So, I was listening to NPR this morning on my drive in to work, like the good, young, liberal female that I am, and I heard a story about facebook. Apparently we're not part of an elitist (where "elitist = 10mil members) online association anymore--FACEBOOK HAS GONE PUBLIC. Now ANYONE can join. They interviewed some college chick at USC and she ( Read more... )

This time the day after tomorrow, I'll be in LA for a week's time. I would like it to be Wednesday already, but I suppose I can be happy with it being Monday.

I'm reading The Moviegoer again. I was going to read A Summons to Memphis again, but I can't find it, nor could I find my copy of The Collected Stories of Peter Taylor. So The Moviegoer ( Read more... )

1. Budgets and unreadable handwriting can both go lick a nut. We're working in EXCEL--so every line is numbered. Instead of writing in between the lines and over the printed information, maybe we could try writing down the row # on another sheet of paper, with the corresponding information that needs to be changed next to the row number. Then I ( Read more... )

Have you noticed that it's getting darker a little earlier now? And the leaves are looking sort of yellow-ish green on some trees. I'm a little sad--mostly happy--but still a little sad. Goodbye summer.

There's a road in Ellijay, GA named Bible Baptist Road. There are apples in Ellijay. The name Ellijay is, itself, fun to say ( Read more... )

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I am drinking mintwater and it is both odd and tasty--sort of like drinking a mojito without the alcohol.

I suppose there is more to be updated than that--but that will do for now.

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I read an article in the NYTimes and now I know more than I've ever known about Manatees. For instance, manatees have toenails on their front flippers. They can also grasp things with their nose...area...like an elephant.

And, yes, apparently they have violent "gang rape"-like sex. The article didn't go into too much detail on that area.


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Apparently, Pluto is no longer a planet.

Much-maligned Pluto doesn't make the grade under the new rules for a planet: "a celestial body that is in orbit around the sun, has sufficient mass for its self-gravity to overcome rigid body forces so that it assumes a ... nearly round shape, and has cleared the neighborhood around its orbit ( Read more... )