What's a girl to do?

The County Fair begins on Friday and there are just so many exciting events that I don't know what day I should go!!!


Here are my top three choices, but they're all on different days:




Which day should I go? A little help please!!

Slang Project - Entry No. 94

to follow through, v., to have an unexpected bowel movement while passing gas or immediately afterwards

Small Town Excitement

At our local mall, we have a Borders Express. The only advantage of a Borders Express over a regular Borders Store is that the Express always has a "Literature Classics" section. I like to browse this section.



Today I found that they had 4 copies of the novel Ethan Frome. I tried to muffle my laughter as all the copies were incorrectly shelved under F for Frome rather than under W for Wharton. Can you believe it! Someone thought the book was named Edith Wharton and written by Ethan Frome!

When I could finally control myself, I went up to the help desk and asked the lady if she could help me find a book I was looking for. I told her it was titled "George Eliot" and that its author was Silas Marner.

After a few keystrokes she informed me of my "error." I told her that I was certain that the book was called "George Eliot" and there was no mistaking it.

She said they had the book Silas Marner written by George Eliot, but that was all. Would I like to see that book, she asked as she was already coming out from behind the counter to lead me to the "Classic Literature" section.

I told her that she was being rude. I asked if making a sale was all she cared about because she obviously didn't care whether I was getting the book I was interested in. I didn't want some other stupid book, yet there she was trying to trick me into buying it. I told her I'd be taking my business elsewhere and stormed out.

Small town life can be pretty intense sometimes. I hope they learned their lesson!

Dolphins may be highly intelligent...

...but they pose no imminent threat to the inevitability of world domination by humans. We finally got one!!!

LONDON, England (Reuters) -- The long-threatened Yangtze River dolphin in China is probably extinct, according to an international team of researchers who said this would mark the first whale or dolphin to be wiped out due to human activity.

Entire Article: http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/asiapcf/08/08/china.dolphin.reut/index.html

Cetacean intelligence is no match for human ingenuity. We need not live in fear of Odontoceti any longer. Mankind is king!

Slang Project - Entry No. 93

ass flowers, n., hemorrhoids

Latest Marijuana Study

A recent marijuana study:

Smoking one cannabis joint is as harmful to a person's lungs as having up to five cigarettes, according to research published on Tuesday.

Of course, that was the lead in and the line that will no doubt be quoted by DARE and other anti-drug crusaders. Actually the study found:

The effect on the lungs of each joint was equivalent to smoking between 2.5 and five cigarettes in one go.

Not as bad sounding as the first figure, but still not too healthy.

Upon reflection, something seems off here. Of course I have no experience with marijuana, but my understanding based on movies and rap lyrics is that usually a person does not smoke an entire joint by him/herself in one sitting. A smoker who smokes a pack a day would be equivalent to a stoner who smokes 4 to 8 joints in a day. I've known some stoners, but 8 joints seems really hardcore. Maybe I'm just naive...

The entire news article can be found here: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20052489/