Ovulation photographed: [link] (it's work safe.)

Folks in England have it rough: Gardeners warned slug epidemic this summer will be 'the stuff of nightmares'

They're slimy, they're hungry, and they're heading for your garden this summer.

Gardeners have been warned to expect an epidemic of slugs over the next few months.

The wet and mild weather throughout spring has made perfect conditions to create 'the stuff of nightmares' for gardeners.

Experts claim there could be up to 200 slugs per cubic metre of soil, four times the usual amount, with each capable of eating double their weight in plants each day.

The Zooillogix blog sez this:

The English are facing the slug threat with their characteristic stiff upper lips. Some are even looking to utilize the slug surfeit with such "splendid" culinary inventions as slug Wellington, bangers and slug and slugshire pudding.

Everytime I think Tyra Banks is just a windbag, I see a photo of her like this where she is achingly beautiful.

Burrell, absolutely! Before summer school... maybe next week.

Ovulation photographed:

Too cool! And also hilarious that it was caught on camera during a hysterectomy.

Ovulation photographed:

Cool and freaky.

My week has gone from busy to crazy - all good, but Sat Iwill be jelly.

Tuesday - Head of company in the offices and people are edgy. grandparents got here and we met for lunch and then they decided to make an unscheduled visit to our place for dinner (mac to bed late).

Wednesday - work was unexplicably busy with lots of people needing little things, but right away. picked up mac, fed him dinner, changed his clothes and came into Manahattan for grandad's concert. I thought the concert would be 1.5 hours, it was over 2. Home at 11pm.

Thursday - up and out of the house 20 minutes earlier than normal to get to brace office which is an hour away via train and bus. Originally get on wrong bus and waste almost 10 min. Get back to hood, get mac to school, get in to work at 10:50am, so no lunch break in order to get my 7 hrs in. Grandparents are picking mac up from afterschool and bringing him in to me so we can get to therapy tonight which will mean another late night for mac.

Friday - Do not even want to think what getting mac up for school is going to be like, I may bribe with promises of weekend junk food. drama program at afterschool at 6pm, tickets to baseball game with grandparents, uncle and friends that starts at 7 - earliest we can get there is 7:40. Earliest I think we can get home is midnight.

This morning we found hundreds of pages from looseleafs (some from the stacks, some from reserve) all stacked up on a book cart willy-nilly with a note stuck on it that said, "Please do not touch, doing research." It's going to take some unlucky tech services student many hours of tedious labor to refile all those pages.

Oh.My.God. That person should be shot.

Working for one of those publishers of looseleaf reporters, I sooo feel for that student who's going to have to refile those pages.

yikes. so busy, msbelle.

In the past 10 days, I lead 17 hours of PD. I had a totally weird moment on Tuesday when one participant complained about Obama's oratory patterns and an African American woman got offended and called him on it (called him negative all the time, told him to be quiet etc...). He then said something about "People like you" which he had also said at another meeting where I was not present. She got rightly offended at that. He then tried to explain it wasn't a black thing and he isn't racist, after all his parents worked to integrate his neighborhood as a kid and he was the first kid to befriend the African American kids.

I didn't know how to respond except to try to cluck them back into writing (which is what we were doing). It was a classic example of things NOT to say. I apologized to the woman for not intervening more forcefully and she apologized for disrupting my class. Though the truth is, I'm not sure what offended her about his comment about disliking the oratory pattern of Obama.

It was uncomfortable. I handled it poorly. But I expect adults to be adults. And I think some of this sprung from underlying tensions or previous issues.

Kat, we use this stuff: [link]

It got the best rating of the natural ones when Slate did a test a few years back.

Thanks, all! Send coffee! I have gronk!

Kat, when people are putting their feet in their mouth, there's only so much you can do.

My week has gone from busy to crazy - all good, but Sat I will be jelly.

Apparently too busy to check out the umbrella farm that you requested.

Oh well, with a schedule like that I suppose I can cut you some slack.