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I watched the season premiere of Angel last night. I thoroughly enjoyed it. It's the first time (maybe second) I've enjoyed Harmony's character. She's usually ruined for me because of her voice and this girl named Harmoney I went to school with who would get really, really mad if you spelled her name without the "e". It's not my fault her mother didn't know how to spell harmony. However, in this episode, Harmony provided all of the comic relief. And she did it well! Go Mercedes McNab! I didn't think I would miss Cordelia, but I did for at least the first half of the show. But then I got so much into the story that I forgot about her.

I really need to get the rest of Angel on DVD to fill in the holes. It shouldn't be too bad. After all, I didn't start watching Buffy until season 6, and I still loved it.

Stauche and Cry should be hitting town sometime this afternoon or evening. Can't wait to see them!

Am I annoying?

We're having a fish fry here at work tomorrow. Last month some utility managers came to town for leadership training and while they were here they went up to Lake Erie to go fishing. They caught lots of fish and it was prepared and frozen immediately.

So we've got three people in charge of planning these little corporate office events. They've been thawing out the fish for two days now (I heard one of them compare thawing the fish to thawing a turkey). They've decorated the lunch room with balloon fish tied to the ceiling and paper fish taped to the windows. I just went up to get a coke when I see they've gotten their giveaways.

The giveaways are bettas. My favorite fish. I've had two in my life. One lived for three years (he was actually taken care of for two of those years by Marilee) and the other I've had for two years (he's still alive). Here's the problem, though. They've put them in the Lily Vase setup. Also known as the Vase of Death. I've had conversations about bettas with one of these women before. Here's how it went:

Her: I can never keep my bettas alive.
Me: Oh, they're not that hard. Put them in still water, feed them "Betta Bites" once a day, change their water every month and they'll live for three years or so.
Her: Hmmm...

So now I see these setups and I'm like, "Y'know...that's awfully pretty, but it's a good way to kill the fish." And the woman mentioned above goes, "Well, my neighbor has had one for several months." And the other two just blow me off, too.

So this is where my subject line comes in. Am I being annoying? It kills me to think that these fish will suffocate and starve to death because no one bothered to do their homework before buying them. And who gives fish as gifts anyway? Actually, that's how I got my two bettas. The first one was great. Marilee gave it to me because I couldn't have my cat and she felt I needed a pet. The one I've got now was given to me in a Secret Santa thing we did for work. The girl who gave it to me had it before names were even drawn. Bad gift. No cookie. I didn't really want this second fish, but I can't stand to think it would die because of me, so I take care of it. So now three people who may have no idea how to take care of bettas are going to be given them with no instructions, no food, nothing. I certainly hope I don't win one of them, but I'm tempted to just take all three from the winners just so I can pull the plants off the top of the vases and at least give the poor things some air.