Sounds like a great movie, Hec. Wonder how long before the prudish pickets show up.

I do not belive in god. ( entity or entities )

I belive that the whole ( world) is greater than the sum of it parts ( life forms, enviorment, etc) I have some belief that loseing a life human , or a species diminishes the world.

My biggest problem with religions ( excluding those that feel they must impose thier viewpoints on me) is that goodness and behavoir seem to be directed from an outside source( god, fear of hell , or even karma). My ethics were taught to me. the real basic foundation is that you are good ( don't lie , cheat, steal, or hurt ) because it is right to be good. Most laws - are there to oil the works, keep things running smoothly. by laws I also include manners.

Culturally, I am christian. Holidays I celbrate , certain phrases I use, etc.

Never tell me I am immoral because I am not christian( or religious). My ethics are very high and under constant review. By me, the only person I have to live with all the time.

Well, that's something, Jessica.

I love that you can only detect cockroach pheromones with an actual cockroach antenna. There's something beautiful and elegant about that.

the real basic foundation is that you are good ( don't lie , cheat, steal, or hurt ) because it is right to be good.

I was taught (in a Christian context) that this is the highest good and have seen no reason to revise it.

Yeah, for the ethical laws, I was always taught "This is good, therefore G-d said to do it," not "G-d said to do this, therefore it is good."

In my family, I am pretty much the golden child with the smarts and all. The oldest child on my mother's side. The children on my dad's side are mostly in India and not as educated.

My husband's family is the same way. Most of the relatives back in Honduras are relatively poor and uneducated. BIL, very much their golden child, finshed his PhD mainly because it was expected of him. It brought him lots of anguish while he was finishing and now he works in a totally different area.

Luckily for DH, the military was strongly revered in the family and DH is an officer, so he sort of gets a pass on the whole super-education thing.

I love that you can only detect cockroach pheromones with an actual cockroach antenna.

Does Radio Shack carry those?

Clients!

TWO WEEKS AGO, the big client emailed me about upcoming grants. He mentioned one with a 2/21 postmark deadline. I looked on the grantor's website, and saw nothing whatsoever about such a deadline. On the contrary, it mentioned that applications would be available beginning 3/1. So I immediately emailed the client back to say, "Hey, my information is different than yours. Am I looking at the wrong grant? Let me know. Also, is this how you want to proceed with these other things?"

He eventually followed up on the other things, but didn't mention the 2/21 vs. 3/1 issue, so I foolishly assumed he'd checked the info and I was right.

JUST NOW he emails me about the 2/21 deadline. I still have no idea what he's looking at that has that date on it, but God help us if he's right and I'm wrong, or the foundation has two different programs and I'm looking at the wrong one! I don't want to write a complete grant application over the weekend! Why the hell couldn't he have paid attention to my email and confirmed this one way or the other TWO WEEKS AGO?

And he wants my input on whether the program budget looks appropriate! How the hell am I supposed to know? I'm the writer. I've never put on a dance production!

Yes, your insoles are farting.