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Seriously, though: what's with the penguins?
how are you feeling today?
It looks like rain now, which fills me with dread, since I forgot my umbrella. Okay, “dread” might be a strong word, but I seriously don't like getting wet without my prior consent. Such as, showers are fine, rain avec umbrella is fine, but sudden, unexpected downpours are not fine and if you want me […]
watch it wiggle, then see me eat it
Lift your hands in the air and wave them like you just don't care, in honor of 3-day weekends. I took several naps but also was able to cross quite a few things off the to-do list. LT and I rearranged an entire roomful of furniture (and the room makes SO MUCH more sense now: […]
365 degrees
Maybe this morning you ate some yogurt. Maybe you looked at the yogurt container and you thought, “Man, I wish this were bigger. I wish this yogurt container was 10 feet tall!” Although I can't personally enlarge your yogurt container (oh baby! that sounds naughty), I can show you a picture of a huge one.Yup, […]
flippers through armholes
Believe me when I say that I am not the sort of person who normally goes gaga over cuteness. However…OH SO CUTE! Although I wouldn't want to volunteer to help dress them. I'm sure the little darlings would squirm quite a bit.So what did I do this weekend? I went downstate (of course, to me […]
quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
I am so sick of Italian-Americans complaining about The Sopranos (no link necessary: what, have you been living in a hole?), and about the so-called negative stereotyping and blah blah blah. I am of Italian-American extraction (it's true. I was not born but extracted, like a juice. Check the records.) and I have these things […]
the jolly green giant has a bad day
Psychics and mattress stores. Chicago seems to have an extremely high concentration of psychics and mattress stores. There is one on every block, I swear. How can the local economy possibly support all of these psychics and mattress stores? Is there a microeconomist in the house?Because of LT's PhD thesis, which is on kind of […]
Boutros for me, Boutros for you
I have a conference call in a few hours, which is just one of the dumbest forms of communication ever invented. I suppose it has its uses, but I just find it silly. Everything takes effort today. There are people that I miss, and they're not even gone. I think longing is the quintessential emotion […]
your pants, they're so minty!
I've been frantically reviewing all the June issues of my journals today, like a super-busy little bee, and stupidly I left my tin of mints out on my desk while I worked. I tend to do things obsessively and out of nervous habit than out of any real desire. And I'm very oral (no jokes, […]
just in time, trying to save the world
If I were writing a science fiction or fantasy novel (which I would never do), I would be very tempted to use only the names of prescription drugs for all the proper nouns. “Once upon a time on the Planet Xanax, near the great Demerol Forest and the river Wellbutrin, King Haldol sat brooding in […]
rabbinical ramblings
Let's hear it for free Internet access from my hotel in Washington, DC, where I am for a science editor's conference. Rug, are you here? Wouldn't that be wild?The guest services booklet claims it's free, but there's a sign next to me in this kiosk (god I love the word “kiosk”) that claims it's $0.35 […]
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