I could be sleeping but I can't stop watching music videos. I forgot how much I loved The The... must not go to itunes drunk.

mearing

STOP EVERYTHING. I'll come to whatever house in question to paint. Me LURVS painting. So much for caps lock speech.

As far as for boys, girls and cruelty in schools. Oh man. I had all of this and more until high school. I literally had no friends until junior high, and it was only this one other sane person I saw 3 times a week, more than a "friend" friend. Then again, I was pretty good with entertaining myself. Today I know I was lonely, but at least I had the brains to figure out I'd be more miserable if I'll turn to my classmates only in order to get more negative attention.

IOmeN, I'm better today. Well, at least, still haven't cried today, and less sad. My first thought every morning when I wake up is still "she's dead", and it doesn't feel like I really digested it, but today is good, so far.

I lurv Dr. Who, too.

There is something so wrong about being up *until* 5:30AM on Saturday night/Sunday morning...and then being up *AT* 4:30AM on [Monday night] Tuesday morning. My body clock is allllll out of whack. Sigh. Partying Saturday night. Up for a 5:45AM flight, this morning.

And I caught the flight but my connection in O'Hare was apparently overbooked...and I happened to be at the gate very early (like, an hour and a half beforehand), when they randomly called for a volunteer, and I was the first one there. So I'm now sitting here for an extra two hours, but I have a free ticket I can use for next year's conference! Or possibly more likely, for Thanksgiving or Christmas.

[edit; But I am double-posting, and it's too early and brainfoggy to play word games on Facebook, so I need people to POST things!! Entertain me! I don't have enough books to keep me occupied the whole trip otherwise!!]

If only it was a bit more affordable. I wonder if they do a group rate. Can you imagine a F2F there? Oh my. Heaven. If only it was more affordable.

Speaking of, I mentioned to my sister the flurry of interest in learning or relearning violin (was that here or in Natter?) and she's signed on to teach violin on Buffista Island. So that's one thing taken care of.

Pete, just so you know, I totally horrified Lewis last night with 80s videos. He spent more than thirty minutes groaning "Why are we watching this again?" yet couldn't tear himself away. Heh.

ION, I've been browsing the NaNo forums and just giggling madly-- so many of the participants are so young and they're so damned earnest (and most of them seem to be writing either high fantasy or "literary"-- of course).

God love their enthusiastic little hearts. One girl was lamenting the fact that she was getting so old and that she'd been doing NaNo for years and she hadn't been published yet and she was just so sure it would've happened by now.

She's 27.

According to an online BMI calculator I am 2 pounds away from overweight.

Waits for someone else to come along to say what utter bullshit the BMI scale is, for I am weary.

I'll do it! Though not as eloquently as you or Steph generally do.

Step away from the BMI. It is a crude tool measuring something of highly dubious value with little relation to your actual health or fitness.

It's bullshit because it doesn't take into account bone density and build and all sorts of other factors that have squat to do with maintaining a healthy weight which is completely different than this so-called "ideal" weight nonsense.

Did I hit the high points?

And also, you can be fat and healthy. And we do not have an obligation to be healthy for society anyway!