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I'm feeling mildly icky the last few days. Not terrible, just not up to par. I suspect there's a stomach thing floating around the area; I haven't been hungry at all (oh so rare!) yesterday and today.
And all I really feel like doing is sitting on the couch and re-watching Batman Begins.

Instead I've been reading up on CSS, trying to learn a few things. Also I've been catching up on email *shock gasp*. If I owe you correspondence, check your inboxes soon!

Anyone on IM today? I feel like wasting time. Yahoo and AOL username is the same as livejournal. I'm absurdly shy and the likelihood of me bounding up and saying hello is nil, but if you ping me I'm happy to chat.

what you should do right now...

Go read Joel Shurkin's latest blog which discusses recent findings which suggest cannabis may have broad anti-cancer properties.

More from Joel Shurkin

Is your kid whiny, unpleasant, insecure? Don't fret. He can eventually get a job on Fox News—According to a study in the Journal of Research into Personality [not posted], disagreeable and insecure kids grow up to be conservatives. Confident, self-reliant children grow up to be liberals. But you know all that, right? Back in the 1960s, a husband and wife team, Jack and Jeanne Block at Berkeley began tracking more than 100 nursery school kids to study their personality. Using teachers and assistants, the Blocks surveyed the kids' personalities. Politics never entered the picture.

A few decades later, Block (his wife had since died) went back to the kids and looked at their personalities. The unpleasant and rigid kids turned into rigid young people who hewed closely to traditional gender roles and were uncomfortable with ambiguity. And politically, they were conservatives. Confident kids turned out to bright, non-conformists. The girls were extroverts, the young men a little introverted. And both sexes were politically liberal.

Actually, this is not the first time similar research produced similar findings. In 2003, a Stanford researcher, John Jost, concluded that people who are dogmatic, fearful, intolerant of ambiguity and uncertainty, and who crave order, are likely to tend conservative. He got a congressional investigation as a result, no doubt from guys where were really brats when they were babies.

like whoa

Just finished watching La Mala Educacion. I don't know whether I want to cry, get drunk, or hug a teddy bear. It got a little hammy at the end but there was some affecting performances throughout. Go Almodovar.