Oh great, they are recylcing Sloan AGAIN.

shrift, don't worry too much. Short of the rings, the bridal party and remembering to put your clothes on, most weddings go off with several things forgotten and no one notices in the end.

Oh, remember to put your dress on.

Oh dear god. A coming soon on teevee ad just ran on CBS.

VAMPIRE BATS.

You know that thing where your eyeballs fall out of your head and roll across the floor, gathering lint and cathair and dust and then bounce off the glass doors?

Mine just did. Excuse me while I bump around furniture to retrieve them

shrift, don't worry too much. Short of the rings, the bridal party and remembering to put your clothes on, most weddings go off with several things forgotten and no one notices in the end.

It's true. I was even at a wedding recently where they forgot the rings, and I doubt anyone but the wedding party even noticed.

I have my dress, my jewelry, my shoes, and I even realized that I would need to wear a button-down on Saturday so I wouldn't ruin my hair and make-up while changing.

I am not in possession of the ring yet. I do need to buy a card and go to the bank to put money in it. I figure I'll have some whiskey for some liquid calm tonight, and grill the other bridesmaids tomorrow at the rehearsal dinner.

Oh, remember to put your dress on.

Check. And to make sure the bride has her dress on, since she can't put it on herself.

I even realized that I would need to wear a button-down on Saturday so I wouldn't ruin my hair and make-up while changing.

I have yet to realize that ahead of time -- first wedding, I was just careful taking off the t-shirt, second one, I borrowed a shirt of the groom's. I'd say you're pretty well ahead of the game.

In news about me, I freaking love getting home on Thursdays. Thursday day generally sucks for me, as I have class til 10 Weds night, so I stay up late, and then I have to get up for work that I hate, and then I have a class I'm not nuts about (although I think we made some progress tonight), but THEN! Then when I get home, I have a three-day weekend. Being a student is awesome on Thursday nights.

World's Smallest Car

Using the parts inside a single molecule, scientists have constructed the world's smallest car. It has a chassis, axles and a pivoting suspension. The wheels are buckyballs, spheres of pure carbon containing 60 atoms apiece.

It'd be a real squeeze to take it for a spin, however.

The whole car is no more than 4 nanometers across. That's slightly wider than a strand of DNA. A human hair is about 80,000 nanometers thick.

I have yet to realize that ahead of time

It only crossed my mind just the other day while I was doing laundry and pondering church/reception hall/home vehicle logistics.

At the wedding I was maid of honor for, there was a moment when all of us brides-whatevers and bride started swearing simultaneously as we realize we were all made up and our hair done and we were in underwear and slips. So we sat around in them for a bit, applied beer and wine, and then said fuck it, it was an outdoor wedding anyway and it was windy.

And then spent nearly an hour tromping around in the woods and streams in heels and hose to take pictures, because the bride is a photographer, so the photographers were all her buddies, but they weren't just portrait photogs, they were nature photogs too.

It was kinda fun. And INSANE. We all stayed in a huge family cabin at Lake Stanley in Idaho, and the wedding took place on the shores of the lake. They gave me plenty of scotch.

I am envious of Jesse's Thursday nights.

I realized on the way home that I was very very tired. Too tired, in fact to even preheat the oven and all that stuff, so pizza is on the way.

I hope I am still awake when it gets here.