If the 3:07 train out of grand central is this crowded, the ones closer to 5 must be like those scenes of male penguins in the winter, huddled together without even a centimeter to spare...

More evidence that people who do this every day are a little crazy.

In the US, as of 2006, the poverty level for a single person was set at $9800 per year. I find that disturbing.

The World Health Organization, for the same year, set its poverty level at <$1 per day, or $365 per year.

That puts things in a very different perspective.

You lot are all getting Heiffer critters for the holidays again this year.

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A friendly meme, ganked from the Fairfield County contingent.

Reply to this post, and I will list three things I love about you. Maybe more than three. Then repost to your own journal and spread the love. Be advised that if I don't know you that well, they might be small things. And if I don't like you that well, they may be stupid things.

I'm still in La Jolla ( Read more... )

I must appease the insect gods. I have clearly done something to annoy them, because all of bug-kind, with whom I usually live in harmony, is after me this summer. First there was the assassin bug sting. That has finally healed, though there's a scar. Then there were the bees. Ditto, on both the healing and the scar. And then, last night, ( Read more... )

I just got a message from the dept. head's secretary's stand-in asking if I could come up for a meeting *tomorrow* at either 1 or 3 (my pick, depending on my schedule, stated as if by offering me two times within 2 hours of each other on the same day is being wonderfully flexible ( Read more... )

*soft, sad, slow music plays on an accordian or out-of-tune organ ( Read more... )

I walked into my office today and there was a bright red lobster balanced on top of my computer. His head was bobbling in the breeze of the newly opened door ( Read more... )

There is an immensely fuzzy caterpillar perched on one of the black-eyed susans that's on my desk. The caterpillar is only a few millimeters tall, but its hairs go up about a centimeter and a half, looking rather spikey, actually. In the time I've been on the phone, it has eaten most of one petal on the flower where it's lying. Now it's on to ( Read more... )