Ability to listen to 2 things at once is largely inherited

Given most people's reactions to this, I guess I understand why the fact I could do this (when they weren't even talking to me) freaked my students out so much.

More importantly,

Happy Birthday Juliana!!!!!!!!!

Happy birthday, Juliana!

I too use music to drown out the chatter and leave only room for the main processing job.

As far as multitasking goes, I can be training, chatting, and still have to stop and correct someone two people over. It's all one topic, multiple organs.

Cash, you totally need to make an lolOwen out of that photo. So adorable and funny!

Love those bentos! Lisa, you need to take photos of your bento lunches! I want to see the cute lunches in the cute little box.

Lisa, you need to take photos of your bento lunches! I want to see the cute lunches in the cute little box.

I KNOW! My friend who sells the bento boxes is like "why even bother if you don't take a picture?" but I never have time (or can find the right light) in the morning!

The Sad Fate of the Comma Which, oddly enough, talks a lot about multitasking.

I want to get a bento box for Owen for his lunches at preschool. Those are awesome, Lisa!

I'm one of those people that have trouble listeing to ONE thing at a time.

I'm multi-tasking right now AIFG!

I like commas. I keep putting them in, and authors keep taking them out, and I put them in again. Nyah.

I also usually wake up or snap to alertness immediately upon utterance of the word "Daddy"

hey, Daddy

If I were being grammatically rigourous, I'd use fewer commas. Like the one in the preceding sentence, for instance. That's just me punctuating my speech with pauses.

I have a great deal of IMDB to catch up on. Elisha Cuthbert wants to be in the 24 movie. But right now I'm caught by:

Julia Roberts inadvertently brought writer Jay McInerney's marriage to a crashing end when a goodbye kiss at the end of an interview turned the journalist into an obsessed fan. The Bright Lights, Big City author recently confessed he was smitten with the Pretty Woman star when she left him with a lingering memory after he interviewed her for a magazine. Charming McInerney told a magazine editor's conference that Roberts had just divorced Lyle Lovett and he convinced her to go dancing with him after their interview. The writer's ex-wife, Helen Bransford, tells America's the Globe tabloid that seeing her husband become more and more obsessed with Roberts prompted her to get a face-lift. The couple divorced in 2000.

People need to not give interviews. I don't want to know that about McInerney or his wife. Can't they have secrets anymore, she asks, heading right back to the gossip page?

The Break-Up star Jennifer Aniston has a novel way to save the environment - she brushes her teeth in the shower. The actress revealed her eco-friendly tip on the eve of Al Gore's Live Earth concerts on Saturday. She says, "I take a three-minute shower. I even brush-wash - brush my teeth while I shower. Every two minutes in the shower uses as much water as a person in Africa uses for everything in their life for a whole day."

Slow news week? Of course, I do remember reading way back when that Vanna White did the same thing. Where is she, anyway?

The MPAA has set up a decoy website aimed at snagging pirates, according to the website blorge.com (whose motto is "technology with attitude"). According to the website, Media Defender, operating on behalf of the MPAA, has set up a site dubbed MiiVi.com that offers "fast and easy video downloading all in one great site" including software that it says speeds up the downloading process. However, according to blorge.com, the software actually searches the computer for other copyrighted files and sends the information back to Media Defender.

Okay, eww. I know that in theory good honest 'net-fearing people shouldn't be affected, but it's spyware nonetheless.

I want a bento box too.

hey, Daddy

I'm up! What do you need? Milkies? Cheese sandwich?