karmaflu

i complained all august about how unnecessarily and impossibly hot it was. now, in my typical bad-karma fashion, i am paying for it. it's been unseasonably beautiful with highs in the mid-80s, sunny skies and low humidity. i've been celebrating it with a weeklong sinus headache and stuffy nose to go with.

the good news is, after about a month, i'm back on my meds :-)

ok

i'm checking my e-mail before i go to traffic court this morning (see post below). i get a daily e-mail from cool people care, with suggestions on how to do things that treats the world and its people better.

today's comment? don't speed.

ok, people. i get the picture. i'm a reformed woman who's stopped speeding.

dah dum

now that i got that last post out of my system, the only thing i have to share today, other than the fact that i'm still as exhausted as all get out, is a funny little tidbit from a former co-worker of mine.

i noted his cell phone ring tone _ 'beast of burden'

he mentioned a girl he knows used to have the 'law and order' theme song as her cell phone ring tone. said subject, a reporter, found herself one day at the scene of a triple homicide when her cell phone did, in fact, ring.

she decided she probably should get a different ring tone.

elvis' pelvis

i don't want to make light of this poor guy's situation, especially since he was and possibly still is in serious condition. but the irony in his accident can't go unmentioned:

'Flying Elvis' suffers broken pelvis.

irony

facebook unveiled a new feature yesterday called a news feed which shows everyone your every move on facebook ... "joe and fred are now friends," "jack and jill just broke up" and "jimbob just picked his nose."

the students have organized groups on facebook, such as "the facebook facelift sucks," to express their discontent. those groups have become wildly popular, with a few expanding to tens of thousands of members in the span of 24 hours.

how did everyone find out about the facebook sucks groups so quickly? their news feeds told them about their friends joining.

irony

mario cantone, probably best known for playing anthony marintino, a gay stylist on sex in the city (which was hardly acting for him), was on celebrity poker showdown today. he managed to stay in for quite a while, and played pretty well. but, an unfortunate stroke of bad luck took all his money. he went all in on a hand that almost seemed guranteed to win. but it didn't.

his hand? three queens
what he lost to? a straight

coffee

sometimes i start the coffeemaker and then proceed to forget about it.

this is obviously when i need my coffee the most.