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Gakked from annef but, like her, I’m not tagging anyone in particular. If you read this, consider yourself tagged! 🙂 Each player of this game starts off with 10 weird things/habits/little known facts about yourself. People who get tagged need … Continue reading →

Astronaut sets women’s spacewalk record You go, Sunita! It’s just about cold enough here to freeze ammonia on contact. Right now it’s 18° F out (that’s -8° C) with a wind of about 23 mph (37 kph) roaring through the … Continue reading →

…when you’ve been sitting at your computer for hours right next to two unshaded windows, and you only realize that it’s snowing outside when you look at the local weather online and read that it says so. (In my pitiful … Continue reading →

I’ve taken this before, but I think my answers were different this time…I answered truthfully the way I feel at the moment. Gakked from musiquephan:

Molly Ivins passed away today from cancer. I’m really going to miss her columns. So is my dad, who is one of her greatest fans. Progressives–and women–have lost one of their most witty, intelligent, knowledgable and uncompromising voices today. I … Continue reading →

I was watching live when Barbaro won the Kentucky Derby last May. I was at work that afternoon, but one of the shelter guests and I watched the race on TV. A couple of weeks later when the Preakness was … Continue reading →

Here’s my riff (not joking) on the borderline quiz. I actually test out rather high on a different personality disorder, but here’s my real answers to the questions for this one: You are afraid of being abandoned. Not in the … Continue reading →

Gakked from annef: BOOKWORM: 1. Grab the nearest book 2. Open the book to page 123. 3. Find the fifth sentence. 4. Post the text of the next 3 sentences on your blog along with these instructions. 5. Don’t you … Continue reading →

Okay…on a day when the news is devoted to gloomy analyses of the implications of Bush’s State of the Union address, I needed this. From Yahoo Science news: Scientists can’t get sloth to move Scientists in the eastern German city … Continue reading →

Sort of gakked from sbweber…which means, I went to look at the tests she did and decided to do some different tests instead. Feel free to gak. 🙂