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Rain Rain Rain...rain.
I have a yen to build an ark.

Back to civilization, and it is even wetter here then it was there. (port townsend)
My sister is pimping girl scout cookies, anyone want to buy some from a perky 13 year old who likes to cut open animals and dissect them, all while professing a deep love for the colour pink and Steve McQueen movies.
Yes I created a monster.

Today is my day off, and I am doing a whole lotta laundry, cleaning the apartment and generally helping the flat recover from several British people living there.

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My mother and I were driving in the never-stopping rain yesterday when it was announced upon NPR that the girl from Utah (Elizabeth Smart) had been found alive. It left my mother in awe. She said that it is one of those dreams come true for parents in such nightmare situations.
It sound macabre to say this, but we had generally assumed that she was probably raped and murdered and left in the desert. Sad state of affairs, but...it is comforting to see things turn out differently.
Imagine the sensation/feeling her parents felt when they received the news that she was okay....

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the second full season of blackbooks arrived on dvd. All the way from Australia! It took several years to finally arrived. Damn it was great!!!!!

bothersome subjects.

As many of you people are well aware, there has been a bit of a strange occurence at Capitol Hill. Originally started in a restaurant in North Carolina, they renamed a common food (french fries) with the name of Freedom Fries. The congressional cafeteria has picked up the trend. Such an action recalls the days of World War One, when saurkraut was renamed liberty cabbage. Everyone began to drop anything with a german assocation. Even the English Royal Family, which was mostly made up of German blood (no one likes to talk about it but, Elizabeth II was the first truly English queen in nearly 200 years) changed its family name to Windsor.

First of all I highly doubt the french are offended that we don't want to associate their name with some of our favorite unhealthy foods. (fries, french toast..etc) I wonder if they are secretly enjoying the childish actions of a few supposedly adult members of the civil service.
I would love to ask, what will renaming deep-fried potatoes really do in regards to the strained relations between the United States and French Gov't?

"Jacque, did you 'ear, those yankees renamed the beloved fry after something else?"
"No! That is it, cave in, let's form an alliance to get those Iraqi's."

We could possibly go into war, quite shortly. In such a case, many innocent people (yes innocent people) are going to be killed.
And this is how time is being spent....renaming fried potatoes.

I would sincerely hope people are busy enough to be thinking about other things.
So many lives could be lost.
What a pity.