Yep. Manayunk commutes suck. Depending on where the job is though.... it's not close to Center City at all and the 76 is deadly. But if you are working somewhere NOT in Center City, it's not so bad.

I like Chestnut Hill more.

And did anyone post that Wendy Wasserstein died? (NYTimes article: [link] )

She was so young!

Just catching up…

Jars and quester, I’m so sorry about your losses. Strength to you and yours.

ita, congrats! Fabulous brown-belted news.

Happy birthday, Anne!

Calli, so sorry about the asshats.

Beth, I’m sending all the good vibes I can to you and to Matt’s family.

The Left Coasters all seem to have posts about how cool they are.

I am painfully aware that I have never been cool, so I must not be a proper Left Coaster.

Aimee, good luck making this decision.

And has a little kid. Sad.

I took English and Calculus in my fifth periods, both subjects I dug, with cool teachers.

The fifth period is not cursed.

Also? Why are Buffistas not on Surface like white on rice?

This is scary and sad:

Dr Chris Moulin first encountered chronic déjà vu sufferers at a memory clinic. "We had a peculiar referral from a man who said there was no point visiting the clinic because he'd already been there, although this would have been impossible." The patient not only genuinely believed he had met Dr Moulin before, he gave specific details about the times and places of these 'remembered' meetings.

Déjà vu has developed to such an extent that he had stopped watching TV - even the news - because it seemed to be a repeat, and even believed he could hear the same bird singing the same song in the same tree every time he went out. Chronic déjà vu sufferers are not only overwhelmed by a sense of familiarity for new experiences, they can provide plausible and complex justifications to support this. "When this particular patient's wife asked what was going to happen next on a TV programme he'd claimed to have already seen, he said 'how should I know? I have a memory problem!'" Dr Moulin said...

"The exciting thing about these people is that they can 'recall' specific details about an event or meeting that never actually occurred. It suggests that the sensations associated with remembering are separate to the contents of memory, that there are two different systems in the brain at work." Dr Moulin believes a circuit in our temporal lobe fires up when we recall the past, creating the experience of remembering but also a 'recollective experience' – the sense of the self in the past. In a person with chronic déjà vu this circuit is either overactive or permanently switched on, creating memories where none exist. When novel events are processed, they are accompanied by a strong feeling of remembering.

Boing Boing: [link]

article: [link]

Gawd, I can be a massive jackhole.

Ah, sweet Gussykins. Many are jackholes, few have the grace to cop to it and apologize.

Chewbaca's blog: [link]

Lot's o' Photoshopped photos....

GA completely broke me and I am still recovering from the crying. GOOD LORD!