Sorry I accidentally hung up on you... your number isn't showing up on my phone, so I can't call back. :-(

Nutella s'mores.

Shockingly, Google reveals I am not the first person to think of this.

Hospitals can drastically cut down on the spread of infection within and outside the hospital, at small cost, by providing personnel with freshly laundered scrubs, yet most don't. [link found at Arielle's other blog] This should be common sense and the fact that it isn't is staggering. Why bother with laundry? We'll just give everyone antibiotics! ( Read more... )

To-morrow shall be my dancing day;
I would my true love did so chance
To see the legend of my play,
To call my true love to my dance;

Sing, O my love, O my love,
This have I done for my true love.

Then was I born of a virgin pure,
Of her I took fleshly substance
Thus was I knit to man's nature
To call my true love to my dance.

Sing, O my love... ( Read more... )

Emily Jordan Folger

I lived with visions for my company
Instead of men and women, years ago,
And found them gentle mates, nor thought to know
A sweeter music than they played to me.
But soon their trailing purple was not free
Of this world's dust, their lutes did silent grow,
And I myself grew faint and blind below
Their vanishing eyes. Then thou didst come---to ( Read more... )

"The other physicians know little of the arts; they resort to friendly, pleasing, charming words; they advise people with breeding and fine words; they set forth all things at length, delightfully, with distinct differentiations, and say: Come again soon, my dear sir; my dear wife, go and accompany the gentleman, etc. I say thus: What wilt thou? I ( Read more... )

"I have lost all sense of home, having moved about so much. It means to me now--only that place where the books are kept." --John Steinbeck

1 1/2 chicken breasts ( Read more... )

Me: The mouse [in my wall] is driving me crazy ( Read more... )