I am a little booger factory who can't do the most basic tasks without wheezing as if I were a geriatric old lady.

Also my head hurts also there is a grant due in a week, and the best sentence I can construct at the moment is like one of those grade three answers, ie; the question is "How does your project address participatory learning?" and my answer is: "Because we all work together, and there are five apples left if Susie eats three of eight"

All I can remember is Mrs. Fisher (grade 3 teacher) saying "Never begin a sentence with 'Because'" then it all becomes a haze of words.

Thanks Simon ( I sure do wish you had a blog or like a page or something, it's weird that I can't link love you ever - you provide so much useful data).

Sounds like Heather Mallick was on of the kids who teased me about my footwear.

What gives people? Since when is it okay *under any circumstances* to suggest that a woman you disagree with has a “toned-down version of the porn actress look.” Imagine it wasn't a woman you felt naturally superior to Ms. Mallick, say it was someone from your own 'set' would you say that?? I bet not.

That's kind of how I am interpreting the whole Sarah Palin love her her then leave her situation. My friend Victor got me all caught up on the latest pallywag and she's basically done. Check out this Huffington post piece Jack Cafferty: If Sarah Palin Being One Heartbeat Away "Doesn't Scare The Hell Out Of You, It Should" and then Get some interview clips from Palin's debacle with Katie Couric.

Finally watch Tina Fey's satire that is more or less imitation and be disturbed.

Here's why I say disturbed. While I was watching Fey do a dead-to-rights impersonation I realized Palin's gender/class origins are a big factor in her plummet from grace. Americans ( or maybe just the American media) do not like down-home ladies who get too big for their boots, Palin is basically a political Brittany Spears, a trailer-town ingenue who gets put on a pedestal and then pulled down by the same set of people who liked her initially for being 'one of them'. Politically it mimics the fate of so many down-home girls who get jilted by undependable irresponsible swains, Palin has gone from he object of media affection to the target of it's rage. The media should be focused on the strategists who cynically manipulated voter emotion by choosing an unprepared candidate on the virtue of her personality/gender and yes, class origins, not her qualifications. Once politics as marketing put an unprepared ill-equipped person in shotgun, I wonder whether the same factors made it easier for the media to justify their nasty reporting? There are so many prior models (Brittany, Roseanne Barr to name two) in celebrity culture after all.

I recently took a ride-share from Montreal to Toronto. The driver was a Chinese-Canadian engineer, about my age, who's boyfriend worked for Bombardier. Her other passengers were an Israeli geologist visiting Canada to do some work named Gior, et moi.

We had some unusual discussions, the engineer, the geologist and I. Primarily about Judaism, because once I told Gior my heritage, it was, as they say, all over but the crying. Suffice to say he and I had very different views on the state of Isreal. I took great pains not to share my views, because who wants to be trapped in a car with two squabbling Jews? I thought the engineer was very nice and she certainly didn't sign on for supper at the Fishbiens when she agreed to give two perfect strangers a lift.

Anyways when Gior and I weren't being argumentative little kakers, the engineer would say that she really admired the Jewish people for creating such a supportive culture for each other. I had mixed feelings about her assertion in the moment, thinking: "Are we supportive of each other or do we just have bad boundaries and poor social skills? Gior you wanna field that one or should I?" But whether or not Jews are supportive or just way too in each others business, The Great Schlep is a great and hilarious 'movement' endorsed by none other then Sarah Silverman, and it proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that the Jews do have your back, and also are a bunch of nosy nudgy noodniks.

"The Great Schlep aims to have Jewish grandchildren visit their grandparents in Florida, educate them about Obama, and therefore swing the crucial Florida vote in his favor. Don’t have grandparents in Florida? Not Jewish? No problem! You can still become a schlepper and make change happen in 2008, simply by talking to your relatives about Obama."

The best line: How do I go? Call up your grandparents and tell them to get the couch ready.

This is why being Jewish is both hilarious, wonderful, and annoying all at once.

Yeah.. this morning this afternoon very slow, not sure if it's that the red army will soon be marching over the horizon or because yesterday the brain doctor made me like really kick my own ass. (I am still kicking it in slow motion over here). What am I wasting time with then since clearly I am having trouble with focus?