Damn. My psych prof said there is more research out there that I haven't found in my search for my final project. So, I just tried to search using the terms she gave me. It came up with one article, and it's not a study, so I can't use it (it's a review article). Guess I'm gonna just have to go with what I have. But now I'm frustrated.

Gawd, why do I keep on having to tell you people? - there is no spoon.

No one can be told, tommyrot. We have to see it for ourselves.

It's raining! How lovely. For a change, the water management folk are looking nervously at the mountains because of how much snow is up there. They're hoping it warms up enough that the melt comes down in a long, easy flow. Otherwise, late April/May gets here, and it all lets go at once. This leads to rivers on streets and such. Me, I'm evil, because if idiot rich folk build houses on flood plains, they deserve what happens to them. "Oh, but it hasn't flooded in twenty years, what could happen?" Weather cycles, people! Learn them, love them!

vw, that review article might reference studies -- can you skim the article to see if it references studies so that you can then look for those studies?

Does the review article cite any studies you could search for specifically, vw?

Hee! Great minds think alike. I'm doing that as we speak or type or something.

Not gonna beat myself up, but I really should have done this earlier than two days after the assignment was due. Not my most effective move.

Gawd, why do I keep on having to tell you people? - there is no spoon.

No one can be told, tommyrot. We have to see it for ourselves.

YAY!

Ahem.

-t, why is the goat your totem? If it's too personal, no worries, but I always love finding out this kind of stuff.

In royal wedding news, the guest list for the blessing is out.

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The invited guests also include actors Kenneth Branagh and Richard E. Grant, "Rumpole of the Bailey" author John Mortimer and veteran broadcaster David Frost.

Since when has Kenneth been a hobnobber with royals?

OK, so I'm a royal wedding geek. I think Charles and Camilla are cute.

-t, why is the goat your totem? If it's too personal, no worries, but I always love finding out this kind of stuff.

It's not too personal, it's just jumbled and hard to explain. But I will try. When I was in High School, and writing Bad Adolesent Poetry, I read somewhere that Robert Frost's wife (I think it was Frost, might've been Sandburg) supported him for years and years by raising prize-winning goats. I became absolutely enamored of the idea. I've done quite a bit of research and will someday own at least a couple of goats (though I am now also very excited about the minicattle, pardon the digression). Then there's the symbolic significance of goat as scavenger, which I identify with, and the paleolithic rock drawings of goats that are thought to signify direction in some way. Though the image I have decided will be my tattoo (when I finally feel like my life has some sort of direction) is the leaping goat from that "earliest animation" case thingy.

Gronk. I have four family friends (all related to each other) who have all been sick to one degree or another in the last few days. So, I called my aunt to check in on how they are and I get the third degree about when she is going to get to meet Teacup Guy and whether or not all my books are unpacked yet. People are strange.