Ooooh!!! :: dances around computer :: I found out that not only is the Clark University Enterprise Solutions Developer certificate course held on a rolling enrollment basis, meaning that you can start, like every two months instead of September & January dates, but the courses are held about two miles from here!

This means that I'm not up against and hard and fast deadline to get the Section 30 training extension on my Unemployment benefits, so I can stop fretting that they still haven't gotten back to me after a week. That would mean that not only would my coursework qualify for Unemployment, it would be specially extended for me to finish the certificate, up to about a year.

Yeah, it would mean belt-tightening for a year, but I'd come away much more employable and competitive....

did you all hear that the rapper DMX's place got raided over the weekend and they found evidence of dog fighting there too? i'm wondering if he's someone Vick was involved with and if we'll see more of these people being brought into the spotlight.

I also hope he sings like a bird on others involved in the business of dogfighting and that they get more major busts out of this case.

The feds should go all RICO with the dog fighting and bust up gangs with it they way they got the mob on tax evasion. It's been so largely unprosecuted for so long that there is little in the way of bothering to hide it.

In news that has nothing to do with dogs: nifty implementation of a digital concept. It's like you took a real life metaphor, made it into software, and then brought it back to hardware.

Keen.

That's cool, ita. Is it USB or bluetooth?

Bluetooth. So it's not even visibly connected.

Record-breaking Dalek gathering in Manchester

flickr photo set: [link]

I love the one of the little girl standing next to the little pink Dalek: [link]

The link says most overpriced bikini, but really, it's diamonds. I don't know how "over" that makes the price.

Miss Teen South Carolina got THIRD RUNNER UP in Miss Teen USA??

stares at computer screen, mouth agape

I ....

I ....

"Recent polls have shown that your average teen pagaent competitor is as dumb as a box of rhino turds. Why do you think that is?"

I'm having a small panic attack thinking about buying something nice to wear for the reading. I can't go into clothing stores without getting mildly ill, and I can barely look at myself in a full length mirror.

What do i do to calm down?

I don't want to be panicked and lost in self-loathing before the reading, yet I have no way to feel confident in clothing. It's already starting and I'm losing my shit.