I'm surely gronked. Thank the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. that I don't have to go to work on Monday. Every single day of this week has been a great struggle to get out of bed.

Howdy, folks.

Jogging your way to saggy breasts

Millions of women may be jogging their way to sagging breasts as they set off on New Year fitness regimes without suitable bras, research suggests.

Some 9.5 million British women could be irreversibly damaging their busts by exercising without a proper sports bra, the Portsmouth University team said.

They found breasts moved in a 3D figure of eight and that uncontrolled movement strained fragile tissues and ligaments.

The study suggested as a woman runs a mile, her breasts bounced 135 meters.

The report found each breast moved independently of the body by an average of 9cm for every step taken on the treadmill.

The study was funded by a sports bra manufacturer.

A little late, but after Ellie was born, I had the most amazing high. It was so far beyond when I finished the marathon. I think I talked non-stop for about 7 hours to anyone who would listen. The pictures show how exhausted I was, but I couldn't feel it. That feeling made such an impression on me that I made an LJ entry about it somewhere around 6 months after Ellie was born.

I am now earwormed by Interjections!

I am now earwormed by Interjections!

Conjunction Junction would probably take care of that.

Stephanie, that sounds very cute. And it is apparent that Mother Nature should do everything she can to mollify women who've just given birth. By way of apology.

Yuck. I don't like Ambien. It had been suggested that sometimes just getting to sleep might help a migraine, and it has less of a hangover than Flexeril. True, true. But that period between taking the pill and my head hitting the pillow is gross and horrible. I can just about deal with the visual field distortions and the loss of hand/foot eye coordination, but it's the gaps in my memory that are the worst.

In theory, I can train myself to lie down after I've taken it, so I won't post addled, or watch TV and forget what I saw and then delete it off TiVo, but how am I going to stop myself from answering the phone? Luckily the two people who called me last night called me on my cell which was far from the bed, but I've had one Ambien-laced conversation so far, and I sounded like a moron.

I have a low tolerance for stupidity today, and an even lower standard for what constitutes stupidity.

Pat Robertson withdraws remarks about Sharon after Israeli Tourism Ministry withdraws offer of $50m theme park deal:

Mr Robertson wrote to Mr Sharon's son Omri to say he now realised his remarks were "inappropriate and insensitive".

He asked for forgiveness, but there is no suggestion the Israeli authorities will overturn a decision to block a tourism deal with the preacher.

Israel said on Wednesday it would no longer sign a $50m contract with him.

"My concern for the future safety of your nation led me to make remarks which I can now view in retrospect as inappropriate and insensitive in light of a national grief experienced because of your father's illness," said Mr Robertson's letter.

Tourism Ministry official Ram Levi said Israel remained "outraged" by the remarks.

Earlier this week, the ministry's spokesman Ido Hartuv said Israel would no longer be signing a contract with Mr Robertson to build a biblical theme park by the Sea of Galilee.

The centre was expected to cover nearly 35 acres (14 hectares) north-east of the Mount of Beatitudes, where Jesus is believed to have delivered the Sermon on the Mount.

It would have had a park, an auditorium, a Holy Land exhibition, outdoor amphitheatres, information centre and a media studio.

The Israeli government had tentatively agreed to provide land and infrastructure for the centre in the hope of generating millions of dollars from tourism.

But relations soured when Mr Robertson said God wanted Israel to be whole and undivided and had therefore punished Mr Sharon for Israel's pull-out from the Gaza Strip last year.

"You read the Bible: This is my land, and for any prime minister of Israel who decides he's going to carve it up and give it away, God says no, this is mine," he said last week.

Mr Hartuv insisted Israel had not rejected outright the idea of building the centre.

"The contract is still open - just not with Mr Robertson," he said.

From the "If Real Life Were Like Cartoons" file:

I wish an anvil would fall on Pat Robertson's head.

I wish an anvil would fall on Pat Robertson's head.

Yeah, but he did lose out on a 50 million dollar deal. Maybe not quite as appropriate as an anvil, but....

And it's nice to finally see someone holding him accountable for the nonsense he spews....