i'm too sexy for an update.

news from our World Desk (stolen from CNN):

44 year old schoolgirl assaulted in Japan.
Man divorces wife via text message on his mobile phone.
52 men in Egypt charged with bad praying and sodomy.

attached to the grouping of stories about Milosevic is a photo of a man holding a sign that reads "Send Him to Texas". i'm wondering if the gentleman in the photo is indicating that he wants Smilodon executed, or if he just thinks a trip to Texas would be punishment enough.

i shouldn't make fun of Texas, since it appears that i'll be spending my vacation there. i'll try to talk Mikey into a detour into Louisiana (who wouldn't want to see the world's largest collection of wrought iron?), but just in case, can anyone tell me what's in Texas besides the Alamo and a heavily-polluted-yet-under-water Houston?

Government advises caution with holiday fireworks.

this is a complete reversal of previous years' advice for negligence and recklessness.

woo hoo! two of the 10 most dangerous intersections in the United States are in Tulsa OK! and #6 is the area where the one i was involved in on Sunday occurred.

you know it will be an unusual day when you wake up with a craving for egg drop soup.

Anthony Stewart Head was interviewed by UK magazine Impact about the upcoming spin-off and here's his response: "The idea is to do one story per show. I talked about the possibility of doing one one story over two or three, but logistically that would be hard to blend and monitor the writing. You can have background stuff continuing though, in terms of production values and the attention given to it. It was driven by personal themes at the core of the show. They are all in place. As soon as Joss said it, I knew it could happen. It'll all be down to revenue. How much can it generate? Will Fox be remotely interested in putting money into it? If not, will they license it to the BBC? Would it find its way back to America? All that would be logical, but it isn't always down to logic! On paper, it all seems to work well. But as I say to Joss "Allow me to be the sceptic". He's agreed...but I'm the one that really wants it to happen too". Thanks to 'Tequila Mockingbird' [and Dark Horizons]

for a search referal that's just totally wrong on so many levels, go here.

i became a man without realizing it.

i've had the same half dozen strands of hair on my chest since high school. this morning, while towelling off after my shower, i looked down to see dozens, nay, scores of the black curly wisps, no longer centered in the center of my chest, but spread all across it. i thought at first that Black Cat had been sleeping on me again, but these hairs were attached to me. i don't know where all this hair came from, and i cannot be called hirsute, but i'm going to take some pride in my new manliness, and show it off by leaving my top three buttons unbuttoned and not wearing an undershirt. until my boss tells me stop, at least. i'll tell him to gaze into the chest hair and feels the power of my masculinity. yay me for growing up!

of course, right after seeing that the hair on my chest had popped up so suddenly, i immediately checked my back too. thankfully, nothing has popped up there. i don't think i'm ready to be that masculine yet.

in one of the Star Trek movies, one of the characters explains the origin of the word 'sabotage' as, basically, Dutch workers protesting automation by flinging their woooden shoes (sabot) into the machinery to foul it up. so, when i ran into the word 'cabotage', i was so happy, and thought our language so wonderful to actually have a word to name the act of flinging cabbage into machinery. but i'm wrong. that's not what it means at all.

people who buy a house in a floodplain should not get all pissed off when the house floods.

homoousia.

what a great word. look at all those vowels, yet not a single e. i think this is where the other vowels get their revenge on e for being not only the most popular vowel, but also one of the most popular letters at all. exclusionary bastards.

it seems that my meds also have a Viagra-like side effect, which really isn't a good thing while at work.

winning is not an option for me. i can either be in pain, or take my medication and feel nausea (the other side effects, such as feeling loopy and spacing out every ten minutes or so, don't bother me).

i am now also an activist for preventing the elderly from driving. i went to pick up my prescriptions from the apothecary (i like that word. pharmacist sounds like it should be a synonym for 'ranch-hand'), and was nearly hit by an elderly man running a red light. i've decided that anyone older than me should not be permitted to drive. neither should anyone younger than me (damned kids). in fact, no one other than me should be permitted to drive because i am, apparently, the only sane and sensible driver out there.

yes! yesyesyeseyesyesyesyesyesyes! E! Online says the Region 1 Buffy complete first seasons DVD box sets will be out this fall! yippee! i should try to figure out how to use the DVD player before then.

Gremlins and Goonies are supposed to be coming soon too.

some words i thought i'd never see in a single sentence: "The Chris Rock/Anthony Hopkins comedy actioneer." ugh.

Max is right about the cuteness factor in those photos, but what happens if the predator trying to get that little harvest mouse is a dog? won't the dog get all excited about the tennis ball, take it home, and try to get little Billy and Sally to toss the ball for a game of fetch? what of the mice then? i foresee great (mouse) tragedy soon.

Max is wrong about some things though (poisonous reptiles notwithstanding): i am here to attest to the fact that the great cubicle mazes of Corporate America do exist, as i am lost within.

terrence is safe driver.

terrence obeys traffic laws (terrence is flipped off for driving speed limit).

terrence stops when traffic signal is red.

other drivers don't always do the same.

especially nearly-blind seventy-four year old women.

engine of woman's car is now sitting in passenger seat.

terrence's car has pieces hanging off. and cracking. and crumpling.

terrence's back, shoulder and neck hurt. a lot.

doctor says, 'Nothing serious.'

he gave terrence lots of medication.

good medication.

medication with a hefty street value.

terrence is happy.