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(except for the science and epicurean stuff)

Because we all have secrets, and apparently my grandmother is on the internet these days.


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It's been a while -- a long while -- since I wrote in here regularly. I should change that ( Read more... )

Dear Republicans ( Read more... )

I wrote this as a rant following a spree of unfriending guys I'd gone to college with or who I only vaaaguely knew through legitimate friends adding me as friends and then bugging the hell out of me. It was alternately titled on my Facebook feed as "why we hot girls don't give you the time of day after you meet us in person, find us and friend us ( Read more... )

Retrocrush rarely fails to deliver some amusing social interplay, but their Worst Retro Halloween Costumes list had me hanging off my lab stool laughing this morning. Especially since I'm old enough to actually get most of the references.

Who wants to be Scott Baio?


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Really -- I'm pretty busy today. But I'm in a bad mood because of Maine.

Yeah you, Maine.With your lobsters and hairy oversized cats and hairy oversized fisherman... YOU are a disappointment to those other New England states that've gotten on the ball to be modern ( Read more... )

This recent peanut butter recall brought to mind today how unlucky peanut butter has been to me in the past. Not that I'd stop eating it (especially now that I grind my own organic butter at the food co-operative), but sometimes seeing a jar full of the gloppy brown stuff sends me into post-traumatic stress paroxysms ( Read more... )

My father was fond of saying "Nell'botti piccine -- ci sta il vino buono!"* I think he used that phrase a lot because, to put it politely, I was a short runty midget child who grew unhappily to the size of an average eleven-year-old. Whereas my sister blossomed into a tall, willowy beauty pageant winner with size 10 feet (I think Brooke Shields ( Read more... )

I've spent, collectively, a solid hour at work today playing with this website an entomologist sent me. For maximum fun, place a bunch of dead flies in random spots around the map and watch him gorge.


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I think it's an awesome idea to set aside a day to be thankful and to spend with friends, family and/or the less fortunate (hey; I used to spend Thanksgivings in a soup kitchen with people a lot more sane than my mother). But seriously, folks, let's get the record straight ( Read more... )