My parents' computer had 14, yes 14, viruses and trojans on it. You can tell how my week has gone. Not in the mood to write, but I wanted to bring you:

( The Whims )

Before I forget, a Happy Belated Birthday to the majority of my flist ( Read more... )

"For the nearly 3 million Americans allergic to peanuts, peanut oil and all products containing even trace amounts of peanuts, the holidays are their own 9th circle of hell." http://www.hometownannapolis.com/cgi-bin/read/2005/12_11-08/LIFRead more... )

A peanut-allergic 15 year old girl died in Quebec after kissing her boyfriend who had eaten peanut butter. Article hereI went to an allergist Monday, and had the gauntlet of skin tests done. Turns out I am not allergic to tree nuts or shellfish as my first allergist had us assume (he didn't want to test me for them, might have been cause I was ( Read more... )

In case I didn't already know that I look way younger than I am ( Read more... )

Saw this quote in a yahoo news artcle:

Alaska Airlines has put baseball-card-size prayer cards on hot-meal trays for 30 years "just to differentiate us from the competition," spokeswoman Amanda Tobin says.Now, I may be one of the few, but if I were flying in an airplane and a flight attendant handed me a tray with a prayer card, I think I would ( Read more... )

I hate it when people find ways to make the internet a hateful place full of arguing. It should be for entertainment and communication, not for fighting with people you don't even know ( Read more... )

Thought I'd share something amusing. The Emma Goldman Clinic here is like a Planned Parenthood, it provides gyno exams, free condoms, pregnancy advice, and abortions. Apparently Sunday (I went home so I didn't see it) there were about 70 protesting Pro-Lifers out in front of the clinic ( Read more... )

"You know the thing that makes a fantasy great is the possibility that it might come true and when you lose that possibility, just kind of sucks."

It's hard when you realize that your entire life has been dreaming, fantasizing of a certain future, and none of them can ever come true. You're told you can do or be anything you want, and you believe ( Read more... )

Well, so far this summer, I have ( Read more... )