Poll #1486572 What's your tipple?
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My preferred beverage(s) in the morning is(are):

And here are fifteen(ish) amusingly illustrated things worth knowing about coffee.

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...+1 comment from sarahkucera: "Too soon for holiday lights Mayor Daley!

Shame on him."

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68 Icons. Doctor Who, Glee, Merlin, Pushing Daisies, Chuck

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A government health task force has just reported that women should not begin routine mammography until they are 50, noting that the possible risks *of the testing* (including false positives) outweigh early warning benefits.

But the panel received pivotal new information from researchers in Boston and elsewhere who developed scenarios to compare the benefits and harm of starting mammography at different ages and with different frequency. Delaying annual screening until age 50, this showed, would prevent one less cancer death per 1,000 women screened. But over a decade, there would also be 900 fewer cancer scares and 63 fewer unnecessary biopsies among these women.

Then again, if these new guidelines are followed together with precautionary endoscopies, a woman can get both ends done as a 50th birthday present. Oh, joy.

...can whup our junior senator ('cuz we don't really have one right now, but still) at geography. In fact, I'm betting your junior senator could out-draw anybody else in the U.S. Senate or House of Representatives:



And, in the "you draw your own state and tell us about it" sweepstakes (okay, it's really just a National Geographic educational activity for Geography Awareness Week), may I say that the senator from the Big Sky state is wicked lame? His state is a rectangle, and he couldn't even get the proportions right.

I can hardly wait to see what Kerry does with Massachusetts. Betcha the Cape's gonna look like a Husky's tail.

Holy cats! Tonight's episode has got to be the best they've done yet.

No spoilers from me. If you're on the West Coast, you're going to be very pleased.

:^D

Having shillied and shallied on jewelry, finally found Zoo Gallery's new Destin store and stopped off THursday. Found a turquoise pendant I thought would do the trick.
Picked TYG up a couple of hours later and it seemed like we held each other forever when she got off the plane. Then home, and an evening of snuggling and TMI things.
Friday, she had to work in the morning, then we went to the beach (Okaloosa Island) in the afternoon. Walking along the beach I finally asked her to sit and told her I loved her and gave her a card with an e.e. cummings quote: "Yes is a world and in this world of yes live all the worlds. Please say yes." and asked her (it was a birthday card but I stickered over the "Happy birthday.").
She was completely gobsmacked--I think she'd assumed, as I did, that we'd do it further down the road. But I'd wanted to do it before we moved in--it seemed more romantic that way. A part of me wonders if she wouldn't rather have waited (needless to say, being me, I'm second-guessing myself) but she said yes. And ultimately that's all that counts.
Friday night we went to dinner w/mum and charlotte, then back to the condo where they were staying. It went well.
Saturday, we went to rehearsal for the new dinner theater, then out to The Box. Great design (it's set in the seventies) but while not a waste of time, sinks under its own pretensions and a sucky ending (the eighties Twilight Zone did a much better job adapting the original short story). Then we came home and read for a while.
Then at 3:30 in the morning, TYG got a work call and had to be up for ninety minutes fixing the Internet.
Sunday we drove down to Seaside, ate at Bud & Alley's pizza, walked on the beach some more (but I didn't propose again). We were going to spend the evening visiting w/Mum but instead the Internet was still broken so TYG had to spend the evening on a conference call.
And this morning, she flew away ... but within two-to-3.5 months, I'll be with her again.

I asked TYG to pop the question. She said yes.
Then I mentioned it to one of the City Council. And it reached the mayor. And at tonight's meeting, he announced it in front of the audience (including the cable audience!).

Has anyone else noticed that when the kids on gLee performs at the end of the show, they're all wearing Chucks?

Peter Vadala was on Fox News this morning and set a record for the number of times one can say "homosexual" in a three-minute segment. He also positioned his homophobia as "love." As with most coverage, Fox News ignored Vadala's and his employer's account of the incident and went with the myth that he was terminated for saying something about gay marriage. Maybe I'm reading into it, but he appeared to get on the nerves Fox and Friends interviewer Peter Johnson, Jr. The video can be seen at the bottom of this Raw Story article which references my earlier post.

Ugh. As wonderful as it was to be at CRF and see everyone, I don't think I'll be trying that again.

Friday night: finish a hard rehearsal at 11, sleep for 4 hours on a sofa.

Saturday: pick tomomallie up from work, drive four and a half hours (with a snoring husband) to CRF just in time for gate, do Faire all day, Katelyn's memorial service, wench a new rogue and a soldier boy, win the Pinky and the Brain challenge, buy new sparkly, sit in the parking lot for an hour waiting for traffic to clear, drive to my parents house, eat white pizza, shower and pass out at 10:30.

Sunday: Up at 9:30, start home at 11:00. Have a tire blow out somewhere in SC around 3:00. Change tire, drop tomomallie off at his car, get to theatre around 4:30 (without having gone home first) to find it overrun with small children. Start rehearsal around 5:30, run-through at 7:30, end rehearsal by 10:00. Drive another hour home, in bad around 12:45 a.m.

I am exhausted and it is tech week. Not a good sign. Either I'm already getting too old for my life-style, or, as I'm beginning to suspect, I've got a mild version of chronic fatigue syndrome. I'm beginning to suspect the latter.


Two weeks ago I got a photo with my favorite fairy!!

What is your favorite guilty pleasure movie? A movie that makes your friends question your sanity. (Or, if you have as cool of friends as I do go "yeah, isn't it terrible? Let's watch it again")

For me it's Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone. Really, it's serious cheese. One of my favorite things is trying to work out who is taking it seriously and who isn't. It's a killer cast, Molly Ringwald as an alien planet valley girl, really, she's deeply funny, Ernie Hudson walking through the same part that he seemed to play in every 80s movie he was in and Michael Ironside as the heavily made up villain, having more fun than the rest of the cast put together.

If you want to come over to my place, I'll make the popcorn and throw it up on the big screen.

Hey, guys!

I've posted that before in ci_fans_unite , but here it goes:

Would you like to do something for Christmas? Like exchange cards and may be small gifts with other fans? Write a fanfic or a christmas poem? Make a Christmas wallpaper or a calendar? Anything else?

Well, here's the poll to see what you guys would like to do this Christmas, so please, if you could just take a moment to fill it in.

Thank you.

*thanks to mods for letting me post

Hey, guys!

I've posted that before in ci_fans_unite , but here it goes:

Would you like to do something for Christmas? Like exchange cards and may be small gifts with other fans? Write a fanfic or a christmas poem? Make a Christmas wallpaper or a calendar? Anything else?

Well, here's the poll to see what you guys would like to do this Christmas, so please, if you could just take a moment to fill it in.

Thank you.

One of my favorite things to do is watch NASA TV on a day when there is a shuttle launch scheduled.

T minus 50 minutes, and counting. Green to go on weather.

And I can watch it from my office. Yay!