and I forgot to say yay for Sophia, too.

Jesse covers my "Yay!"s but to reiterate...

Sophia, the raise is long overdue.

Theo, wonderful news! I know you'll enjoy this year.

paperdol, don't you watch What Not To Wear? Slap on one of those fitted blouse thingies with the over the waist parts, create the hourglass illusion and you're home free. Also, let Robin take you shopping. And have drinks before and afterwards.

sarameg, congratulations!

I agree that Vick is a low-life piece of shit for murdering dogs and the whole cruel, vicious mess. But my hope is that the is remorse is genuine--that he's actually sorry for what he's done. NOT just sorry for getting caught.

Here's how I feel about Michael Vick: he's a bad human being and I don't give a fuck about his "redemption" or remorse. He's a sociopath, and that's not something you recover from. Unfortunately, the worst thing that can happen to him is that he is forced out of football and forced to live as a millionaire with a circle of validating sycophants and golf buddies for the rest of his life. (see: O.J. Simpson)

I heard some of Vick's speech - he didn't sound horrified at what he did. and I am confused, don't people figure out that torturing animals is wrong fairly young? He did much more than strangle some of these dogs to kill them. I just don't think this is one of those places where you can say I'm sorry , and be believed.

Theo - congratulations on the school thing! I know you'll enjoy being a student again.

sarameg - congrats on the new job!

So, I'm thinking of changing jobs when I get back from Budapest. What do I want to do?

What do I want to do?

Something that involves a lot of work-paid travel to San Francisco.

If only!

My cousin (who I now won't get to see) sent me this. [link] Test your geekitude. I'm surprised I'm only between total and utter geek.

I think I might have a tapeworm! Seriously, yesterday I was in a situation where I was hungry and couldn't eat from about 9 am - 4 pm, and I was so hungry I almost killed people. When I got home, I ate a sandwhich, and a couple of hours later I had a huge dinner (small steak, cauliflower, 2 ears of corn, potatoes, and tomato salad). This morning I woke up ravenous again, and I had yogurt with fresh peaches cut up in in and a bagel with chive cream cheese. 1 hour ago for lunch I had a the same thing I had for dinner last night minus the tomato salad and I am still hungry. Like, my stomach is growling and I have a horrible headache hungry.

Sophia, this is a really belated answer, but that sounds like a blood sugar thing. You can get symptoms like that both with diabetes or hypoglycemia which is its opposite.

If you are still having symptoms, you might want to consider getting it checked out. I don't know if you are insured or not, but if not I think there are free programs around to test for diabetes and hypoglycemia.

Skippity to post that, according to Nutty "If the Apocalypse Comes, Beep Me" Aug 28, 2003 2:08:39 pm PDT today is Casper's birthday.

Happy birthday, Casper! Happy day, flea, and all your family!

(I can only believe that Casper is already four years old because I worked so hard on believing that Franny is at the same age, last week. Otherwise, I would wow-she-did-it-quickly all over the place, again.)

Hippo birdies, Casper!

I missed the eclipse, damn it. If I'm going to have insomnia, why didn't it hit two or three hours ago (as it usually does) when I could have gotten up and watched the moon being eaten?

Oh well, at least I woke up and I didn't dream that I was a college student again -- I really am!