New Planet Could Be Earthlike, Scientists Say - New York Times

A planet outside our solar system that just may be earth-like enough to support life.

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AAAUGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH\!!!!!

Sorry, just had to get that off my chest.  I think I might need to go beat up some poor, inanimate object here in a minute because I'm still feeling a bit homicidal.

Joint Security Area

Joint Security Area,
originally uploaded by *Hiro.

Dreaming of summer...

When it's gross and rainy out.  I tried on this dress at Target today and fell in love.  It's light, airy, flirty...  Note also that there's blue polka-dot piping on the edges and the sash reverses to blue polka-dots.  I will have to keep an eye out to see if it goes on sale.  I also tried on this one, which was an unmitigated disaster.  It's too short-waisted (on already-short-waisted me), and the pleats are directly over the hipbones (and in the corresponding location in the back), which just makes your hips look even bigger.  For a top-heavy person trying to balance out their chest, this would be a good thing.  For me, this is a very, very bad thing.  I should have also tried on this one, which is very similar to the first but with a slightly different cut to the bodice.

I also found a very 1970s blue hobo bag in the clearance section, but I didn't love it fourteen dollars worth.

I need to remember to wear heels when I go shopping.  I wouldn't have gotten the full effect of the dress if I had been standing there barefoot.  (Despite what I told TRex about not wearing sandals in the rain, I was out in my fun wedges for the first time.)

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Silly spelling bee game on the odwalla website... mostly noteworthy 'cause it's hosted by an animated Ken Jennings.

(Mostly for the amusement of , though she's probably seen it on his blog already anyway.)

(It should also be noted that I can now spell "embarrass" - which knocked me out of the school spelling be in ... sixth grade? Seventh grade? Probably 7th.)

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