Also, Mr. McGrath was scarygood on the VH1 celebrity Jeopardy-type show they had. I may have had a small crush.

I think that I swooned when he ran the "New Wave" category.

Memorandum

To: CNN
From: me
RE: Definition of "Breaking News"

This:

-- Sen. Larry Craig, who was arrested on misdemeanor disorderly conduct in a bathroom, denies he is gay and accuses a newspaper of a witchhunt.

is not "Breaking News". Unless your lead reporter is Observo, Master of the Obvious.

Stop cluttering up my email with this nonsense.

Tell me a thing that made you happy recently.

In a phone conversation, my 7-yr old nephew (M) was telling me all the jokes and riddles from his Ranger Rick magazines. I told him to ask my brother to tell the "foot foot" joke. I could hear my brother in the background start to tell the joke, stopping every sentence or so to let M repeat it to me. This joke is a long, shaggy-dog type story with a lame punch-line. All the charm is in the way the story is told. Anyway, it was obvious that M had no idea where the story was going but was willing to go along. I was suppressing laughter the whole time just because I could picture the question mark on his face. After repeating the punch-line to me he said, "Was that supposed to be funny?" I could hear my parents and my brother burst out laughing at the same time I did. So, I got to share a moment with them without being there. It was good.

I got to snuggle Noah yesterday, and zrrbrt Gracie's toes last night.

And tonight Polgara is coming over for arts and crafts (making the goodie bags for the reading).

I just found out that one of the instructors was given wrist and ankle restraints *and* a heart-shaped paddle as going away gifts. Although I am sad that I haven't gotten to give her my gift yet (pink duck vibrator), I'm made a little happy.

Other than that I'm beyond pissy. And I wish they'd turn the tv off, or at least change the station.

Rain is a perfectly valid excuse for me to skip rehearsal, right?

Rain is serious business.

Does anyone know of the statistical breakdown of which side (say) American men dress on? Is it linked to handedness?

This article says US men tend to dress left:

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My incredibly unscientific study concurs. I'll mark that for reading when I'm at a computer.

There's a google answers thread that has a digression onto how testicaels hang and these two theories:

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I could be wrong, but I think the original questioner was referring not to the testicles but to the penis. In most men the flaccid penis points slightly to one side rather than straight ahead. The direction it points in correlates with what side the heart is on -- which is on the left in most people. Thus most men hang slightly to the left. One sign of dextrocardia (having ones heart on the right side of the chest instead of the left) is a penis that hangs to the right.

And

in high school, one of my friends and i asked a number of our guy friends which way they dress, just for fun (we had to explain it to a surprisingly high number of them). anyway, it did seem to depend on handedness as most right handed guys we asked said they dress left while the left handers said they dress right.