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.

I was trying to get a stuck tail light out of my car - I was pushing it pretty hard when it just shattered.

I gotta leave for Madison in a few minutes. So far, bleeding has not resumed....

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.

Oh yeah same thing happened to me when I cut my finger trying to open a container of hummus. I was hostessing a party so No Time for ER! eh. it was fine.

And I did it again recently on a broken glass.

OK, see y'all later!!

The Golden Notebook is really good.I was too young for it, probably, but spent my late teens very "I Know My ForeMothers...ask me how!" and read a lot of feminism's greatest hits(The Women's Room being my biggest favorite. Or Germaine Greer.)

I couldn't find that douche's age anywhere, so I'm afraid I went to college with him.

I was thinking the exact same thing!

The Cats Are Evolving!! So get ready to say hello to your new kitten overlords, complete with thumbs (they might not be opposable yet, but just wait a few mutations...).

And I gotta weigh in as a bitter agnostic: How nice do you have to be to people who think you deserve eternal torment?

I sliced my finger open on a cat food can and went into shock. (1) That was the only time I've gone into shock. (2) I was giving a recently declawed cat the cat food. It was revenge on me!

People, you gotta look at that John Fitzgerald Page page. [link] I fixed the link. It is FANTASTIC. Here are some of his accomplishments:

I am an avid traveler and have been to St. Thomas & St. John, Aruba and Zurich. I have lived in / visited almost every major city in the United States, having seen 38 of the 50 states.

I am well connected, having lunched with the U.S. Secretary of Defense & the U.S. Ambassador to South Africa during the time I spent in Washington, D.C.

I have been in the "fame game" for years, meeting celebrities like Luke Perry, Cynthia Nixon, Dave Matthews, Jeff Foxworthy, Joe Montana, Toby Keith & LeAnn Rimes to name a few.