Only a few more hours of the office grind before I take a few days off for spring break, the annual descent into a hedonistic bacchinalia of promiscuity and alcohol poisoning daring to sleep in until 8am, putting a few more miles on the bike, and maybe hitting an amusement park with the kids.

Yeah, life isn’t a college stereotype anymore, but then, college was never a college stereotype for me. Still, it’s a welcome time away from the usual routine.

In any case, that’s what I’ll be doing for the rest of the week. In the meantime, here are a couple of interesting things to keep you occupied:

♦- this post on whatever starts with a cute dog picture, but the comments become a surprisingly enlightening discussion on the relative benefits of over-the-counter allergy medication. (if you want my Zyrtec, you’ll have to pry it from my cold, dead, pollen stained hands).

♦- As I suspected would eventually happen, the smartphone novelty has worn off. Today, I totally forgot to pick it up on the way out the door. My amazing portal to limitless information has now become completely routine enough for me to forget it.

♦- this kind of thing makes me really angry. Bullying is a serious problem for almost every kid who might be perceived as different (just ask this former fat shy bespectacled kid). The religous right could be a powerful force for promoting tolerance and “loving thy neighbor” here, but instead, are actively making things worse, especially for GLBT kids. Thankfully, there are great things like It Gets Better out there to counter this kind of thing.

♦ – I don’t watch a lot of reality television; but I’ve seen just enough to find a lot of humor in the AV club’s latest inventory of reality show clichés. I’m not here to make friends.

♦ –Oh. Dear. God. (though to be perfectly honest, I love the idea that someone else decided that Jennifer Walters deserved to be immortalized in Underoo form; it’s about time She-Hulk got some licencing love).

♦ – Of course, the best thing about Easter weekend? New Who.

♦ – Damnit, Carrie, stop releasing books! I’m two behind now, and can’t keep up!

♦ – I took the younger members of my brood to see the CG bird movie Rio on Saturday afternoon. The film itself I would characterize as aggressively mediocre (though to be fair, the licenced Angry Birds game is better than the original). What struck me most was the trailers beforehand – The sheer volume of CG animal movies being released that I’ve been totally unaware of is staggering. Once again, I realize cutting the cable was was one of the best decisions I ever made.

And with that, dear friends, I’m out.