Good luck making it out of town, ita!

If anyone wants a pick-me-up today I highly recommend reading this darling children's story, written & illustrated by my friend Sal. So adorable, and the art is fab.

By comparison, I feel uncreative and blah. My parents called me after 11PM last night, my mother all spun up about something that wasn't a problem at all, and of course that meant I slept very poorly, and then got up at 5:30AM to go running.

In better news, I'm taking three days off next week, and hopefully I'll get my new bike this weekend. Yay new bike!

The end of the world: [link]

ita ! thanks! I have NEVER heard of this! My Target pharma is calling my doc and my insurance to see what can be done.

She's all "You should have some meds left till the 27th" and I was like "FLU! Puked several out and had to take extra! And if I have to spend 4 days at my in-laws with no sleep, Xmas will NOT be merry."

So we shall see!

That's why I like Walgreen's. As long as your scrip is on file with them, you can refill anywhere and not worry about getting it early. I've had no problem that way, so far. I reserve the right to cuss them out if I ever do run into problems.

Huh. I've been avoiding specific Newtown news stories since it happened, but now as I've been getting the facts, I'm astounded by the misinformation and reckless speculation on that day. I thought I'd gleaned the facts eventually, but I still thought that the killer's mother worked at the school. I had no idea that he actually had no connection to the school at all and just randomly decided to go on this horrific shooting spree. Somehow that makes it even more horrifying than it was.

If anyone wants a pick-me-up today I highly recommend reading this darling children's story, written & illustrated by my friend Sal. So adorable, and the art is fab.

Oh, that is lovely.

Pix, I heard a piece on NPR yesterday about how the story was prone to initial reporting errors and, in general, how incorrect reporting happens. What I thought was interesting was that the reporter (David Folkenflick, but I have no idea how to spell that for real) went back and listened to the initial reports on the Reagan assassination and there were also lots of initial incorrect reports.

9/11 was totally like that. Initial reports were that a "small plane" hit one of the towers. I wonder if that initial report had been that it was a big airliner, would it have affected people in the other tower differently? Maybe they would have been less likely to see the crash as an accident, resulting in more people from the second tower leaving before the second plane hit.

Grandmothers, with their signature dishes.

The caterpillar actually looks kind of appetizing.