I'll agree, but I would have preferred something by Isabel Allende

You're One Hundred Years of Solitude!

by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Lonely and struggling, you've been around for a very long time.
Conflict has filled most of your life and torn apart nearly everyone you know. Yet there
is something majestic and even epic about your presence in the world. You love life all
the more for having seen its decimation. After all, it takes a village.


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Ten things I love about my life

So you won't all think I'm a huge whiny loser:

1. I love a wonderful man and he loves me. Lots of people don't get that lucky.
   
2. I work with a great bunch of people. They are all top-notch at what they do.
   
3. I have friends. People often say, "Hi, Laurel, how are you?" And I KNOW they mean it.
   
4. We have ceremonies where I work. I love ceremonies.
   
5. I have a wonderful crawdad living in my back yard.
   
6. My friends are virtual (like the ones at Appalachian Greens) as well as face-to-face. Heck, I've probably walked or driven past Kayak or Elvis, but neither of us would know it.
   
7. I've been reading and sharing great books with my friends.
   
8. Thus far this year, four beautiful babies have been born healthy to my friends. What's better than that? UPDATE: Five beautiful, healthy babies. That's what's better than four. Welcome, Chloe!
9. I still can't count, but luckily I'm in a field where it really doesn't matter.
   

Ten things I hate about my life

1. People who laugh when I have computer difficulties. I know, it's an occupational hazard, but PLEASE show some empathy when I've shagged my little tail over to your office and found that I'm having troubles too. Surprise: if it were easy you wouldn't have had to call me!
2. People who swear that the impossible has happened, i.e., Them: "I know you can do a back handspring." Me: "Nope, I can't do a back handspring. Never could." Them: "but I SAW you do a back handspring last spring." ME: You must have seen someone else. Them: "No, it was you, I know it!" As if their being mistaken is a moral deficit.
   
3. 13-hour days.
   
4. Hurting feet.
5. Endless humidity. Is this related to global warming?
   
6. My honey is WAAAAY too far away.
   
7. The fact that I can't count too well.
   

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Family History Clues from Cemeteries

You'd be amazed how many Family History Clues you can get from Cemeteries.

Holy Schmitt!

It's almost time for football season again! This clip of Owen Schmitt should get you in the mood for football.

Aaaaah, less than a month!

I CAN HAS CHEEZBURGER? � Blog Archive A Special In-Depth Analysis by David McRaney - L337 Katz0rz �

I CAN HAS CHEEZBURGER? � Blog Archive A Special In-Depth Analysis by David McRaney - L337 Katz0rz � This article is a fascinating look at the LOLcat phenomenon, including the kitteh speak.

System Administrator Appreciation Day

Share the love. Today is System Administrator Appreciation Day. Let's face it: nobody thinks about the people who make the Internet work every day. We just cuss them when the conenctions are too slow or a site goes down. WE don't realize that they work very hard, are on call 24-7-365, and care about nothing more than keeping the connections up and running so that we can look up our LOLcats. I realize a little bit of what sysadmins do, having closely worked with them for over 7; years (sheesh!). They don't get the credit or the recognition they deserve. So if you can, hug a sysadmin. Or at least send an email thanking your friendly neighborhood sysadmin. They don't bite. Well, most of them. :-)

Kids these days

This studyNew MTV, Nickelodeon and Microsoft Challenges Assumptions About Relationship Between Kids, Youth & Digital Technology. It's an interesting idea, and I wonder if I can get the concepts out to my faculty. They think the kids know everything about how the technology works, and I've known for a while that they really don't. They're great with application and how-to,but not so good with implications and fixing.

it's official

According to Facebook, I have 34 friends. According to GoodReads, I have read 50 books. So now I have more books than friends.

You can make of that what you will.

It's official.

I am a Freak.

Your Score: Freak- INFJ

46% Extraversion, 66% Intuition, 33% Thinking, 53% Judging

Well, well, well. How did someone like you end up with the least common personality type of them all? In a group of 100 Americans, only 0.5 others would be just like you. You really are one of a kind... In fact, I do believe that that's one of the definitions for the word "FREAK."

Freak's not such a bad word to describe you actually.

You are deep, complex, secretive and extremely difficult to understand. If that doesn't scream "Freak!" I don't know what does. No-one actually knows the REAL you, do they?

You probably have deep interests in creative expression as well as issues of spirituality and human development.

You've probably even been called a "psychic" before, because of your uncanny knack to understand and "read" people without quite knowing how you do it. Don't fret. You're not actually psychic. That would make you special and you'll never accomplish that.

You're also quite possible the most emotional of them all, so don't take this all too hard. Nevertheless you most definitely have the strangest personality type and that's not necessarily a good thing.

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If you want to learn more about your personality type in a slightly less negative way, check out this.

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The other personality types are as follows...

Loner - Introverted Sensing Feeling Perceiving

Pushover - Introverted Sensing Feeling Judging

Criminal - Introverted Sensing Thinking Perceiving

Borefest - Introverted Sensing Thinking Judging

Almost Perfect - Introverted iNtuitive Feeling Perceiving


Loser - Introverted iNtuitive Thinking Perceiving

Crackpot - Introverted iNtuitive Thinking Judging


Clown - Extraverted Sensing Feeling Perceiving

Sap - Extraverted Sensing Feeling Judging

Commander - Extraverted Sensing Thinking Perceiving

Do Gooder - Extraverted Sensing Thinking Judging

Scumbag - Extraverted iNtuitive Feeling Perceiving

Busybody - Extraverted iNtuitive Feeling Judging

Prick - Extraverted iNtuitive Thinking Perceiving

Dictator - Extraverted iNtuitive Thinking Judging

Link: The Brutally Honest Personality Test written by UltimateMaster on OkCupid, home of the The Dating Persona Test

What I'm Reading update

Last night I went to the College bookstore to wait in line and get my copy of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. I didn't really WANT to drive the 12 miles from my house to the bookstore, but it won't be open tomorrow, we'd already paid for our copies, and Mountain Man has to be out of town all next week, so he wouldn't be able to get it till the next weekend. And I have no restraint when it comes to Harry Potter. I stayed up till 4 a.m. to finish the first one, and the others are similarly addicting. So we came home and read till 2 a.m. I have to say that it moves quickly, perhaps the most quickly of any of the books. Then again, she doesn't have a whole lot of space to wrap things up.

I've also joined a cool new service called Good Reads. It's a social bookmarking site where you list the books you've read, you review books, and you can share the books that others are reading. I've already got 3 friends that I've invited, and I have to say it's pretty addicting. You can link to it from the right bar on my blog. I've concentrated on pleasure reading now, but later I'll be posting the professional books I've read, some of which are damn cool.

Recipe for tonight's supper

1. Take a tiny zucchini, fresh from your friend's garden, slice it lengthwise, then slice it into bite-sized pieces.

2. Put in the pasta salad that you made last week. Mix well.

3. Return to the refrigerator for a half-hour (or as long as you can stand the wait).

4. Sprinkle individual serving with Parmesan cheese.

5. Eat. Marvel at how well the sweet crunch of the zucchini blends with the vinegar-based dressing, green peppers, and olives.

6. Smile as you think how lucky you are to have good friends!

Vatican issues 10 Commandments for drivers - CNN.com

I'n not Catholic, but I've often thought that we needed these for a long time. Many of them are ones that I practice already, like praying in the car. Vatican issues 10 Commandments for drivers - CNN.com

Lolcat

I'm fascinated by these Lolcat pictures. Anyone know where to find some good ones?

Why Nerds are Unpopular

This interesting article explains my high school career, and why life got ever so much better in college an afterward. I wouldn't go back and relive those years for all the money in the world! I'm not sure about his solution, but I don't think that more authenticity will hurt.

Historic river town has plenty to offer visitors

This interesting article from the Lebanon Reporter in Pennsylvania features my new hometown. I'll vouch for everything except the Holl's Chocolatier. Yes, their chocolate is WONDERFUL (all caps merited), but I've never been in their store. I'm going to have to go there to see it.

Trans-Allegheny Bookstore is also a joy for any booklover. The only thing that he forgot to mention is the cats that lounge in the reading area. Hey, come to think of it, that sounds like a perfect Saturday...eating chocolates while browsing fascinating old (and new) books, and sitting on a couch reading a book with a cat in my lap. You know, heaven sounds a lot lke that.

Schools weigh text alerts for crises - USATODAY.com

Schools weigh text alerts for crises - USATODAY.com

Another scare rattles Va. Tech campus - Yahoo! News

Another scare rattles Va. Tech campus - Yahoo! News

Bloggers on the Virginia Tech shootings. - By Christopher Beam - Slate Magazine

Bloggers on the Virginia Tech shootings. - By Christopher Beam - Slate Magazine