I have to actually play the cowgirl game, sadly (?).

Huh. I wonder why?

Early wake up this morning. When I wake up inadvertantly at 4, it generally ruins my day. Good thing I'm at a training where I can sit and just be extra bitter. Last time, I wore my extra bitter t-shirt, but I have since given that to ita.

I want that shirt! Oh and the other shirt! Is the other shirt even a shirt? It should be...

And want to go back to sleep as well. Have emailed parents though about part 1 of the holiday travels. I'll tick that in the win column. Kinda.

Cass, it's a great shirt, but since I'm not actually extra bitter (though the women's PE department at my school is currently sporting these as a warning), I figured I'd get bittersweet which is more truth in advertising.

I was woken up at 4:30 by random yowling. He does this, I don't know why. I yell at him until he wanders into the bedroom and settles down. Then I go back to sleep. And yet? I can sleep through alarms, fire-truck sirens, my mother....

My Dad would wake up in the middle of the night if a cow was mooing in distress - something that was almost impossible for the rest of us to hear from the house even when awake.

Al Gore is awesome:

Al Gore did a terrific interview with GQ this month, which covered quite a bit of ground. The discussion of 9/11 was particularly noteworthy.

GQ asked, for example, whether we’d be safer today if he’d won the 2000 race. Gore said, “Well, no one [can] say that the 9-11 attack wouldn’t have occurred whoever was president.”

GQ followed up, “Really? How about all the warnings?” That’s when it got good. The description of Gore’s speaking style appears in the original:

“That’s a separate question. And it’s almost too easy to say, ‘I would have heeded the warnings.’ In fact, I think I would have, I know I would have. We had several instances when the CIA’s alarm bells went off, and what we did when that happened was, we had emergency meetings and called everybody together and made sure that all systems were go and every agency was hitting on all cylinders, and we made them bring more information, and go into the second and third and fourth level of detail. And made suggestions on how we could respond in a more coordinated, more effective way. It is inconceivable to me that Bush would read a warning as stark and as clear [voice angry now] as the one he received on August 6th of 2001, and, according to some of the new histories, he turned to the briefer and said, ‘Well, you’ve covered your ass.’ And never called a follow up meeting. Never made an inquiry. Never asked a single question. To this day, I don’t understand it. And, I think it’s fair to say that he personally does in fact bear a measure of blame for not doing his job at a time when we really needed him to do his job.

“And now the Woodward book has this episode that has been confirmed by the record that George Tenet, who was much abused by this administration, went over to the White House for the purpose of calling an emergency meeting and warning as clearly as possible about the extremely dangerous situation with Osama bin Laden, and was brushed off! And I don’t know why — honestly — I mean, I understand how horrible this Congressman Foley situation with the instant messaging is, okay? I understand that. But, why didn’t these kinds of things produce a similar outrage? And you know, I’m even reluctant to talk about it in these terms because it’s so easy for people to hear this or read this as sort of cheap political game-playing. I understand how it could sound that way. [Practically screaming now] But dammit, whatever happened to the concept of accountability for catastrophic failure? This administration has been by far the most incompetent, inept, and with more moral cowardice, and obsequiousness to their wealthy contributors, and obliviousness to the public interest of any administration in modern history, and probably in the entire history of the country!”

When Gore gets on a roll, he’s really, really good.

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The heretofore unknown science of "earthing", patented by Clint Ober, is that your body needs to be earthed so that you can have the earth's antioxidizing flow of free electrons to go through your body and extinguish free radicals.

Earthing Axiom:

The earth's infinite supply of free electrons will neutralize free radicals in your body and will thus help to stave off disease and aging. YOUR BODY WAS DESIGNED TO BE IN CONTACT WITH THE EARTH FOR MANY HOURS PER DAY.

Being connected via our barefeet to the earth appears destined to provide us with many far-reaching health benefits, which when coupled with modern medical prowess and optimum nutrition will offer mankind the best opportunity for health and longevity possible.

There's a whole ginormous website with this crap. Really, it's like snakeoil - it cures or helps everything. I wanna find the guy and tell him, "Look, there ain't no infinite supply of electrons. But you've proven there's an infinite supply of stupiditrons."

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YOUR BODY WAS DESIGNED TO BE IN CONTACT WITH THE EARTH FOR MANY HOURS PER DAY.

And he's selling...what, exactly? 'Cause I can walk barefoot in the park for free.

And he's selling...what, exactly? 'Cause I can walk barefoot in the park for free.

Well, he says that it's not practical to be in contact with the earth for hours each day. So he's selling some pad thingie that does the same thing.

ION, Pretty Starship Enterprise lamps made of wood: [link]

Oh, Jensen Ackles. I always thought he was extremely pretty, but breathtaking in a boring sort of way. Then he got a little older, put on a leather jacket, and started cracking wise, and now every time he's on screen in Supernatural, he's got a direct line to my lizard brain.