I am eating a big whitey muffin. Cranberry/orange with giant sugar crystals on top. MMMM.

That'd make a HECKUVA bagel!

runs away

There was also an article about Sondheim in today's NYT: [link]

I am doing very assitant-y things today, which is fine, but really not my normal work, so I am irked. Like, sorry you lost that receipt from drinks out a month ago, I do nto enjoy calling the restaurant asking for them to dig it our for me.

at least she wasn't asking for spices to season the food :) (which I found hilarious)

It's a crapshoot being in public with her at the best of times. She calls it being an anthropologist, I call it unapologetically nosy and unrepentant. She will talk to anyone about anything.

That'd make a HECKUVA bagel!

Ooooh, burn!

Yay! Darwin Award winners revealed

Two bank robbers have been declared winners of the 2009 Darwin Awards after they blew themselves up while trying to crack open a cash machine.

The Belgian pair used so much explosive to get their hands on the money that they destroyed the whole bank building.

When police arrived at the scene, they found one of them with severe head injuries, and rushed him to hospital where he died shortly after arrival.

Investigators initially assumed that his accomplice had managed a getaway, but the second one's body was excavated from the debris twelve hours later.

Wendy Northcutt, the founder of the annual awards, declared them the 2009 winners of the Darwin Awards, given to those "doing the most to improve the human gene pool by removing themselves from it".

The bank robbers just edged ahead of their main rival Shawn Motero who was stuck in a traffic crawl in Florida when he needed to answer a call of nature.

With no toilet handy, he got out of the car before jumping over a concrete wall to find a more secluded spot.

Unfortunately, the 30-year-old had not realised he was on a bridge, and fell 65 feet to his death. Award organisers said it proved you should "look before you leak".

In third place was the first ever woman to be nominated for the award. Rosanne Tippett drove her moped into a flooded river, despite the warning signs.

She was rescued by police, but died after jumping back into the river in an attempt to recover the two-wheeler.

There's nothing like reading examples of human stupidity leading to death to cheer up one's day....

I don't file them, period. Gives me the heebie-jeebies. I just clip them.

Clipping tends to make peeling worse. Which doesn't stop me, of course.

Cash, the NailTek stuff will have the same issue as Nail Envy. Most strengtheners will, because they use formaldehyde for strengthening. Honestly, even the formaldehyde-free strengtheners seem to have a negative effect if you use them longer than short-term.

The biggest difference anything's made for me is using lotion and occasionally cuticle cream. A lot of people swear by biotin, though.

Is it Russian Navy? I love that color. I wear it on my toes a lot. DC is a conservative town, I can't get away with blue on my fingernails.

Possibly. I haven't found a good source of OPI nail polish in the area and online colors don't always give a true look at the real color.

My office is fairly conservative. I think I'm the only one who shows up with painted nails of any color, but what the heck. I wish I could do funky colors in my hair, but I think that would be a step beyond.

Clipping tends to make peeling worse.

So clipping is worse than filing? Darn.

I probably need to let my nails rest a few days in between removing and reapplying. I put Burt's Bees hand salve on every night, but that doesn't help when I'm wearing nail polish. Best nails I ever had was in Moldova - I guess mass quantities of unrefined sunflower oil, taken internally, are good for nails?

omg as the day goes on I am just getting more and more cranky. people! do not like!