Lyrics to be web-available, legal, and free.

they felt lyrics were an untapped resource at a time when consumers were increasingly getting them through the various rogue sites.

I think I have my cranky pants on today, because my most annoying co-orkers is really annoying me. And I think I have pinpointed the big issue-- she gets REALLY angry at people for doing annoying stuff that she herself does. For example, she is ALWAYS shouting down the hall instead of using the phone. It drives me mildly crazy, but not enough to say anything about it. In this particular office, many people, including big!Boss shout down the hall occasionally. This morning, my boss was shouting down the hall at me and all the sudden we hear a big "SHHHHHHHHH!!!! I am TRYING to work" from her. Um-- you are the biggest hall shouter of them all! Also, she hates being interrupted when she works, to the point that can only take/make orders for things (part of her job) on one day a week, from one central person who collects them all-- but she contantly shouts down the hall at me or the other admin to a) help her with her computer, b) read over emails she sends or c) help her with some part of her job. Drives me nuts!

Ugh. Too bad you couldn't have said, "Oh, you the High Queen of Shouting down the Hall," but those things don't usually end well.

I think my sore throat is really a sinus infection (it feels like it did the last time I had one). I bought the Walgreen's version of Claritin-D ($6 for five 24-hour capsules?!?) and some sore throat spray to try and knock out the worst of the pain until I can go to the doctor. I haven't been to one since I've moved, so I just did a search at my HMO's website for a local family practice female doc who is taking new patients and called the first one on the list. She's booked until August (busy woman!), but another woman in the practice has an opening for next Monday, so I'm getting the whole workup done.

Hey migraineurs -- they might help your brain, in the long run. [link]

The journal Neurology reports that a group of migraine sufferers had less cognitive decline and memory loss over a period of 12 years than a group of migraine-free adults.

I am starting to feel discombobulated about the book being completely out of my hands, now.

And I'm getting twitchy about the oceans of time I'll have to wait to see it in actual book form.

Do you know anything about book tours or other promotions they might want you to do?

Sigh.

Russell Simmons and Benjamin Chavis, leaders of the Hip-Hop Summit Action Network, said Monday that the recording and broadcast industries should voluntarily censor the "misogynistic" words "bitch" and "ho" and the "racially offensive" n-word from future recordings.

"These three words should be considered with the same objections to obscenity as 'extreme curse words,' " they said.

[...]Monday's statement changed course from another one Simmons and Chavis issued April 13, a day after Imus' show was canceled, in which they said offensive references in hip-hop "may be uncomfortable for some to hear, but our job is not to silence or censor that expression."

Jesse, that is not helping me now when my headache making me want to kill people.