable]

warning Wombat: the NYC housing & vacancy survey (which I'm analyzing at work) found some white people paying $3,500 a month for an apartment in the Bronx near the zoo.

...might be some kind of insane error though, almost zero people they surveyed in the Bronx are paying over $2,000. And mostly way below that.

It's interesting, the number of neighborhoods that are meeting my (informal) criteria for "gentrifying" is pretty small. But in those neighborhoods it's pretty stark. In the northern part of Crown Heights 50% of white renter households pay more than $2,000 a month... and pretty much zero percent of non-white renters.

(this could also be an effect of their "neighborhood areas" being too large. I bet a lot more white people are renting closer to the park, where it's more expensive.)