OK, my mom's job has the best invention ever: It's All About You Day. It can be your birthday, but it doesn't have to be. An all-staff email goes out, so people are nice to you/congratulate you/whatever, and if you want, you can wear a tiara all day. Because it's All About You.

Also, he's UGLY. I mean, really?!?

Seriously, he doesn't have a single good picture. Not to mention the hair plugs.

It's All About You Day is genius.

Briefing for a Descent into Hell is the title I couldn't remember.

At least he's not roofie-ing women he meets on Match.com.

right. there's (at least) one guy on trial for that right now - in two states. really frightening.

Just out of curiosity - how deep does a cut to your finger have to be before you must seek medical attention?

Can you stop the bleeding?

Looks like.

I put a bandaid on - the bleeding stopped, then started up again but now it's stopped again.

Can you stop the bleeding?

At this point, exactly. If I can't stop the bleeding after applying pressure for some time, then it's off to the doctor's/ER with me.

When I gouged my finger (with a butter knife, trying to open a frozen bagel), it took all day to stop bleeding, and in the evening they told me I could have gotten stiches in the morning, but it was too late by then. It was pretty deep, but not bone deep -- right on the 'should I go to the doctor?' borderline.

The students at - Georgetown, I think it is - are all up in arms because of new rules to cut back on the amount of drinking. The latest "outrage" is that they've instituted a $200 fine for anyone who throws up on the bus. (This is a shuttle to another college and, late at night, there's only one bus and if someone gets sick, the driver has to stop, get everyone off, call for alternate transportation, then either clean up the bus or get it to the garage to be cleaned.)

That's at GW, not Georgetown. The shuttle goes between the two GW campuses. (There's the main Foggy Bottom campus, and then also the campus that used to be Mount Vernon College, where there are some overflow classrooms and dorms. The problem is mostly from students who live at Mount Vernon going to parties near the main campus and then going home late.) Most of the students interviewed by the campus newspaper said that they thought the fine was a good idea, because people throwing up on the bus is gross.

The Georgetown mention reminded me of another Georgetown story, though. There was a townhouse where a bunch of Georgetown students were living. They had more people there than the occupancy codes allowed, and they were called on it. They researched and found out that the occupancy laws don't apply to religious organizations, so they declared themselves a church. The parents quoted in the articles about it were horrifying -- basically, "It's not fair that the city of Washington is trying to make my son obey the law." There had been a ton of noise complaints about them from neighbors -- I suspect that if the students had been relatively good neighbors, no one would have complained about there being too many people in the house.