Have Peanuts Hijacked YOUR Brain?

I think we can count Daria and Jane out on Peanut Butter Lovers' Day, and that goes double for Daria after the nut stand fiasco. And Jake's Thai peanut sauce. Honestly, did she ever have a good experience with peanuts?

Speaking of sales, today is also both Employee Appreciation Day and National Salesperson Day. If you see Theresa, tell her thanks...and apologize on behalf of the Fashion Club.

Fanfic Update!

• Birthday Blues, by YouthofOz (COMPLETE!): "'Hmmph. Cheap champagne. This must be a special occasion.' 'They didn't have anything decent at the liquor store. I didn't feel like making a fuss.'"


• Daria Ravenclaw: The Highland Years, by Meester_Lee (part 55): "The ride to school and day care was a somber one for the Morgendorffers. Stacy stayed behind with her parents, her absence creating missing space in the back seat."


• Daria's Makeover, by Meester_Lee (part 7): "It took them a little while to find the sorts of blouses that Daria wanted. Unlike her sister, Daria's visits to Cashman's had been so infrequent that she had yet to map out where everything was."


• Daria The Temptress, by WildDogJJ (part 7): "It was evening and Dr. Stennis was in bed with his wife, Amanda. Mrs. Stennis was a beautiful brunette who was 47 but could pass for 35."


• Daria Who? Last of the Time Cynics, by YouthofOz (COMPLETE!): "(The control room of the TARDIS. The Twelfth Daria, DeMartino, lies on the floor by the console, apparently dead. Then his flesh starts to glow orange and a you-tube clip show of deadth-bed flashbacks begins...)" (Part 2) (Part 3) (Part 4) (Part 5)


• The Date, by elainefr (part 9): "'Is Trent here?' Jane raised a brow at her friend. 'We talked the other day when I came to see you and I sounded like a complete and total idiot. I wanted to apologize.'"


• Erin Chambers, by OzFerret (part 19): "The alarm beeped insistently until an arm untangled itself from the bed sheets and smacked the clock into silence. A muffled curse emanated from the bed, followed by a tangle of red hair."


• Freefall, by atiyatortilla (parts 7 and 8): "Jamie always hated hospitals. It wasn't the cold sterility that bothered him but the lingering presence of death. They tried to mask it well with flowers and bright lights but none of that could hide the fact that many of the patients would never make it home." (Part 8)


• Home, by Rémi (COMPLETE!): "Tom's car. Tom is driving, a smug smile on his face. Quinn is riding shotgun and trying to put up a brave front, although her hands are nervously clutching the hem of her dress." (Part 6) (Part 7)


• Life Is A Four-Letter Word, by YouthofOz (part 2): "Once Sandi had completed her course of antibiotics and was able to remain conscious and lucid for more than five minutes at a time, it was time for her to go back to school."


• The New Waitress (Scenes No Daria fanfic should have: The Saga Goes On), by Shiva (COMPLETE!): "In the women's bathroom of Mom's Diner, two cynical teenager girls were talking."


• No Rain, by Lady Evil (part 36): "The stage in the Auditorium of Highland High held a portrait of Daria Morgendorfer on an easel. Her hideous visage glared at the gathered students, who didn't really care where they were, as long as it was out of class."


• Okay, Fabe, by Charles RB (COMPLETE!): "In a dingy bar in Newtown, thirty-one people sat around a square ring waiting for the first man out. The thirty-first waited more than most."


• Superiors, by ST91 (COMPLETE!): "General Rogers had spent the whole night awake. For some strange reason he could not write a satisfactory report of the events of these two days."


• Unnamed story (LLH Short Entries #2), by Roentgen (part 170): "'I don't like this,' Loida Ochoa said, 'I don't like this at all. I don't like being here, it's like, you know, going right into the heart of the enemy.'"