I have a structural inspector climbing around my crawl-space. Send me no-pest-ma?

I was sure the appointment was for 9:30 AM. So I slept in, finally rolled out of bed after 8, wandered around the house in my PJs, put water on for tea, etc, and then went to the front door to put the dog out at 8:30. Still in my PJs.

Whereupon I realized the structural inspector was getting out of his car, half an hour early for a 9AM appointment. Yikes.

Hey look! Somewhere to complain about your diamond shoes being to tight! [link]

The thing about diamond shoes is: they are very hard to stretch. If they start out too tight they're never gonna fit. Might as well cut off your toes, get it over with.

The dorm in which my mother lived used to be a brothel. They still had the occasional confused gentleman caller turn up.

My brother's (all guys) high school was across the street from a brothel. They'd be out playing basketball in the parking lot and the ladies would be chatting with them from their porch.

I think whining to y'all last night about my face and the pain meds helped. Shocker. I've only taken Ibuprofen today and I'm ok. Face is much less swollen. I don't look like I was on the losing end of a fight anymore. Not sure if I will go to karate tonight. Maybe just my private lesson.

Three more days until I see my daughter. Woot!!!

Kevin Costner and James Cameron to help BP clean oil spill

The Hollywood star has been bobbing around the Mississippi Delta helping representatives of the British oil firm and US coastguard test-drive a stainless steel device called the Ocean Therapy. In a claim which sounds as unlikely as the plot premise of Waterworld, he says it can quickly and efficiently clean oil from tainted sea water.

Bizarrely, Costner may be on to something. The actor has spent 15 years and roughly $26m (£18m) of his personal fortune developing the patented machine with the help of his elder brother Dan, a scientist. It works like a giant vacuum cleaner, sucking up dirty liquid and then using a high-speed centrifuge to separate it into oil, and heavier water.

Costner isn't the only Hollywood star taking an interest in the disaster. The Avatar director James Cameron has offered to make his collection of submarines available to clean-up teams, while Robert Redford is starring in a TV ad sponsored by the Natural Resources Defence Council, which uses the spill to call for the US government to promote clean energy.

(Yes, James Cameron apparently has enough submarines to qualify as a "collection." Go on, act surprised.)

Go, Kevin Costner!

Oh, so THAT'S why my salary is so far below market.

I just sent that around here as an FYI. Crazy!

My first year roommate was crazy stupid and eventually flunked out.

Our housing situation was so bad that the only people that had a singles were the people in the one complex that had 5-person apts, which anyone could get in the annual lottery. Freshman lived in all-freshman dorms with only doubles and shared bathrooms for the entire floor. And we had to choose at least one year to live off-campus.

Yeah...I'm not holding my breath for either of those two to stop the leak.

Yeah, but Costner has gills and can breathe underwater!