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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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-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.

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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.

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Go, Plei! Princess Tickybox, you be kind and gentle to your mama while making your entrance (or exit or whatever).

Yay, vw!

Today was one of those days I seriously considered calling in sick so I could sleep (like Tep, I somewhat consider it every morning but today was worse). Work is kicking my ass and I'm in the final few weeks of the semester for school and have more things due than I care to think about.

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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.

Oooh, that sounds very cool. I've always sort of considered Raven as my totem (Crow to a lesser extent), but there is no way in hell I'm inking Trickster onto my body. That's too much of an invitation to chaos - in my head, of course. YTricksterMV.

People are strange.

Yet cute and familial.

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Jullana! I spent a portion of last night looking at tattoo designs instead of packing.

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That's me Cindy, but I'm Reform, which has a more relaxed attitude towards a lot of things than Orthodox Judaism. The rules against tattoos are derived from exhortations not to mutilate your body, and I don't see it as mutilation, so I think it's okay. And in Reform, what I think is more important than what has been decided, if that makes sense.

Thanks, -t. It makes much sense.

My husband was born in the Year of the Rat and identifies with the descriptors pretty strongly, so it's like a more subtle version of getting his name.

Oh, that's kind of neat.

And why a goat?

A Buffista asks why a goat?

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