I have a kitten on my shoulder. I'm only partly awake, so I'm not sure I'm not hallucinating it.

Baltimore public schools have instituted "Meatless Mondays" for school lunches. The American Meat Institute says "students are being served up an unhealthy dose of indoctrination." Lou Dobbs says it's "a political storm in the making." [link]

At my high school, Mondays were always meatless, because Monday was pizza day. And during Lent, Fridays were also meatless, though they'd sometimes have fish.

Now I want the Dairy Cheese Board (who'll like the idea of Meatless Monday) to get in a throwdown with the American Meat Institute. Maybe get a few California Raisins in on the rumble?

sarameg, congrats from here, too!

baby night (baby acclimating classes. They always grin at me and splash as I go past and that puts me in a good mood.)

My pool center has two pools, the lap pool that I use and one for families/kids that goes from zero-depth (for the babies) to a lazy-river section with a bit of a current that kids like to swim through. Sometimes the kids come over to the lap pool and get in our way, but the lifeguards do a good job patrolling and getting them to move.

I got my snow boots, but my feet don't quite fit into them (high arch issues), so I have to exchange them for the double-wide size.

Mom's coming up here in the next four hours, and I still have to finish cleaning. I won't have time to get over to the grocery store, so Mom's going to have to come with me this afternoon or evening (maybe after we go out for dinner).

I love how the American Meat Institute person is all about how this is taking away a choice that should be the parents' choice, but CNN can't actually find a parent to complain about it. Everybody actually involved seems to like the idea.

Also, in terms of school lunches, the "choice" argument makes no sense. Most schools will just serve one entree per day. Whether that entree has meat or not, it's still the school making the choice.

I love how the American Meat Institute person is all about how this is taking away a choice that should be the parents' choice, but CNN can't actually find a parent to complain about it. Everybody actually involved seems to like the idea.

I imagine any parents who were really that vehemently opposed to the idea could also, you know...make a bag lunch for their kid on Mondays? It's not like the schools are going to have meat-sniffing dogs roaming the halls looking for ham sandwiches.

OMFG. I apparently lost my building ID yesterday. After 3+ years!! I hope it's at my apartment, but can't imagine when it would have jumped out of my purse. I swear.

It's not like the schools are going to have meat-sniffing dogs roaming the halls looking for ham sandwiches.

Although, it's pretty much true that all dogs are meat-sniffing dogs.

It's dark at 7 am. sobs

I wish I knew what apocalyptic thing happened at 7:15 such that I could hear sirens throughout my whole shower. It was crazy.

I'm overhearing IT discussions that lead me to believe I'm going to get blown off, at which point I'm going to get slightly catty and point out that the impact to my project is much greater than their inconvenience (in fixing something THEY broke.)

My stocking is shredding.

I hate our IT department, but it's kind of unjustified, which I hate more. They don't have a lot of people, and the people they have are underqualified because the pay is such crap. So, I can't get them to do ordinary things and respond to questions because they're too busy keeping the infrastructure from collapsing.