I've never been shy about my dislike for my boss (Curt, as I like to call him). In fact, shortly after I started with my position, a coworker and I invented a game called Keep Away From Curt. The goal of the game was to avoid contact with Curt for as long as possible. The person able to hold out the longest wins.

Before now, the longest streak on record was 2 days, 3 hours with no calls or e-mails or awkward cubicle visits.

As of now, the new record is:

21 days without a single spoken word to me
36 days without a single e-mail to me

I keep meaning to write a real blog but life here has just been so crazy! I'm sorry for being a sucky token female blogger -- by now, GNN should be flooded with emo, self-hating posts about shitty bands, declarations of love for Johnny Depp, and recipes for cupcakes nobody will ever make.

In any event, I've been busy. Here's what I've been up to:

1) Travel: Georgia, Pittsburgh, the UK, Berlin, Denmark, Paris, Belgium, Minnesota, Kansas, Missouri, some places more than once...

2) Work: Still sucks...

Demonoid.com is online again, after a few days of downtime. The cause? Legal threats from CRIA, the RIAA's "outreach program" in Canada. This comes after the disastrous BREIN fiasco, only a few months ago, when Demonoid was forced to move their servers to Canada, in an attempt to find safe haven.

Fall is wonderful for a lot of reasons -- the crispness in the air, all the stupid high school kids going back to school and getting out of my favorite hang outs, a drop in heating and cooling bills for a month or two before winter, and the end of road construction season, to name a few.

But...those are not my favorite things about fall. Below are my ten favorite "fall-y" things." Check 'em out. They're the awesome-o.

10) Autumn rain
9) Halloween candy
8) Tailgaiting parties
7) Pumpkin muffins with cream cheese frosting
6) Sweaters + rolled up jeans
5) Chai tea lattes

Today we remember the thousands of mothers, fathers, sons, daughters, brothers, sisters, friends, and heroes who perished in the September 11th attacks six years ago.

2,974 lives cut short. Another 30 souls missing and presumed dead.

hey everyone... sorry it's been so long since i last wrote! i've been over here in berlin all alone and working like a dog. actually, it's been kind of nice because i've gotten to spend a lot of time thinking, and i've started running again, something i used to love to do.

and with that in mind, i thought i'd share my top 15 jams for running!

here they are, in order --

15) no sleep til brooklyn - the beastie boys
14) take me out - franz ferdinand
13) remember the name - fort minor
12) ready steady go - paul oakenfold
11) unicorn - apoptygma berzerk (fairlight children remix)

Since I completely murdered the podcast this week, I present to you the next best thing, namely, densy and I singing happy b-day to one of our favorite Norwegians, the very special INTERNETZ girl Stephy!

i did a google search the other day for geeky pickup lines and i kept seeing the same 35 lines or so regurgitated again and again. and though some of them were awesome (my favorite: you compute me), most were way too nerdy to be cool at all. i guess i could have made a compilation of the best of those and sifted out the crappy lines -- but that's lame.

instead, with a little help from zeekay, i came up with about 15 brand fucking new pickup lines, geek-style. however, even i, booty, geek bombshell extraordinaire, am not always smooth (hey, that's part of beeing a geek!). so, i picked the BEST of my lines and here they are, just for you!

irc -- internet relay chat -- otherwise known as the coolest way to keep in touch with other geeks ever. seriously, if you don't know what irc is, you best inform yourself, fool. and here's why:

1) you can't really call yourself a geek if you don't use irc. says who, you ask? says me. why, you ask? because everyone uses aim, msn, yahoo, trillian, gmail chat, and facebook/myspace posts to keep in touch. you gotta differentiate yourself in an ever-geekier world.

i have a huge crush on ice-t. for those of you that know me, you know how serious it is. that all i wear are ice-t fan shirts, that i send him roses once a week...

and really, there's no room for another man in my life. particularly not anyone from this site.

just wanted to get that out there. i know there's some doubt about my fidelity to ice-t. had to to clear it up.