Yes, I too have succumbed to the demon that is Catblogging. But these two aren't mine. They belong to the friends we're staying with.

Here's Franklin:

And Arthur:

Bonus Lizardblogging:
Meet Norman:

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I need to work on my presentation for tomorrow, cut brownies, pack for CA, and clean up the house so the damn dog doesn't get into anything while we're gone (a friend is watching her and staying at the house, but still...)

I also need to go pick up my dissertation paperwork so they can sign it tomorrow so I can graduate......

Soooo.....OPEN THREAD..... I may pop in and add my two cents if I get a down minute.....otherwise, it's all you.

We'll be in CA from tomorrow night to Tuesday, but I'll have sporadic computer time, and I will definitely be checking email.....

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1 Have a safe trip, and good luck on the apartment hunt. Have a piece of toast for me at the brunch

Posted by: Ith at May 25, 2005 06:39 PM (nt+rp)

2 come on people! Talk!

Posted by: caltechgirl at May 25, 2005 09:58 PM (Yf8BQ)

3 No

Posted by: Jay at May 25, 2005 10:08 PM (8n5zS)

4 you just did!

Posted by: caltechgirl at May 25, 2005 10:13 PM (Yf8BQ)

5 Points to the top comment NYHA!

Posted by: Ith at May 25, 2005 10:14 PM (DCF12)

6 I'm jealous of the trip. There's something about it being all of like 45 degrees today and rainy that's making me fiercely homesick right about now... There's something so disorienting about it not being 95 degrees and dry as a bone at the end of May...

Posted by: Deb at May 25, 2005 10:38 PM (8n5zS)

7 Good luck, be safe and have fun!

Posted by: Sissy at May 25, 2005 11:06 PM (uXS+O)

8 Hey, I'll be thinking of you tomorrow morning! :-)

Posted by: Paul Burgess at May 25, 2005 11:08 PM (7EVyU)

9 Welcome back (for a while at least). Only 92º today, so it shouldn't be too much of a change. I hope you have as much fun today as this man: "Mr. Feynman; why is the sky blue?"

Posted by: Mr. Kurtz at May 26, 2005 04:13 AM (KHPaj)

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a pet peeve....

Rob-Amber's wedding is on CBS, and as is super predictable they wrote their own vows.

But aren't vows promises? I mean 3/4 of what Rob said was extolling Amber's virtues, and the family and friends made more of a promise than Rob or Amber in their vows.

No wonder people get divorced so often. They can't even make promises to each other at their wedding.
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On a more positive note, the minister was great. He made a nice blessing at the end.

And the bridesmaids' dresses were the same color as they were at my wedding. We should have gotten married at the beach. Then we wouldn't have had to worry about not being able to match dye-able shoes.....

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I've been feeling like @ss all afternoon. Now I know why.
3pm: Sunny 72 degrees F
4pm: Raining 58 degrees F

I love rain, but this is crazy. It's freakin' May. Last year this week was in the 90s!

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Check this out:
Michele tells us the story of Canada's private war against innumeracy: Give 'em an incentive, eh?

I'm sorry ma'am, no free shoes. You couldn't tell me what [(22+16)-18]*8/2 is.

Give me a freakin' break.

Evidently to win a prize in Canada you have to be smart enough to do strange math problems.... I hadn't seen this before, but according to this, it's been around a while.

Heh. It's like Jim Crow literacy tests for voting in the US in past days. Just as stupid, and frankly, in this case, silly. Wonder when all the liberals are going to rise up against this flagrant discrimination against the math impaired.....

Can you imagine what lottery sales would be like in this country if you had to answer math problems to collect your jackpot? Funding education would be a moot argument since the lotteries wouldn't make any money. Not that all Americans are stupid, mind you, it's just that I think most would resent such a test.

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Just saw an ad on VH1 for Alanis Morrissette's new album/tour...I mean old album and tour. Heck, I guess what ever works, right?

If it ain't broke, don't fix it, I guess. Or maybe just go with what works......

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I'm using FoxyTunes to listen to my musica while I check out the net, and I've got winamp on random, and it keeps spewing out great songs for singing loud (DH isn't home yet)

right now: The B-52s "Love Shack"

Earlier:
Shawn Colvin "Sunny Came Home"
Beach Boys "Kokomo"
U2 "Sunday Bloody Sunday"
New Order "Blue Monday"

Interestingly, 3 of these latter songs are among my favorite songs of all time...

Heh. It just switched to Like A Prayer, which is hella good for singing loud and alone.

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Chapel Hill is devastated after learning this weekend of the deaths of James and Alison Sapikowski, who were long-time local business owners and the "parents" of the UNC club hockey team. The couple were shot to death in their home, probably two weeks ago, by their 16 year old son, Adam, a student at posh local private school The Durham Academy.

Adam Sapikowski shot his father 3 times, and his mother twice, with a .410 shotgun.

Somehow, the crime managed to remain hidden for two weeks. Police were only called after an out-of-town relative became alarmed. They began looking for the "missing" family, but a routine search of their home turned out to be anything but. The family had never left town. Adam Sapikowski was staying in a local hotel while his parents bodies decomposed on the floor of their bedroom.

It's not only the parents that are sickos, sometimes. Let's all be thankful he didn't take that shotgun to school, too.

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You may have already noticed the lovely little countdown clock in the sidebar on the left which tells you how long I have until my frontal lobotomy PhD thesis defense, which will take place May 26, 2005 at 10 am.

If you want your own happy fun PHP clock, go here.

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1 Ah, May 26! I'll be keeping you in my thoughts. I remember well the day of my own defense, up the road at Duke: December 5, 1991. There I was, striding in to campus early in the morning, unaccustomedly wearing a suit and tie. It was the 200th or 300th anniversary of the birth of some famous musician, I can't remember who now; it was also the day that Gorbachev announced that, in just a few weeks, the Soviet Union would be going out of business. But my mind was on other things. I remember the departmental secretary trying to reassure me. I remember going over to the library to make a last-minute acid-free photocopy of the page my committee members would have to sign. I remember my life flashing before my eyes. May 26. Like I say, I'll be keeping you in my thoughts.

Posted by: Paul Burgess at May 02, 2005 08:53 AM (7EVyU)

2 You're going to do a brilliant job. (How soon before you go to med school?) :^)

Posted by: shrinkette at May 02, 2005 10:54 AM (RG2Xa)

3 Wow, I can't even imagine. Good luck and hopefully the next few weeks will go fast for you. Or would you like it to go slow for more time? Well, whatever it is that you want, I wish that for you :-)

Posted by: Sissy at May 02, 2005 11:02 AM (PjGEe)

4 Thanks, everyone! I need the encouragement. I'm not worried about the meeting, but the writing sucks

Posted by: caltechgirl at May 02, 2005 11:08 AM (5VQpT)

5 Heh, this is kind of insider joke stuff, but in talking to my mom tonight, I found out the family court date for the Caruthers mess is also May 26. The end of a couple eras, eh?

Posted by: Ben at May 03, 2005 01:14 AM (0ypJF)

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