They are! They're total bastards.

Yes, I too recently had the joy of a Ticketmaster "tickets are $31, OH WAIT HA HA, MAKE THAT $45" experience.

I'm skipping 120 posts to ask the Hivemind this question...

Have any of you ever heard of the Junior National Young Leaders Conference (JrNYLC)? Apparently my son was nominated. Meep.

I spent a summer working for NYLC in Washington many years ago -- I don't remember a Junior version, but the main event was pretty cool.

They sent this beautiful packet and engraved invitation and letters to us and to Ben, and program information, registration materials, etc., so it looks on the up and up. I have to email his teacher and find out what this is all about.

Eddie Izzard is freaking hott.

I spent a third of Ocean's 13 thinking...and then leaning over to say it out loud to my companion...I just want to have sex with him. True story.

I slept in today. Walking 21 miles over the last three days has taken a tired toll. I felt a little achey, and what my grandmother used to call 'stoved up.'

Then, coincidentally, the acupuncturist friend who's office I run when she is out of town, brought me back a Chinese blend tea called 'stamina.' I tell you what, it fixed me right up. My feet still feel it, but I'm doing much better.

Serendipity is a beautiful thing.

They sent this beautiful packet and engraved invitation and letters to us and to Ben, and program information, registration materials, etc., so it looks on the up and up. I have to email his teacher and find out what this is all about.

Oh, it's definitely on the up and up! For NYLC, the kids came to DC for a week or ten days (two weeks? I forget), and did both mock-Congress stuff and actual Congress stuff -- watching sessions, and getting spoken to by big politicians, an event at the Washington Press Club, I forget what else, but it was a great opportunity for kids into politics.

It's not cheap, though: [link]

Cindy, that sounds excellently cool.

I'm worried that this is "energy" given to me by the insane amounts of B2 I'm taking for migraine prophylaxis. If so--why does everything anti-migraine either wake me up or shut me down? There's one cool thing about caffeine these days--does neither.

“The Ohio Air Force lab proposed that a bomb be developed that contained a chemical that would cause enemy soliders to become gay, and to have their units break down because all their soldiers became irresistably attractive to one another,” Hammond said after reviwing the documents.

How can the Air Force scientists be unaware of the Navy's existence?

Amazon has the Boomtown dvds on sale for $15.99.