I just got back from the mall and it was not pleasant. Do NOT spend time trying on clothes after six weeks of enforced non-exercise and lots of comfort food. I am a doughy hideous mutant lump. I have onl,y gained back 8 lbs of the 30 I lost, but I have no muscles anywhere on my body anymore.

I am a doughy hideous mutant lump.

For all definitions of doughy hideous mutant lump that mean "Hotter than all get out at an all get out convention full of hott."

This is sad. [link]

I should probably spend most of the weekend organizing and cleaning my apartment. Some of that may happen. Tomorrow will involve outdoor time and and an evening in a smoky bar listening to a friend's band.

Received and reflung.

I like my bras that fit so much that I did, bit by bit, turf all the other ones and replace them with the pricier well-fitting ones. As budget allowed.

Bugger.

Stayed up too long, damned facebook and my need to create a krav group. Must go to bed before movie. Fuck the vacuuming.

*I* just found out that one of my cousins thought I was fat when she saw me a few months ago.

This is royally weird.

I mean, not that I think I am, but that I could be perceived as such. Still, I'm one or two dress sizes than the heaviest she's ever seen me (which really isn't that heavy). So there's a definite delta.

FUCK. Still not sleeping. I suck.

This sounds like a good thing. New Method for Inspecting Aging Aircraft

Using a vibration-based technique named the “Boundary Effect Evaluation Method (BEEM)” and a scanning laser vibrometer, P. Frank Pai, professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, can detect tiny cracks within various materials - including aluminum alloy and composite laminates. These are the two primary materials used to build airplanes. Pai says the inspection can be done with the aircraft fully intact and for less money than the traditional method.

Fuck the vacuuming.

In'eresting...

APRIL 27--Two weeks after exonerating a trio of men charged in the Duke lacrosse case, North Carolina prosecutors today released a report detailing numerous "self contradictions" on the accuser's part as well as other investigative deficiencies in the case that led them to drop all criminal charges. The "Summary of Conclusions" report, a copy of which you'll find below, was released this morning by North Carolina Attorney General Roy Cooper, who took control of the Duke case from Durham District Attorney Mike Nifong, whose handling of the matter has resulted in the filing of disciplinary charges against him. One portion of Cooper's report addresses "credibility issues" on the part of adult dancer Crystal Mangum, who leveled rape charges against the three Duke students. In another section of the document, Cooper describes recent interviews with an erratic Mangum during which she made several new claims that were contradicted by "photographic, documentary, and testimonial evidence."

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Starts out with a timeline of events.

Oh, this is so random, and I don't even know what made me randomly think of it today, but I went to high school with someone actually named Jessica Moon, and isn't that funny wrt Jessica/PMoon?

I thought so!

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Snopes says the story about Japanese buying sheep thinking they were poodles... is false.