Checked in for your flight yet? Huh? Huh?

Oh, duh. I could do that, and I shall. I'm mostly packed already, although I need to poke at the TSA site because it's been a while since I've been to the airport.

I also woke up really early today, which I guess is good, considering how early I'm going to have to get up tomorrow.

I'm trying to decide when I should ask the taxi to show up. I am thinking probably 5:45am, which is horrendous, although I'm not complaining because I'm sleeping in compared to you.

Oh! Hey! It's secretary's day!

Awesome.

A sample math question for a Chinese university entrance test, compared with one for an English university. Damn. The English one is incredibly remedial, but the Chinese one - I'd have to sit and think a bit on that one.

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The tests are set for prospective science undergraduates.

The UK's Royal Society of Chemistry is offering a £500 prize to one lucky but bright person who answers the question below correctly.

It has also published a test used in a "well known and respected" English university - the society is not naming it - to assess the strength of incoming science undergraduates' maths skills.

A glance at the two questions reveals how much more advanced is the maths teaching in China, where children learn the subject up to the age of 18, the society says.

Happy Admin Professional Day to all the Admin Professionals!

Ugh. I got an update on my BIL. He's still in the Hospital with hallucinations and way elevated blood pressure. He's been there since Monday.

Oh my word, Gud. I'm so sorry. Health to him.

I'd forgotten about it, but this morning I got a nice handmade card, lillies, candles and breakfast from my people. I love my people. Now if we could just get the clients to behave today, it'd be perfect.

I has a boarding pass!

Did anyone link to the story about the giant fossilized jungle in IL?

Ooh. Cool (I think):

Breaking: Goodling granted immunity.

The House Judiciary Committee voted moments ago to grant immunity to Monica Goodling — former counsel to Alberto Gonzales and the Justice Department’s liaison to the White House — and issue a subpoena compelling her to testify. Yesterday, fired U.S. Attorney David Iglesias said he believes that Goodling holds the “keys to the kingdom” in terms of uncovering the roots of the U.S. Attorney purge:

I think Monica Goodling is holding the keys to the kingdom. I think if they get her to testify under oath with a transcript, and have her describe the process between the information flow between the White House counsel, White House and the Justice Department, I believe the picture becomes a lot clearer.

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This is just... the crap that Bush says just gets more and more surreal:

Bush: If You Judge My Iraq Strategy By The Number Of Violent Attacks, The Terrorists Win

In an interview last night on PBS, President Bush complained that people who measure progress in Iraq by how many car bombs and suicide attacks occur are giving a “huge victory” to the enemy by making it more difficult for him to promote the war to the American public.

“If the standard of success is no car bombings or suicide bombings,” Bush said, “we have just handed those who commit suicide bombings a huge victory.” He repeated later that people who “judge the administration’s [escalation] plan” based on such acts of violence “have just given Al Qaida or any other extremist a significant victories [sic].”

Bush said that these images of brutal violence on television are “one of the problems I face in trying to convince the American people” that the war is worthwhile.

Bush is apparently still unhappy that reality has a liberal bias.