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Comfy, juliana? Are you kidding me? I am proud to disclose my uglier fantasies for COMM validation, any day o' the week.

(That is to say, thank you.)

Does the heat lower your b.p.

According to Doc, the heat opens the blood vessels, which lets the B.P. drop. Depending on heat, it can happen pretty quickly. Doc didn't seem too concerned. "If it gets too bad, turn down the shower." Oh, well, OK.

Is there something specific, vw? I have have four big quote books in front of me, along with the severe overkill in English usage books.

I am full of gronk, which I need to shake because I have a pile of stuff to do. My eyes are full of gunk that doesn't want to wash out, so everything's fuzzy. I woke up from one of those dreams that you're glad to wake up from, in which I had moved into an apartment that had all these problems. The doors wouldn't lock properly and someone had made the dryer out of a leaf blower and when I woke up, someone had just stolen the water heater. My dream the night before, in which I was in an episode of the West Wing and I knew the White House chief of housekeeping was about to be fired because I had read the spoilers, was much less traumatic.

(edited because I can spell. Constructing coherent sentences, NSM)

vw, whatcha workin' on?

I'm trying to find *something* to engrave on Emily's birthday present. I'm about to put "30 years of Emily, December 28, 2004." But, really, I'd like something a little more interesting and thoughtful than that.

Yesterday afternoon I was extremely proud of myself for having turned a proposal around in 3 hours, not including minor corrections. Then I got a phone call to talk about the minor corrections and everything in my back went sproing! kerblooey! Today I can hardly walk and I can't hold the phone. I think this is going to be a snow day for me, too.

I went looking. This was my favorite quote: "As life runs on, the road grows strange", James Russell Lowell

Deena, I like that.

I'm still trying to track down the Alien Cat fanfic that she always rants about, to possibly quote part of that. But, I'm about to give up and just order the damn thing. I know she's gonna love the gift. I have no idea why I'm stressing about this part so much.

This quote reminds me of Emily:

It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter. -- Marlene Dietrich

RE: Yates case

Yates' lawyers argued last month before a three-judge panel of the First Court of Appeals in Houston that psychiatrist Park Dietz was wrong when he said he consulted on an episode of the TV show "Law and Order" involving a woman found innocent by reason of insanity for drowning her children.

After Yates was convicted, attorneys in the case and jurors learned no such episode existed, the AP reported.

Umm. The psychiatrist used a L&O episode as research, and the wrong part is that the episode didn't really exist? Was this the Lionel Hutz of shrinks, or is this common?