I'm another one who's a generation removed from Irish citizenship (maternal great-grandmother came from County Meade, so Mom can apply but not me).

I think it's both sad and funny that the likelihood of someone wanting to marry me for my French citizenship may now be greater than someone wanting to marry me for my American citizenship.

Jars, would you be available for giving some 'visiting Ireland (although not emigrating... my sister would KILL me and then move my dead body to New Zealand)' tips?

But, you have single friends that could marry us, right?

Um, so long as you have absolutely no follow up questions, then yes, yes I do.

But there are oh so many, many rugby players floating around.

Scheduled haircut for Wednesday. I suppose that I could take in a picture of what my hair looked like after my last appointment rather than a random picture of someone else, huh?

Jars, would you be available for giving some 'visiting Ireland (although not emigrating... my sister would KILL me and then move my dead body to New Zealand)' tips?

Hells yeah. When were you planning on visiting?

My to do list of 8, that then became 10, now down to 6!

A Ron Paul supporter gets upset over the location of his book at Barnes & Noble: [link]

However, it was still in the back corner of the sotre, bottom shelf, 3 copies. (there were 6 on April 30th an I bought two of them) I was under the apparenty mistaken impression that the BN Bestseller shelves featured prominently at the front of the store were for true bestsellers and I actually thought it was tied into the NYT list. NOT AT ALL.

A book can be #1 everywhere, INCLUDING at BN.com and they won't necessarily feature it on the bestseller shelf up front. There is not hard critera, either. Whatever IS selling or is projected to sell. READ: whichever publisher PAYS for the self space. It is FRAUD.

It should be the Barnes & Noble PICKS or FEATURES.

I think it's both sad and funny that the likelihood of someone wanting to marry me for my French citizenship may now be greater than someone wanting to marry me for my American citizenship.

I think it's both sad and funny that anyone could possibly need any inducement to marry you beyond your sheer awesomeness. The French citizenship should just be... not even a gift with purchase, just a bonus gift with gift.

In completely random news that harks back to a discussion from last week: One of my officemates was gone on Friday -- turns out she was in New York attending the baptism of her twin niecephews, born a couple of months ago to her baby sister. Her 50-year-old baby sister. The last trimester was hellish with health issues and the babies were touch-and-go in the ICN for the first couple of weeks, but everyone is now home and healthy and on track for relative normalcy and lack of long-term complications.

Disclaimers: Overall rocky, scary experience, tragedy nearly avoided, plural of anecdote not data, etc.; but, still. Something to bear in mind against the NPR OMGWTF all post-30 ovaries are fossilized!!!1!eleventy story.

sweet! insent Jars.