What's everybody's plan to be non-sedentary today?

I'm hole punched about a million pages for 3-ring binders this morning, and will no doubt be carting boxes of the stuff to FedEx later today. I doubt any Olympic athletes would be impressed, but it's enough to make my back and shoulders hurt.

According to the NYT, Obama is going to stop defending the Defense of Marriage act in court challenges [link]

Dear Barack: Fuck you very much for your non-support up to this non-road block.

but it's enough to make my back and shoulders hurt.

I would be taking some prophylactic ibuprofen.

I almost feel tempted to buy the ballet workout just to look at it.

If anyone wants to look me up on Words With Friends, I'm itamoon. I can't promise to keep playing with the response time I've been playing with to start, but it's fun.

Wednesday morning is FOUR HOURS of conference calls. How am I actually expected to get stuff done?

An interesting article: The Lost Art of Pickpocketing

Pickpocketing in America was once a proud criminal tradition, rich with drama, celebrated in the culture, singular enough that its practitioners developed a whole lexicon to describe its intricacies. Those days appear to be over. "Pickpocketing is more or less dead in this country," says Harvard economist Edward Glaeser, whose new book Triumph of the City, deals at length with urban crime trends. "I think these skills have been tragically lost. You've got to respect the skill of some pickpocket relative to some thug coming up to you with a knife. A knife takes no skill whatsoever. But to lift someone's wallet without them knowing …"

Marcus Felson, a criminologist at Texas State University who has spent decades studying low-level crime, calls pickpocketing a "lost art." Last year, a New York City subway detective told the Daily News that the only pickpockets left working the trains anymore were middle-aged or older, and even those are few and far between. "You don't find young picks anymore," the cop told the paper. "It's going to die out." A transit detective in the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority, which operates the Boston area's bus, commuter rail, and subway system, concurred via e-mail. "Pickpockets are a dying breed," he wrote. "The only known pickpockets we encounter are older, middle-aged men; however, they are rarely seen on the system anymore."

I wish I could play Words With Friends. I'm limited to Scrabble on Facebook, though.

As if I need another way to procrastinate.

Last night's NCIS began with a young pickpocket who ended up picking a purse filled with teeth and fingertips.

Edited to whitefont--sorry about forgetting the rules!!

Last night's NCIS began with a young pickpocket who ended up picking a purse filled with teeth and fingertips.

Hey, you picks your pockets, you takes your chances.

Whitefont!