I went ahead and scheduled a consultation with the corneal specialist who would be performing my surgery, and will be seeing him on the 28th of this month. The only problem is that ideally I'm not supposed to wear my contacts for 72 hours prior to the consultation, and at the moment I have no idea where my glasses might be.
11:30 AM EDT

Thursday, December 13, 2001
Dubya checks out Reba McEntire's boobs.
07:34 PM EDT

I have to admit that my first thought upon reading the headline of this story was that the dad's ashes were in the package. Way to be pessimistic, Heather.
05:18 PM EDT

I'm glad that Rick Berman doesn't care that I think that the Enterprise theme song sucks. I keep expecting the singer ("European superstar Russell Watson?" Is he bigger than David Hasselhoff?) to segue into "Man in Motion."
05:16 PM EDT

This story gives a whole new meaning to "holding a grudge."
05:09 PM EDT

There's got to be something amiss when a kid receives four jury duty notices and I, at age 31, have never been called.
05:08 PM EDT

At least she didn't bite the kid.
11:11 AM EDT

Name that Man-Breast!
12:06 AM EDT

I heart The Onion.
12:01 AM EDT

Wednesday, December 12, 2001
Apparently, a lot of guys think Pink is hot, but dang, this outfit is just...horrific.
11:06 PM EDT

I don't know whether other people read it, but I can say with some certainty that the book in question was *definitely* around when I was a preteen, because it featured what seemed to me at the time to be a pretty explicit sex scene.
11:00 PM EDT

*sings* LIIIIIIIIT-i-gation! Litigation! Litigation! Litigaaaaaaaation!
10:57 PM EDT

I am wearing a custom-fitted pair of cranky pants today. Actually, it's more like Morose Pants. I'm in a weepy kind of frame of mind, and I'm not sure why. Leaving for my luncheon in a little bit, so hopefully that will help. The weather's certainly not adding any joy.
10:55 AM EDT

Tuesday, December 11, 2001
Via Boing Boing: The Most Professional Complaint ever.
09:47 PM EDT

People, this is just WRONG. The cat pees! It PEES!
07:30 PM EDT

Does anyone know why baby aspirin is 81 mg? Not 80, not 85, but 81.

06:54 PM EDT

I get an almost scandalous amount of pleasure out of tracking packages.

06:44 PM EDT

Car insurance in New Jersey is a freaking huge racket of ripoff artists. Hi, please take my FIRSTBORN as a downpayment!
01:30 PM EDT

Blah blah blah Christmas Muzakcakes.

11:36 AM EDT

Can I just mention that I love the holiday season? One of our outside counsel is taking us here for lunch tomorrow. Dave and I have driven by this place so many times, and I'm really looking forward to going.
09:11 AM EDT

So, Sarah, when are you getting that nose piercing?
08:30 AM EDT

Monday, December 10, 2001
I'm practically frothing at the mouth to see how this case is decided. Basically, the 6th US Circuit Court of Appeals is hearing arguments over the constitutionality of the University of Michigan's affirmative action policy, and the landmark case of Regents of the University of CA vs. Bakke is being revisited; in that case, the court split 4-4, and Justice Powell wrote only for himself in the opinion. His opinion stated that race could be used as one factor in admissions, but because of the split of the court, the future of its holding is uncertain.

I heard one tidbit on the radio this morning, which said that the University uses a scoring system for applications in which 150 points gains you entry into the school. If you get a perfect SAT score, you get 12 points. However, being a racial minority alone gets you 20.

I make no secret of the fact that I'm anti-affirmative action. I think that the concept, while having good intentions, was flawed at the time that Bakke was decided, and I think it's still flawed. Public instititutions should not be able to practice discrimination in any capacity, and that's what's happening here.
02:21 PM EDT

I am Matched Phrenology Busts. I enlighten Norwegian glass bacteria with richly sponged hardwood thought processes. Four ripe metronomes ridicule my lucky castle of relief. My auspicious mercury rides level coral. What erudite spheres reveal strata? The Utterly Surreal Test

12:28 PM EDT

This story sounds entirely too much like the plot of a low-budget Aaron Spelling series.
12:02 PM EDT

I have so many things to do today, and almost none of them have to do with work. I need to get quotes on homeowners and car insurance, call the cleaning people to tell them not to come again until we're ready to move, draft a letter to the landlady about our leaving and our security deposit, since she hasn't bothered to respond to the one we left her on December 1, send in a claim form for my health care reimbursement account, find someone to do my hair before the holiday party on Saturday, and, oh, have a meeting with my boss at 11 to go over everything that's transpired in the two weeks he was out of town.

Gah.

10:14 AM EDT

Sunday, December 9, 2001
To be honest, my parents get more of these kinds of holiday letters than we do.
12:14 PM EDT

Is there anyone out there who can explain to me why Americans call giving someone the finger "flipping the bird?" And please don't give me the "pluck yew"/Agincourt story, because it's not true, even though it seems to be everywhere on the Net.

A grateful geek awaits your helpful responses.
01:42 AM EDT