Today is a good day to go through my referer logs.

The Top 10 Search Terms:
vlad taltos
html clock
female fantasy authors
random quiz
centipedes
plush germs
taltos
grass jelly
pr0n
merovingian line

Okay, the centipedes bother me, because I HATE centipedes. (shudder)
Also, I’m certain that people looking for actual pr0n were quite disappointed by the flower pr0n.

Now for the odder things:

male chest
Please go here: See the category “Covers Gone Wild”

reading/short passages about secrets on shoes
That’s me. International woman of mystery and secrets on shoes.

fairy tale told the opposite way
Told the opposite way of what? Start with the moral and end with “Once upon a time”?

pictures of euthanasia requests
Okay, that’s screwed up.

funny folk tales that no one has heard of before
If no one has heard them before, then they’re not folktales.

fairy tales translated to italian
Why are you searching in English?

what do a photosynthesis really do
A photosynthesis is the little man that lives in plants and changes them into vegetables.

phoenix guards if i
…completed my search terms I’d get better results

www. holle kitty partying.
Is this a typo or a perversion?

folktales that involve real folktales not just make believe
Maybe you’re not understanding what a folktale is.

spinach police uniforms
That must be one of those new, city trends.

Here’s an interesting study:

Finger length predicts physically aggressive personalities

I particularly liked the quote from the author of the paper.

Dr. Peter Hurd initially thought the idea was “a pile of hooey,” but he changed his mind when he saw the data.

However, the research only holds true for men.

Either I’m losing my mind, or I’m listening to an instrumental Ozzy Ozbourne cover on XM’s Beyond Jazz channel.

Maybe it’s just a sign that I should go take a long hot shower and try to relax some more.

The Grand Tour (2004) by Patricia C. Wrede and Caroline Stevermer

If you’ve already read Sorcery and Cecelia, then you’ll need little or no encouragement to pick up The Grand Tour. Cousins Kate and Cecelia are taking the grand tour of Europe on their honeymoons. Within almost no time, they are caught up in intrigue involving ancient magical artifacts, and a secret group that was active during Napoleon’s reign as Emperor of France.

Read More about The Grand Tour

This is far more interesting than I had initially expected it to be: Movie Timeline. What is movies were true? What would the timeline of the past and future look like?

This is amusing. In a very, very strange way.

Also took me a minute to get, the first time I looked at it.

But it’s also strange. So don’t say I didn’t warn you.

Andy send me a link to Nemester.

You can’t sign up yet, but when you can, all things considered, I probably should. Just to keep track, you know.

Good Luck Gina!

It’s been a tough 5 1/2 years, but we’ve worked hard and managed somehow.

So in closing, one of my favorite exchanges:

We were explaining to a new graduate assistant how, because of the layout of the lab, we spent more time with each other than we did with our husbands.

Gina: We spend so much time together…
Michelle: …we even finish each others sentences.
Gina: It’s like being married…
Michelle: …only without the sex.
Gina: It’s exactly like being married.

So I’m not just losing a co-worker, I’m losing a wife.

Dear Eliot Spitzer,

Fuck you.

Appalachia is not an insult. It’s my home.

I never did get around to posting pictures of my bookshelf. Mostly because that would involve a LOT of pictures, since I have a lot of books.

So for your amusement, here’s my computer desk at home. Just to give you a tiny peek into my life. The part off to the left where the light is shining? That’s the table where I continually lose the battle of “keeping clean.” However. since you can’t see it, then for all intents and purposes, it is clean. Ha!
(more…)

Me: I’ve often thought that if someone tied me up…
Gina: WHAT?!
Me: …that I’d be mute. Because I talk with my hands so much.
Gina: That’s not where I thought you were going with that.

The Farthest Shore (1972) Ursula K. Le Guin

The final book in The Earthsea Trilogy, as A Wizard of Earthsea tells of the start of Ged’s life as a wizard, The Farthest Shore closes his adventures.

Read More about The Farthest Shore

I just decided that the song most UNlike my life right now?

Warren Zevon’s “Lawyers, Guns, and Money”

If only I could get the song out of my head, where it’s acting like it wants to be a soundtrack to things that aren’t happening to me.