After weathering nearly five years of war, Baghdad residents thought they'd pretty much seen it all. But Friday morning, as muezzins were calling the faithful to prayer, the people here awoke to something certifiably new.
For the first time in memory, snow fell across Baghdad.

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1. Efficiency
2. Planning
3. High levels of creativity, inquisitiveness & determination
4. Working out again
5. People-watching on public transportation
6. two new bras, swimsuit and long shorts, courtesy of Mom
7. my haircut
8. mild spring-like weather
9. Amy Winehouse
10. Pay day Friday!
11. Insane amounts of meta-tags for each entry ;)

Associated Press - Climate report: Poor will suffer most*

"Without action to curb carbon emissions, man's livable habitat will shrink starkly, said Stephen Schneider, a Stanford scientist who was one of the authors. 'Don't be poor in a hot country, don't live in hurricane alley, watch out about being on the coasts or in the Arctic, and it's a bad ( Read more... )

14 inches of snow and counting.
Suiting up for a walk; wish me luck.

Coffee breakfast after a night full of storms and dreams ( Read more... )

Woke up to a damp chill in the air (thanks to last night's storm) and Bikini Kill's "Carnival" in my head.

Today has all the earmarks of a good day.

SO.
BLOODY.
DAMP.

Soon the desert wind will stop, and I will stop feeling as though I am expelling huge clods of dirt from my lungs every time I cough.

An Inconvenient Truth, a documentary about the (very real) human effects and consequences of global warming starring former Vice President Al Gore.
Yes.
THAT Al Gore.
The man who makes the walking dead look like a bunch of holy rollers.

Do us a favor, though: put all your preconceptions aside and just give it a shot. C'mon... watch the trailer ( Read more... )