My worst nightmare has come true: I have to go Christmas shopping on Christmas Eve.
Surrounded by hundreds of other people who waited until the last minute to buy their holiday gifts (I have a legitimate reason, I was low on funds and today was Pay Day), will I be able to survive the night without pushing someone out of the way to get the last ( Read more... )

When you were in high school, were you part of the "Elite" crowd? And at the end of the year, when yearbooks were distributed, were you approached by some loser unknown to you, with a sad little yearbook in his/her arms that hadn't collected even one solitary signature? And did you take the yearbook, and write something generic like, "I don't know ( Read more... )

I hope today is better than yesterday, in which I was late for work and consequently had a helmet-hair/mullet coiffure (since I didn't have time to do anything with it ... and let's not even get into what my makeup looked like), then before 10 a.m. I had spilled cologne on myself and had to go around the rest of the day smelling like Jean Naté. ( Read more... )

I hate Mondays so much that I am going into work today and putting in six hours, just so I can have tomorrow off. That means I'm going to miss On Being Selfish and Pick of the Week on Radio 4, and also Wait, Wait ... Don't Tell Me on NPR. Oh well, I can always pick them up later in the online archives.
At least I'll get to hear Go4It, which is frostie's ( Read more... )

You Are the Investigator 5 You're independent - and a logical analytical thinker. You love learning and ideas... and know things no one else does. Bored by small talk, you refuse to participate in boring conversations. You are open minded. A visionary. You understand the world and may change it.
What number are you?

Yeah, I' ( Read more... )

At 6 a.m. yesterday, I was one of the first people at my polling place. I knew in my heart that John Kerry didn't have a snowball's chance in Hell of winning the election, but I still held out hope. Mostly I was just thrilled to be a part of it all. My voice was lost in the other hundred-million-odd votes that were cast yesterday, but it was still ( Read more... )

Current Electoral Count
Bush: 254
Kerry: 252
This will probably change while I am at work, and we have no radio or television there. My apologies if this is inaccurate later today.
Also (from this story) ...
"One in 10 voters were casting ballots for the first time and fewer than 10 percent were young voters, hardly the groundswell that experts ( Read more... )

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GET OUT THERE AND VOTE TODAY.

Happy Halloween.
If I'd had more time to plan a costume (and a party to wear it to), I'd have gone as Rick from The Young Ones.