Ganked from CB's FB:
"there is an expiry date on blaming your parents for steering you in the wrong direction"

A few minutes into our parent/teacher conference this morning, I realized that I was wearing two headbands. Like, one had gotten nestled inside the other and I didn't notice. I'd been wondering where the nestled one had gone to.

This morning, I had my first dream with my mom in it since she died. She and my dad lived in apartment next door to us, and we were hiding from a Hungarian mob. Nonsensical, yes, but it wasn't one of visitation-feeling dreams that I've had of "my" previous dead.

(No, not Steelers' Super Bowl championships!)

My sweet timothy_tim is six today. Happy birthday, my angel! I'm so proud of your personality, your thoughtfulness, and your curiosity.

http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=1153

The doctor who sparked the scare over the safety of the MMR vaccine for children changed and misreported results in his research, creating the appearance of a possible link with autism, a Sunday Times investigation has found ( Read more... )

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From a Pittsburgh friend's Facebook status ( Read more... )

Potential earworm alert.

Ganked from dpolicar:
88 Lines About 44 Presidents

Scene: Today, at the bus stop.
(Bus heads towards bus stop.)
xine, to other waiting parents and siblings: THE BUS IS FINALLY HERE!
(Bus drives by.)
xine: KHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN!
Non-geeky mom: Uh...
xine: Uh... it's a Star Trek thing.