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Just testing the new layout, really.

I am a posting madwoman today, but that’s only because I’m getting out and I’m actually reading news stories today.  Because it can’t be linked to enough, read this on the FDA’s stalling when it comes to approving emergency contraception for over-the-counter sales:
Via Planned Parenthood.
A minor blurb in the NY Times (reg. req.) about the [...]

Ooof.  When one steps down, there’s always going to be another one to take its place, right?
I have relatively new (okay, they’ve started their second year here) neighbors to the west side of my house.  They seem nice, but we don’t talk all that much.  They have a dog that, while beautiful, barks.  A lot.  [...]

My boyfriend and I sometimes (read: maybe once or twice) have small tussles over the definitions of the words "geek," "dork" and "nerd."  It is my prevailing attitude that I am all of the above in the most positive of ways.  I also say that my boyfriend is a "science geek" simply because he knows [...]

I spent the day placating a new client whose report didn’t turn out the way she was hoping.  As I’m just a third-party observer and have no interest in what happens (I deal with objectively producing the results, not the politics that come from the results), I tried to reassure her that yes, the report [...]

And so I sit here, on a Monday morning, dreading the sensory horror that is my office, pondering the coffee that just finished brewing.  I am contemplating the task of drying my hair, tempted to whip up some of my gourmet toast, trying very hard not to scratch the millions of mosquito bites that appeared [...]

Happy birthday to my wonderful boyfriend, who has apparently regressed to the age of 26 (last I checked, he was going on 31, but I guess I can’t really disagree with him since it is his birthday).  As soon as he picks up the pace and gets the heck ready, we’re off to do some [...]

To the dude who nearly hit my car as I was driving through the Meijer parking lot - you DO have to follow the lanes, you know.  You are NOT supposed to cross multiple parking spaces and lanes, cutting across them indiscriminately as the rest of us (okay, some of us, namely, ME) try to [...]

And they protest because running 10 miles is always a challenge for me.  I’m trying to relax right now, but who can ever relax in today’s world?  I’m not try to be deep, actually, I’m just too lazy to write anything of interest.
At around 10:30am, I had nearly finished composing quite a long post to [...]

So I got together with some high school friends tonight.  Four of us (out of a group of five) are still in the area, so we sometimes remember that and get together accordingly.  They are all married, so there are times when I’m staring off into space as they talk about the trials and tribulations [...]