Now this is funny.  I mean, seriously?  Who would've thought to steal the thing, take it on a grand ole' tour, and then return it, complete with a scrapbook of its adventures?  Awesomsauce...and props to the "thief" for being so clever. :)

You're so vain, you probly think this song is about you...really??  REALLY?  Do newsfolk not have editors ( Read more... )

I stepped on a wasp this morning. *shudder*  I'm walking barefoot in the backyard (which, my father would have happily pointed out, had he been present, that walking barefoot was my first mistake), and I take a step only to feel a sharp stinging (which I assumed meant that I had stepped on one of the 10 million thistles in my backyard).  So, I lift ( Read more... )

I'm sitting there, minding my ER desk, going about my business, when a somewhat familiar, stately, smartly dressed woman walks through my ER doors (mind you, I've never met this woman, but I've spent enough time seeing her her photograph on the "list of notable faces" bulletin board next to the cafeteria for the past 6 years to know who she is).  ( Read more... )

During my recent convalescence (in which I ate exactly nothing for an entire week), I apparently managed to drop 10 lbs...which certainly isn't  healthy, nor was it intended, but now that I've discovered this startling link between not eating and losing weight, you can probably expect to see my name on the cover of the next issue of Science.

Also ( Read more... )

 I swear if  I don't stop getting called in to cover for my coworker (who's taking "sick days" to flit around the country with her boyfriend) on my only day off each week, heads are going  to roll (or specifically, one head in particular is going to roll).  GEARGH.

Also, The Town Where Death Is Verboten.  Weird.

Well...they said it was going to be a blizzard...and boy were they right.  The snow is higher than the tops of my neighbors' cars.  I mean, I grew up in northwest Ohio where it's flat as a pancake and the snow routinely drifts higher than cars, but I've never seen it actually snow this much before ever (primarily because I'm not old enough to ( Read more... )

Thai fast food sellers are enjoying a boom in rat sales, as people learn to love the taste of the rodent.
While rat has long been eaten in Thailand's poorer northern regions, a growing number of the country's roadside vendors are now serving it up.

The rats are drowned and sold uncooked or ready to eat, with happy customers purchasing rat meat ( Read more... )

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7227861.stm

Am unsure of the implications of or my thoughts on such an announcement.   However, now that I've read the article and given it some consideration, I suppose that's one way to make OT3 babies...

Happy Pancake Day  Fat Tuesday!!

I am once again, as per usual, astonished (although why such things continue to amaze me, I've no idea) that none of my Midwesterner friends know that you're supposed to have pancakes on Pancake Day  Fat Tuesday...  Oh well, more for me!  :)

I may say that if they are gloomy, it is not for want of life.
~ a tourist to Italy in the 1840's on the flea-ridden Perguian hotel beds