The great and all knowing F-list informs me that a certain softly_sweetly has a birthday today. Or, perhaps had, though I see no problem with extending into the remaining time zones. Happy Birthday!

Happy birthday femmequixotic! And anyone else who happens to have a birthday today!

Oh. My. God.

Go watch this. Now.

Watched it? Good. Please join me in being blown away.

This is the best theory I have seen yet for the current - Amazon rank - debacle.

And that is all I have to say.

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My dad came home with the news today that the News and Observer is going into their third round of layoffs and consolidating to two daily sections. They also stopped paying into their pension plan. He now thinks they'll be among the majority of mid-sized papers that won't survive the recession ( Read more... )

Around this time last year, I went in to Student Health hoping to switch from an extremely expensive medicine to a less pricey one and I walked out with a problem that would lead me through a year of migraines, allergic reactions and generally unacceptable answers from the specialists I went to. By November it was clear to me that Western medicine ( Read more... )

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I've finally gotten through reconstructing as many of my playlists as are reconstructable, and come up with a list of what's missing from this summer's round of magical moving music ( Read more... )

I'm still awake, so it still counts!!

Happy Birthday, wild_stars!! You're amazing and I don't know what I would do without you. :) I hope you had a wonderful day!