Why I Can't Follow Ikea Directions
This is the label on the step-stool in [info]baiku's kitchen: Here's what it looks like it's saying to me: Large heavy boxes are attracted to this stool. This stool cannot read books. No, not even lots of books.
Next Semester
The time has come (the walrus said) for me to choose a class to take this summer. According to the GA State scheduling site, AL 8330 Intercultural Communication (Req) T/Th 1:50-4:35 An overview of intercultural communication,
Women and Investing
An excellent little blog post at Chris Dillow’s shows up one of the ways in which our EQSQ personality tests relate to the real world. We’re finding, when we go looking in other places, that the personality tests’ division (or rather
Stationary Engineers
No, these are not simply engineers who stand still: rather more is required of them than that. Actually, this is the job that my son in law has just taken at the new Wembley Stadium in London, England. Rather than the sort of engineers
Speech Language Pathologists
Or as they are often called, speech therapists, are those who help those to either gain or regain the powers of comprehensible speech. The lack of this can come from one of many reasons: injury, stroke, mental retardation or other
Men, Women and Friendships
An interesting piece in the London Times about the different ways in which men and women make friends (or don’t, as the case may be). It won’t be all that much of a surprise to those who know the results of our EQSQ personality tests to
Social Workers
Working out where social workers come from in respect of our EQSQ personality tests should not be difficult. Social work is all about helping people, whether they be those with temporary difficulties or with more permanent ones,
"Spirit is the fire, turn the world around"
"Try not to make it sound like Handel on steroids, ok?" "I feel like a mad scientist about to blow something up--and I think I like it." I never thought I'd say this, but I am burned out on choir. I felt this way last spring,
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Banchet Flowers @ Vivre
Maybe I’m just the last to know but I had no idea Vivre carried flowers from floral designer Banchet. Such great arrangements… love those huge peonies. Banchet’s website shows a whole lot more including her amazing space in New York’s

AIEEE! Fort Polk’s CajunFest just around the corner The Town Talk
FORT POLK, La. - As Fort Polk’s Cajun neighbors might say, it’s time for ya’ll to “pass a good time.” Cajuns, descendants of French Canadian immigrants, are renowned worldwide for their great regional cuisine and “joie de vivre” -- literally, joy of life.
Do self-help books actually help? Waco Tribune-Herald
By Wendy Gragg
To be frank, this fete was fabuleuse Tri-Valley Herald
LAST SATURDAY NIGHT was simply superb, swirling with the petticoats of the cancan girls, spinning like the windmill atop the Moulin Rouge and murmuring faint remembrances of Cole Porter musicals.
He's a smoothie operator Wyoming Tribune-Eagle
a mortician.
The Cajuns are coming Tallahassee Democrat
Cajun culture is a lot like a roux.
Cat finds pleasures Akron Beacon Journal
Q: I adopted my 11-year-old indoor calico, Emma, as a 6- or 7-week old. She has several behaviors I am wondering about. She races me to the kitchen sink each morning and sits in the sink till I turn the faucet on a slow stream. Then she drinks.
Courier News Online - CLINTON: 'Fancy Nancy' party at book shop Bridgewater Courier News
The Clinton Book, 33 Main St., welcomes New York-based author Jane O'Connor and Southern California-based illustrator Robin Preiss Glasser to the bookshop on 4:30-6:30 p.m. March 27.
Movie Review: 'The Lives of Others' Louisville Courier-Journal
"The Lives of Others" is a miracle of a film that manages to be both subtle and intense at the same time. It confidently paints a claustrophobic picture of East Berlin in the mid-1980s through the relationship between a playwright, his actress-girlfriend and the secret police captain assigned to spy on them.
Gators' Noah Set For 2nd Season WJBF-TV Augusta
Joakim Noah sank into a comfy chair a few weeks ago in Gainesville and shuffled through the stack of envelopes in his hands.
Gators' Noah Set For 2nd Season The Tampa Tribune
ATLANTA - Joakim Noah sank into a comfy chair a few weeks ago in Gainesville and shuffled through the stack of envelopes in his hands. The University of Florida forward glanced down at the letters as he described the hardest part of his relatively newfound fame: the need to occasionally turn down children's autograph requests.vivre: savoir vivre | mieux vivre | savoir vivre | mieux vivre | vivre