I feel like that would cause lots of weird spasms.

Shitting nickels, or licking brains?

Licking brains. With shitting nickels, the weird spasms come first.

What? Do you think I shit nickels?

Everyone would be eating lots more fiber if that were true. And vegetarians would rule the world. Muahahahahahaha

Hello. Again.

I'd say I'm back, but I fear I'll just wake up screaming and sweating, a night before another final exam/paper deadline. I had 10 of these, and I still got two seminars to write, but I've got a month for these two babies so I can go and play outside with the dangerous strangers (the 10 papers and finals, however, were taken in just under two months). I don't feel victorious such as downcast. They turned my brain from fun into somewhat neurotic place. And in the last 48 hours everything that could go wrong, went wrong.

Anyhow. I can see that you're talking about Ground Zero mosque. That, and shitting nickels. I approve the first, can't really see the interest you're finding in the latter.

I also approve of vegetarians.

Is there any objection to the cultural centre actually coming from New York? Just, living in London, it seems like in a big city you'd have to take offense every two minutes if stuff like that was going to bother you. Extremists blew up a bunch of people on the tube here, and no one seems to mind when new mosques are built. Prior to that, Irish terrorists were blowing things to smithereens on a regular basis, and no one was protesting against Irish pubs (there is a joke in Ireland though about how we all love Muslim extremists now, because we don't get pulled at airport security anymore).

Is there any objection to the cultural centre actually coming from New York?

There is some, but most of the polls show New Yorkers much more supportive of it than Americans as a whole. And I have no idea where I saw this poll, but there was one that broke down the numbers in a few different geographical ways, and basically, as you kept getting closer in to the actual neighborhood (like, first looking at the city as a whole, then just Manhattan, then Lower Manhattan), the support kept going up.

Hil, I bet that would make an awesome graphic.

With regard to the facebook defriending - I don't think I'd notice if anyone ever defriended me, unless they out and out told me. I don't pay enough attention to things, a lot of the time.

I forgot to close the downstairs windows before going up to bed last night. Brr cold now.

Jealous! Of the cold, that is.

There is a table at work...the "snack table" where people dump food for everyone on the floor. There's often popcorn [1], a cake if someone just certified in some discipline, cookies when someone felt like baking, leftover pizza iif someone didn't finish their dinner...that sort of thing. Nothing lasts long on the table. For 5 days now there have been 4 individually wrapped "fruit and nut dessert loaf"s sitting there, forlorn, like unwanted fruit cakes. I'm almost astonished...but then remember all the stories about fruit cakes.

Random thoughts.

[1] The city won't foot the bill to give us free coffee, but they provide a movie-theatre style corn popper in the breakroom along with corn and oil. Go figure. Greasy fingers on keyboard = ok but freely cafinated shift workers = not ok

Stories about fruit cakes? Ha?

Hi, Shir, wonderful to see your font!

erin_o, kinda makes me wonder which council member has a relative with a popcorn maker factory and/or movie theater that had surplus popcorn makers.