No donuts for us today.

There's an awesome pastry shop in downtown Evanston I could have gone to on my lunch, but instead I went to Borders to get scifi books.

Well, in the long run that was a better plan....

Raise your hand if you're surprised to hear that George W apparently cribbed much of his memoir from other books and newspaper articles. Including a few things that didn't happen. [link]

In one prime instance, Bush relates a poignant meeting between Afghan President Hamid Karzai and a Tajik warlord on Karzai's Inauguration Day. It's the kind of scene that offers a glimpse of a hopeful future for the beleaguered nation. Witnessing such an exchange could color a president's outlook, could explain perhaps Bush's more optimistic outlook and give insight into his future decisions. Except Bush didn't witness it. Because he wasn't at Karzai's inauguration.

His absence doesn't stop Bush from relating this anecdote: "When Karzai arrived in Kabul for his inauguration on December 22 - 102 days after 9/11 - several Northern Alliance leaders and their bodyguards greeted him at an airport. As Karzai walked across the tarmac alone, a stunned Tajik warlord asked where all his men were. Karzai, responded, 'Why, General, you are my men. All of you who are Afghans are my men.'"

That meeting would sound familiar to Ahmed Rashid, author of "The Mess in Afghanistan", who wrote in the New York Review of Books: "At the airport to receive [Karzai] was the warlord General Mohammad Fahim, a Tajik from the Panjshir Valley .... As the two men shook hands on the tarmac, Fahim looked confused. 'Where are your men?' he asked. Karzai turned to him in his disarmingly gentle manner of speaking. 'Why General," he replied, "you are my men--all of you are Afghans and are my men.'"

Bush's lifting of the anecdote, while disappointing on a literary level, does raise the intriguing possibility that Bush actually read Rashid's article

ita, Linda the Bra Lady sent me e-mail saying they have push-up bikinis. I don't need them, but maybe there's something there for you? Looks like a plethora of cup sizes. [link]

Sweet! The Super pretty hoodie I ordered for JZ arrived.

I hope the medium fits because it was the last one they had in any size.

Tommy, I've been meaning to read Windup Girl so I'm now emboldened to go get it.

The Super pretty hoodie I ordered for JZ arrived.

That is pretty....

One of my high school classmates just posted on Facebook that she is now a grandmother. Oy.

I think that Cat is doing it Wrong

Of course the bikini tops I like the best add one to two cups and therefore don't come in my size. But that's a good selection, -t. Thanks.

Timelies all!

Happy Birthday Jess!

Aurelia, I got an e-mail from a high school friend who I hadn't heard from pretty much since high school.In it she said she had 9 kids and a couple of grandkids. (Mind you, this was someone who got pregnant senior year of high school, so it's not completely far-fetched...) All I could do was blink for a bit.

There were several in my class who had kids before graduation, including one girl who had two. I don't remember if she is one of them though.