What IS cool, though, is this wine-tasting next week at the zoo! Not only do you get wine, they'll bring out animals, too (and believe me, I'm going to have to resist asking "So, does this lemur go better with a white, or a red?"), and you can get the animals drunk!

Woo hoo! t jealousjealousjealous

PS: don't resist. At all. You know it's the right thing to say.

Oh! The Lost World valley they found in Indonesia? This article [link] states that they may have found a new species of echidna! Which let themselves be picked up and carried back to camp.

t checks flights to Indonesia

Why for the love of all that is holy did this phrase have to chime in my head like "I'm all out of love" by Air Supply? Why???!??!?

It's a guide llama, and you're so lost without it?

My iPod is now playing Dalek I Love You. Less an earworm as an ear extermination.

Whoo to the hoo for all the congrat-worthy events!

Yay Jilli, David, Allyson, Every'sta!

Sorry about the apartment Aimee.

YAY about the job, Jilli! that's so great! I know they were courting you hardcore. It is well-deserved.

I just worked out for the first time...ever. My limbs are all shaky. I'm not sure how I feel about this!

Three studies say women can eat whatever we want:

The largest study ever to ask whether a low-fat diet keeps women from getting cancer or heart disease has found that the diet had no effect.

The $415 million federal study involved nearly 49,000 women aged 50 to 79 who were followed for eight years. In the end, those assigned to a low-fat diet had the same rates of breast cancer, colon cancer heart attack and stroke as those who ate whatever they pleased, researchers are reporting today.

"These are three totally negative studies," said Dr. David Freedman, a statistician at the University of California at Berkeley, who is not connected with the study but has written books on clinical trial design and analysis. And, he said, the results should be taken seriously for what they are — a rigorous attempt that failed to confirm a popular hypothesis that a low-fat diet can prevent three major diseases in women.

And the studies were so large and so expensive that they are "the Rolls Royce of studies," said Dr. Michael Thun, who directs epidemiological research for the American Cancer Society. As such, he said, they are likely to be the final word.

And, confounding many popular notions about fat in the diet, the different diets did not make much difference in anyone's weight. The common belief that carbohydrates in the diet lead to higher insulin levels, higher blood glucose levels and more diabetes was also not confirmed. There was no such effect among the women eating low-fat diets.

Woo hoo! Bring forth the deep-fried cheese!

Congratulations, Jilli. That's wonderful excellent news. They're so lucky to get you.

Emmett's still sick. Poor poot. Just beat his temperature back down from 102. He's in the tub now, and that seems to be helping a little.

He's not going to be ready to go back to school tomorrow.

Congratulations, Jilli!!!!

Poor Emmett. I hope he feels better soon.

Oh, poor Emmett. He was doing so well this morning, with the ruby red grapefruit juice and the Puppy Bowl DVD and everything. Should I bring anything home? More smoothie fruit, fizzy water, anything?

I just got back from picking up more transcription from my boss. He told me about seeing the child of a Marin County mother this morning. When he asked her to describe the events that prompted her son's referral, she tossed her hair and clanked her big bead bracelets together and said, "Oh, man, it's just totally wild. I, like, don't even know where to begin, it's all so crazy." When the postdoc fellow took the boy's wrist to count his pulse, the boy asked his mother what was happening, and she said, "Relax, honey, he's sensing your chakras." Ahhh, the Bay Area.

Oh, JZ, that story is priceless.

Ya'll, it just took me fifteen minutes to figure out how to work the shower, which is handicapped-enabled. Sometimes me think ayain't got nun smarts.

Should I bring anything home?

Not really. The fridge is already loaded. He seems to be doing a little better after the tub. I washed him clean, then he floated in the warm water a bit. Now he's in clean jammies and he's sucking on a popsicle and watching Three Stooges.

Emmett's plans for the evening and mine are remarkably similar.