"...ultimately Palfrey's death isn't only about feminism or the justice of her sentence or the hypnotic circus of it all. It is also about one woman alone in the shed next to her 76-year-old mother's trailer, deciding that the future seemed too much to bear.

Stripped of meaning and analysis and cultural contexts, it's very, very sad."

ha, wow! i'm not used to such positive, presidential things following the phrase "you know women..."

"You know women - when they say something is going to happen, it's going to happen."http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/

i'm as captivated by this story as i can be with anything celebrity-related. which isn't very much, but still. i watched juno and was like "whatever, they're just gonna break up." then i see this story, and i'm like "awwwww, how cute!!" i think the difference resides in the fact that there's really no innocence or naivety in the sarkozy/bruni ( Read more... )

got this from my boss.

http://www.news.com.au/perthnow/index/1,21581,5015022,00.html?9530=b822

heath ledger died at 28. creepy.

what might be even creepier is that it was all over the news only 1.5 hours after his remains were discovered. very weird times, ours are.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=4090093Read more... )

today i have to go to the trash bag store and the cloth store and the sewing machine store and the tissues with lotion in them store and the humidifier store.

but i'm sick and don't feel like doing anything. bleh.

a stuffing receipe that includes wood chunks!

http://find.myrecipes.com/recipes/recipefinder.dyn?action=displayRecipe&recipe_id=361522

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i hafta go xmas shopping now. how much does that suck? i'll let you know exactly how much when i get back. from the mall. on dec 23. yikes.