Since I got all dark and angsty with that last post, here’s something way more fun. Again, I’m stealing shamelessly from Feministe. Jill’s dead-on that it’s the greatest narcissistic procrastination tool EVER.
Below the fold: my results, compared to a photo from last week.

These were all within 1% of each other for a match. […]

Updates below.
Damn, I think I need to form a band just so I can use that name. I’d better get right on it teaching Maya guitar. Or maybe she could be the drummer.
Via Feministe, this suggestion made me shake my head and laugh (something I do more every day, it would seem):
Is there […]

We went grocery shopping this evening, and as we waited to check out, I indulged in the guilty pleasure of scanning the tabloid covers. Just after I rolled my eyes at the booklet Astrology for your Cat (really, it was on the end of the aisle, complete with an adorable Himalaya gazing out from […]

Now that’s more like it — reply from a different contact.
Now *this* is how to tell someone why you decided to send them an email:
Thanks for the reply. I was really impressed by your profile. My masterpiece is someone such as yourself who has beauty as well as an intellectual side. Physical attraction is only […]

Head over to Intueri, and enjoy a banquet of fromage. Maria commissioned several of her fellow med-bloggers to write a short story:
Write a super cheesy, super dramatic, and super nauseating piece related to clinical medicine. Make your readers roll their eyes, groan out loud, and rush to the nearest bathroom with your histrionic work […]

Okay, I’ll ‘fess up. I decided that if I’m spending any of my energy on dating, I might as well take a broad focus about it and make my match profile visible again also. The one caveat: I’m not going on the hunt, but rather just looking at what comes my way.
Of course, […]

As I recently wrote, I’ve been on a dating hiatus. I’m easing up on that a bit (already?), and taking up my father’s offer for six months on eHarmony. So far, I’m finding that eH has a (much) broader audience now than it did in the early days, when it was almost exclusively […]

Since I’m usually on the viewfinder side of the camera, I thought I’d poke a nose (and an eye) out to say hello. If you care, you can see the rest of my face here.

I couldn’t pass this one up — click the image:

h/t: BitchPhD

From wordsmith.org:
This week’s theme: fear and desire.
theomania (thee-o-MAY-nee-uh, -MAIN-yuh) noun
The belief that one is God or specially chosen by God on a mission.
[From Greek theos (god) + -mania (excessive enthusiasm or craze).]
This mania often strikes rulers of nations and is highly recommended when planning to attack other nations. It soothes conscience, clears the […]

I’ll update this as new material shows up.
Funny, for a gal who did manage to exclusively breastfeed my child for six months, non-exclusively (solid food added) until 15 months, this topic really pushes my buttons. It’s not because I’m an activist one way or another where breastfeeding is concerned (though I’d encourage any mother […]

Faced with a mountain of evidence demonstrating the significant health benefits of breastfeeding, a consortium of health experts and U.S. government officials is making an aggressive push for paid maternity leaves; longer maternity leaves comparable to the recommended length of exclusive breastfeeding; exemptions from welfare-to-work programs and welfare time limits for nursing mothers; insurance and/or […]

The board where I initially posted this is very progressive (what an oasis in Colorado Springs!), so you might imagine I got some pushback about my first (short) post. In addition, I wasn’t clear enough in my first post that my black box comment was an *addition* to the commentary at Feministe, not the […]

This post and the next one were originally written as a post on a local bulletin board — but I think the topic is important enough to cross-post here.
I think it’s fairly safe to assume that most of the moms on this board are pro-breastfeeding. Yes, breastmilk is what nature has designed as the best […]

(Would somebody please help me with this title? I can’t for the life of me think of how a Canadian might say it. Stupid, I know.
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Thanks, Arwen — a gen-u-ine Canadian helped me retitle.)

You’re Canada!
People make fun of you a lot, but they’re stupid because you’ve got a much better life than they […]