(no subject)

I got so much done this weekend! The costume is finished, praise the gods, and I'm even mostly pleased with it. Have to add the hooks on the belt, but I'm waiting until I'm not quite so bloaty because I know over the next few weeks I'm going to lose a bit of weight from all the dancing and I don't want to have to keep changing the damn thing. But the worst is done and there's plenty of time for little tweaks later one, yay!

Work continues to be interesting...big meeting tomorrow with the entire company. I'm a bit nervous about that, but excited too. My horoscope seems to think everything is going to go pretty well though the Tarot has been a bit more hesitant. I am choosing to be optimistic.

Finally broke down and bought myself a shredder and got through piles and piles of stacked up mail and bills yesterday. Filed the remaining smaller pile away and was very pleased with myself. Got the apartment cleaned up, all my laundry done, a long postponed trip to the post office (automated shipping machines are the greatest invention since sliced bread, I swear going in on a Sunday afternoon with nobody there and just getting everything labeled and ready to go is the best!), a quick swing by the Quilting Bee (ah, the fabric, 'tis so gorgeous...expensive, but gorgeous), and even a nice long walk in before crashing for the night. Did some reading and relaxing last night, and sacked out early.

Also managed to get in some social time, which is always good, even if I did miss class on Saturday, which is not so good. Toe feels marginally better, though, it only hurts now when I walk on it a little too much. Keep your fingers crossed for me that I can make it to class tomorrow night. I really don't want to miss too many rehearsals right now.

First thing I read this morning was that Peter Jennings had died, I didn't even know he had lung cancer...

Excuse me, I just need to go lie down now

Before my head explodes from the sheer stupidity of this

A national anti-abortion group yesterday served the administrators of California's stem cell institute with a federal lawsuit seeking to stop their work on the grounds that the civil rights of frozen embryos are violated by stem cell research.

The lawsuit was delivered during a a monthly meeting of the institute's oversight committee at the University of California San Diego. Around the same time it arrived, committee Chairman Robert Klein was announcing that several lawsuits filed in state court had been consolidated to be heard by one judge, in one county, on an expedited basis.

That litigation has blocked the sale of government-backed bonds to fund the institute, which is supposed to award $300 million annually for stem cell research.

The federal lawsuit, filed by the National Association for the Advancement of Preborn Children, could now further delay the sale of bonds.
[...]
The suit was filed on behalf of Mary Scott Doe, a fictitious embryo produced by in vitro fertilization and then frozen and put into storage.


via Pandagon

If they can sue on behalf of a ficitious embryo, can I sue on behalf of unicorns, goblins and trolls? Every time a scientist works on stem cells a unicorn dies, you know...

Intelligent Design bitch slapped and sent home crying

via Kungfu Monkey
( Again, our motto at Kung Fu Monkey: 'Everybody who wants to live in the 21st century over here. Everybody who wants to live in the 1800's over there. Good. Thanks. Good luck with that... )